Rhiannon Phillips | The Seattle Collegian With the season of love blooming around us, one question arises: Is Valentine’s Day overhyped or over-romanticized? The moment New Year’s Day passes, Valentine’s decorations seem to appear overnight. People go above and beyond to find a partner—or to ask their established partner to be their Valentine—with extravagant ideas and grand gestures. Valentine’s Day feels…
Kate Megathlin | The Seattle Collegian I am not a metal person—neither in musical taste nor in physical composition. I’ve made my stance on this known before, but to elaborate, my taste in metal mostly vacillates between Rage Against the Machine and the 2016 “Doom” original game soundtrack, so take my opinions on the genre with a grain of salt. Thankfully,…
Danika Djuanda | The Seattle Collegian Marking one year since the start of President Donald Trump’s second term, Seattle demonstrators joined a nationwide strike Tuesday, Jan. 20, answering a call to be “ungovernable” in the face of what organizers called an “escalating fascist threat.” At 2 p.m., protesters gathered on the plaza at Seattle Central College for the “Free America Walkout.”…
Satrn Life in Seattle is objectively different for each individual who lives here, though the struggles each person faces—or rather, the root of them—are much more similar than they seem. Student life in Seattle, for example, although it can vary from person to person, has some universal truths. College is expensive. Most students work to cover…
Kate Megathlin | The Seattle Collegian You know, I relate to A$AP Rocky in a lot of ways. We may be complete opposites in demographic, class, race, sexuality, and gender, and I may not be devastatingly handsome and in a relationship with Rihanna. But like him, I too am terrible at delivering major projects on time. A$AP Rocky is an American…
Kate Megathlin | The Seattle Collegian It’s been a while, folks, but I’m fully back now. More importantly, I can regurgitate my opinions at all of you without prior permission. As 2026 approaches, I might as well reflect on the past year of music before we go on. 2025 was a strong year for music, as most years are. The charts…
Danika Djuanda Under the low, slate-gray sky of a Seattle winter, the Capitol Hill Station plaza vibrates with perpetual motion. Commuters funnel between light rail, buses, and the bustle of Broadway, head-down in a space defined by the transient logic of transit. But a geography of loss slices through that flow. Steel, glass, and concrete anchor a…