The Gatepost Editorial: Goodbye with gratitude
As the semester comes to a close, we at The Gatepost would like to extend our appreciation to all those who helped the entire FSU community finish strong. This was not the spring semester any […]
Op/Ed
Making peace with the pandemic
Reporting on the worst public health disaster in modern history was not what I had in mind when I applied to intern for The MetroWest Daily News. Like most Americans around the start of the […]
A battle with a mirror
“Quarantine 15 is the new freshmen 15.” “Due to coronavirus, my summer body will be postponed until 2021.” “If you haven’t lost weight all quarantine, you can only blame yourself. There’s still time to make […]
I don’t know how unemployment works, and I’m sure you don’t, either
More than 16 million Americans have applied for unemployment since mid-March, according to NBC. I was one of those Americans. At 22 years old, I was permanently laid off from a part-time job that I […]
Class of 2020 Senior Letters
Reflecting on these past four years at Framingham State, I’ve really been able to grow as a person. From widening old passions to developing entirely new ones, meeting lifelong friends and faculty who’ve inspired me […]
You can’t put a price on self-care
It’s pretty easy for everyday life to become stressful – this is true even when we’re not in the midst of a pandemic. As a college student, I’m no stranger to stress. I believe that […]
A service older than the nation itself
As a kid, I remember standing on my tippy toes peering out the window of my great aunt’s living room in anticipation of the mail truck. It might be considered weird for the average 5-year-old […]
A transfer student’s journey to FSU
Senior year of high school. Like many of you, I spent hours perfecting my college admissions essay. I soaked in every moment attending my last varsity football game, danced the night away at my prom, […]
Reopening early will trap us longer
Throughout several states, including Massachusetts – the newly declared hotspot of the COVID-19 outbreak – protesters have gathered to demand their governors drop social distancing orders while rallying to reopen the country, despite the virus’ […]
Did Biden get preferential treatment from The New York Times?
Tara Reade, a former staffer of Vice President Joe Biden, accused the presumptive Democratic nominee of sexual assault March 23. She described being forced against a wall and sexually assaulted by then Sen. Biden in […]