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The Final Chapter
Illustration by Anthony Mata/The Guardsman
By Mckenna Toston
The Guardsman
San Francisco is like a ghost town. Dreary and desolate. I feel like I’m in a post-apocalyptic city where nobody knows each ...
I left my heart in India
By Mckenna Toston
The Guardsman
I told myself a hundred times I wouldn’t cry on my last day. I never cry. Why should I now?
It’s not like I fell hopelessly in love ...
India will be hard to leave behind
Illustration by Anthony Mata/The Guardsman
By Mckenna Toston
I've learned a lot about myself during this trip..
I can go without showering for eight days straight.
I can sleep on the floor for ...
Chai tea, a birthday and a rickshaw collision
Illustration by Anthony Mata/The Guardsman
By Mckenna Toston
I was awakened the morning of my birthday by a chai delivery from Sonu, accompanied by a dozen roses, a jeweled ring and a ...
Kolkata is full of charm, culture and history
By Mckenna Toston
The Guardsman
I became homesick on my sixth day. I missed my city, my friends, home-cooking, and fresh air. But then I landed in Kolkata, and I was home.
Previously ...
Nothing can prepare you for India
By Mckenna Toston
The Guardsman
Before I left for my journey, the advice I most commonly received was, “nothing can prepare you for India.” This is a severe understatement. From the moment ...
Chutney Express
By Mckenna Toston
The Guardsman
My name is Mckenna Toston. I am a 21-year old female journalism student at City College. I work as a nanny in San Francisco, and I live ...
Education is stuck in a hundred-year-old rut
by Becca Hoekstra
The Guardsman
In the fast-paced world of Google, social media and the 24/7 news cycle, our Industrial Age education system is a dinosaur relic in need of retirement.
Get this: ...
Great teachers are worth their weight in gold
By Becca Hoekstra
The Guardsman
There is one single thing that can make or break your education. It’s not the discipline, subject or major. It’s not the amount of homework, the difficulty ...
There are more than two parties, ya know?
By Becca Hoekstra
The Guardsman
Oh, the Presidential Election. You bring me such joy. Not.The debates are in full swing.Policies are being passed around left and right on the usual–jobs, taxes, health ...
Voting is your voice
By Becca Hoekstra
The Guardsman
As you may have heard, there’s an election coming up in November.(If you have actually managed not to hear anything, can I please borrow your rocketship? Because ...
Don’t give it away for free
By Becca Hoekstra
The Guardsman
If the local coffee shop offered the opportunity to work for them FOR FREE, would you take them up on the offer?
I seriously hope not.
So why are ...
Sonic Treatment: Mount Eerie transforms natural landscape into an aural environment
By Peter Hernandez. Phil Elverum has found himself in the present with "Clear Moon" wherein sonic environments resemble rolling fog and dense mountaintops without easily falling into a specific genre.