Finding a Future in Your Dirty Dishes

By Jesse Stewart, Staff Writer

Far rarer than oil, money, or love, time seems to be the scarcest resource of all. There never seems to be quite enough to go around, despite an abundance of machines designed to free our hands, minds, and attention. Technology helps clear our schedules more than ever before, yet we feel busier than we’ve ever been. It seems that there’s not enough hours in the day, but what if I told you that you already own an instrument that can help you slow the sands of time?

There are approximately eighty million dishwashers in the United States and, if you ask me, that’s about eighty million too many. In numerous polls, half of all Americans feel anxiety due to a perception of not having enough time in the day, despite more than 75% of all households owning a dishwasher, a machine designed for the expressed purpose of freeing up the user’s obligations to cleaning their cutlery and tableware.

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Triumph over Turmoil

By: Alaina Valdespino, Staff Writer

Maybe It's just me, but some days I wake up feeling like it's the same old story. That minutes become hours, hours become days and somewhere along the way the leaves turn and the calendar changes. Maybe it’s the uncertainty. The dysfunction perhaps? Either way, it’s like I'm stuck in this cycle of not knowing when things will start to be normal again.

And sure, I could blame the elephant in the room that is COVID-19. Or pin it on 2020 like most Gen Z Twitter users. But at the end of the day, what good does that do?

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