Natural Cyborgs

My phone has become recurrent entity in my daily-life. I rely on it as a means of communication between myself and friends, as an alarm clock to arouse me in the morning, and, being terrible with remembering how to get across town, as a guide to aid me in my travels around Tampa and the…

Losing My Best Friend

Last Saturday night, I had just come back from a Lightning game and decided to call my parents to check in on them. My dog, Loco, was starting to have accidents in the house, difficulty laying down/standing up, and even developed cataracts in his old age. He could no longer make it on our evening…

The Power of Glass

Today, my roommate asked if the glass on our shelf was rusting. I thought that glass was unable to rust, but he assured me that glass contains iron and so it can. I inspected the bottles, and did not see signs of corrosion, but did begin to reflect on my ancestry. I come from a…

Fuzzy Logic

I am currently enrolled in a math course called Discrete Mathematics. We go over a bunch of information about computers use mathematical reasoning and logic to operate and solve problems. Besides the typically quizzes and exams in the class, I also had to write a few papers. The first one was required, but the second…

Uneasy Cyborgs

By Laura Mattson I finally realized one reason why I keep feeling incredibly overwhelmed. I live a life of mass connectivity. It is not unusual for me to be talking to five or so people at a time with the help of different apps and sites like Facebook, Snapchat, SMS, GroupMe, and WhatsApp. This is…