This project is a gender breakdown of Super Smash Bros. playable characters over time. I will explore all five games in the Super Smash Bros series and will categorize all playable characters by gender, including characters purchasable through DLC, to determine if the gender ratios have changed over time.
A day in the life of a Viget intern (Boulder edition)
Welcome to Boulder! You’re this summer’s UX design intern at Viget, and you decided to go to the Colorado office. This was an excellent choice because Boulder is fabulous, and that is made clear every day on your walk to work. You pass the lush Central Park and rushing Boulder Creek, and nearby mountains always…
The UNC senior traditions worth doing, and the ones to avoid
As a soon-to-be UNC-Chapel Hill graduate, I’ve recently completed all the senior traditions, sentimental occasions, and other nonsense. All I have to do is take my final exams and walk across a stage and I’ll be launched off into life’s next chapter. I mentioned in previous blogs that I’m not exactly a “Tar Heel born…
Why you should visit my hometown— Houston, Texas
After leaving Houston to go to college in North Carolina, I realized how deep and vast the misconceptions about my hometown were. When people imagined Houston, they pictured a desert with cacti and tumbleweeds. At best, they pictured a town flooded with cowboys spitting tobacco and making their way to markets on horseback. Until Hurricane…
White, wealthy and exempt from vaccinations
In 2014, a national measles outbreak was linked to Disneyland, where at least 39 cases were traced to direct exposure to the disease at the park. Over 170 people in 21 states became infected. In California, 88 percent of the measles patients were either unvaccinated or had unknown or undocumented vaccination status. This caused the…
Combat Food Waste
It starts with you. An estimated 30-40 percent of the United States’ food supply is wasted. In 2010, about 31 percent of food loss occurred at the retail or customer levels, which corresponds to 133 billion pounds and $161 billion worth of food. Meanwhile, 40 million Americans are living in food-insecure households, or households that…
Easy ways to relax that do not include screens
It’s hard to unwind these days— with so many distracting screens on top of work and social obligations, there’s less and less time to unplug and de-stress. Phones buzz with every little alert and notification, TVs live in every room, and computers are bursting with time-sucking trash. As someone who can’t stand to spend the…
How a Texan became a Tar Heel
I loved my time at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and I can’t imagine spending these fast-paced, formative years anywhere else. But I was not a Tar Heel “born and bred.” When people learn that I was born and raised in Houston, Texas, they ask (without fail) how I ended up at…
How to get rid of spam calls
Spam calls have been plaguing people for decades, but these unwelcome interruptions have become overwhelmingly prevalent over the past few years. Some people get dozens of robot or nuisance calls per day, all of which are aiming to scam or steal from the victim. Last year, my personal cell phone was receiving between two and…
Should you hike Angels Landing?
The Zion National Park trail Angels Landing received its name in 1916 when a passing group commented that it was so high that only angels could land there. This trail has gained massive popularity over the years and thousands of hikers take on the challenge every season. Those who want to hike Angels Landing have…