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The Award Winning News Publication of Mercy College

The Impact

The Award Winning News Publication of Mercy College

The Impact

My Favorite Poem

Mia Tindel, Impact Staff May 1, 2023

Is unwritten as it is told by a stand up poet at a poetry slam. ‘ If I was A Love Poet’ by Rudy Francisco. He recites and tells the audience how he feels towards a starbucks barista, whom he saw while...

Teenage Fantasy Reminds Me of a Simpler Time

Teenage Fantasy Reminds Me of a Simpler Time

Mia Tindel, Impact Staff April 12, 2023

 Description:  An individual who is a teenager and feels as if they're in love when they're really in love with the illusion, and the idea of someone just to fit in with the crowd. Before both...

Growing Up Without A Best Friend

Growing Up Without A Best Friend

Mia Tindel, Impact Staff April 1, 2023

  All our lives if not most of it we are told and taught that not everyone is our friend. we may have wanted everyone to have been our friend at one point in our lives if not at a young age where...

Should Residential Assistants Get Paid?

Should Residential Assistants Get Paid?

Mia Tindel, Impact Staff March 2, 2023

         The reality of being a residential assistant is not an easy one. These individuals have one of the hardest and most difficult student jobs on campus.  The debate...

What Valentine's Day Means To Me

What Valentine’s Day Means To Me

Mia Tindel, Impact Staff February 14, 2023

I used to like Valentine's Day, and how everyone made Valentine trinkets for each other in elementary school. The night before was full of excitement since you knew what was waiting for you as soon...

Beauty Influencers Trip To Dubai

Beauty Influencers Trip To Dubai

Mia Tindel, Impact Staff January 30, 2023

  The job of an influencer is to review and sell products in honesty to their followers and viewers on YouTube and Tik Tok. The makeup brand “Tarte cosmetics” took a handful of influencers...

How Black People Are Portrayed In The Media

How Black People Are Portrayed In The Media

Mia Tindel, Impact Staff January 30, 2023

  Black women get the bitter end of the stick when it comes to relationships and men. Or at least that is how social media platforms portray them as being. We see it between both men and female rappers...

Wednesday Addams Has New Life In New Series

Wednesday Addams Has New Life In New Series

Mia Tindel, Impact Staff December 1, 2022

The new series "Wednesday" starring Jenna Ortega made me think differently about the character as a whole. Being someone that has seen almost every Addams Family series from movies to random cameos about...

Is Tik-Tok Damaging the Music Industry?

Is Tik-Tok Damaging the Music Industry?

Mia Tindel, Impact Staff Writer November 29, 2022

Apps come and go and have the power to change anyone's life. From Vine, Musically, to Tik-Tok, and YouTube shorts. Teenagers and basically anyone has access to making their own content and the ability...

The Trauma Of Not Being Asked Out

The Trauma Of Not Being Asked Out

Mia Tindel, Impact Staff Writer October 30, 2022

School is the first real punch in the face where your peers can make you feel like trash and think that there's something wrong with you. Relationships form and the crushes learn to crush and just don’t...

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