The Current - MSU Current Magazine

The Flow of The Current: A Semester in Review

Prison Labor: America’s Secret Workforce

The Hard Truths of Clean Energy

Passing Down Trauma to Kids: A Personal Essay

Increase in Accessibility: The Unexpected Silver Lining of COVID-19

TikTok Made Me Buy It: TikTok Advertising and Why It (Sometimes) Works

Hobby Lobby’s Hilarious Controversies

Copaganda: You’re Being Brainwashed

The Rise and Fall (and Rise?) of 2000s Fashion

Are You Sure You Don’t Have COVID?

Music to Keep Alive: Prince

Variations on Theme: Horror Games

Amazon: Helping or Hurting Small Businesses

Movie Theaters in a Pandemic

What’s Happening in Nigeria?

Sales Over Safety: Holiday Ads and COVID-19

Struggling Spartans: How Seniors Feel about Graduating amidst a Pandemic

The Perfect Storm: Price Gouging and Disaster

What Makes a Book Cover Compelling?

A Disney Christmas: All the Shows You Should (and Shouldn’t) Watch

Leaving the Country

Suffering is Sexy: The Romanticizing of Mental Health

Is Grad School Worth it?

Music to Keep Alive: The Police

Is It Still Okay To Like Harry Potter?

Winter 2020: What to Know, How to Prepare

Diversity in Netflix’s Bly Manor

Holding out for the Holiday Season

Ethics Behind Fueling our Future

Body Positivity’s Negative

Bisexual or Pansexual? The Many Prefixes of Loving Many Genders

Latinx: A Cultural Controversy

Turmeric: A Strange New Forefront of COVID Research

Reality TV: How Are Productions Able To Run New Seasons Amid a Pandemic?

The Elevated Nuisance of Noise During a Pandemic

The Reality of Multiple Sclerosis

Gender After Gen Eds: A Look Into Gender Disparity in Higher Education

Spartan Shame

Write More Letters

Up in Vapor

The Advent of an Industry’s Collapse

Underresearched and Underrepresented: Women’s Healthcare

Everyone’s a Photographer

Who Exactly is Watching You?: The Privacy Violations of Location Tracking and Surveillance

Furloughed and Flustered

MSU and Big Ten Football trudge on Amidst Rampant COVID-19

Bridging the Representational Gap Between Physical and Mental Disability within Academia

Absentee Ballots

A is for Adderall

Minimalism: Here to Stay or Time to Go?

Victoria’s Secret’s Non-Inclusive Fantasy

Food During the Lockdown

Why are Students Mask Shaming during COVID-19?

Cuties: The Misunderstood Controversy

Class Zoom Struggles

A Nurse’s Story: Working on a COVID-19 Unit

Pinterest: An Artist’s Best Friend or Worst Nightmare?

Sorry, Not Sorry

BLM: Why Does Everyone Care Now?

Mask Up and Wrap Up

Open Letter

Which Conrad’s is Actually the Best?

Is There a Right Way to Shop?

What to do in our 20s

Locked in Leases

The Trouble with Vaccines

Lowering Tuition in a Pandemic

How COVID-19 Affected America’s Recycling Crisis

MSU Recommendations Fail to Curb COVID Surge

What’s Going on with the USPS?

Dissociative Identity Disorder: No Really, What Is It?

Mask Fails

Why Does Netflix Keep Cancelling Good Shows?

Seasonal to Seasonless Fashion

Movies for This Halloween Season

How Real is Reality T.V.?

Swipe ‘Right’

Back to School: COVID-19 Edition

The Evolution of Listening to Music

Paving the Path of Horror

Airbnb: Helping or Worsening the Spread of COVID-19?

Beauty is Skin Deep Part II: What’s Really in Your Products?

Drag

YouTube Influencer Throws Birthday Party During the Pandemic

Notable Michigan State University Alumni

The Shifting Image of Witchcraft

International Students: Will they Return?

Pandemic Parenthood: A New Reality of Parenting

White Savior Movies and Their Less Problematic Counterparts

Face Masks: The New Fashion Trend?

Immigration in the United States Through Time

Coming of Age Movies for College Grads

Tik Tok is Going to be Banned from the United States?

Beauty is Skin Deep: Problems in the Makeup Industry

Hiking the Appalachian Trail

Plastic Surgery and its Effect on Beauty Standards

Are Streaming Services Killing Movie Theaters?

Time Management for College Students

Play Ball! …Maybe

Changes in the Medical Field Due to COVID-19

Online Therapy: Is It Truly Effective?

The Reopening of East Lansing Bars Result in Covid Outbreak

Mythical Creatures

“I Went Viral?”: How a TikTok I Posted Ended Up with Over One Million Views

Dungeons and Dragons

The Job Hunt for Graduates

Liquor and Marijuana Use During a Pandemic

LGBTQ Highlights

How Quarantine Helps Animal Shelters

Escapism: Please Don’t Make Me Think About It

Returning to Michigan State University

How to Be Productive When Working from Home

A Personal Account of the Lansing Protest

The Truth Behind Van Life

In-Person to Online

Effects of the Border Shutdown

Contact Tracing: How will this affect the future?

Oh, the Horror: Horror Books vs. Horror Movies

Effects of the Broadway Shutdown

The 20’s Epidemic

2020 Graduation: The Process to Acceptance

I’m a Follower, Not Inferior

Incognito Eating Disorders

The Harsh Reality of Fast Fashion

Our Final Draft

Taking Back the Milk Discourse from White Supremacists

Kombucha and SCOBY: More Than Just the Latest Trend

Age of Education

MSU Athletics: A Continuity of Protecting Abusers

Honor Your Roots

The Harm of Depression Humor

DTN’s Near Monopoly on Student Housing

A Modern Dystopia: American Healthcare

Marketing During a Pandemic

In Hindsight

The Rise and Controversy of Fad Diet Products on Instagram

A Match Made in Quarantine: COVID-19 and the Release of Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Cochlear Implants: As Miraculous As They Say?

Trading Passion for Obsession?

The Pressures of Instagram & Filters

8-Bit Injustice: Hate Speech in an Animated World

From Computer Screens to the Bookshelves

Uprooting the Peace: Suspension of Peace Corps Service Amidst COVID-19 Outbreak

Stacking Your Shelves: Supporting Local Bookstores during COVID-19

Attack of the Turkeys

And This is How We Live Now

Extreme Body Makeover: Epidermis Edition

Trying to Sync: Hands-On Majors in a COVID World

Sourdough

The Silver Linings of COVID-19

COVID19: The Struggle of Online Classes for the Neurodivergent

From 14,000 to 600: I’m Still Living on Campus

COVID19: The Show Mustn’t Go On

COVID19: Virtual Touch

The Importance of Documentation

Looking at the Next Level: Game Development Students and a Changing Industry

How One Old Town Lansing Small Business is Preparing for Coronavirus

Payment for Players

COVID19: Notes From an Asian American: How COVID-19 Has Changed My Life

Sexual Assault Within an MSU Sorority: How Greek Life Handles It

Why Adults Should Read Children’s and Young Adult Literature

COVID19: Depressed Thoughts From Isolation

The Authenticity of Personal Branding in a World of Competition

America’s Dirt

Thrifting: The New Fast Fashion?

COVID19: Quarantined With a Toddler

A Peek Outside the “Normal”: Polyamorous Relationships

The Dangers of Snap Map

Other Things To Do This St. Patrick’s Day

The Value of the Arts and Humanities

Collegiate Rodentia: Our Favorite Friends

What is TikTok?

The Forgotten Female Serial Killer

Celebrities and Politics

Cyberpunk is Now

Prevalence of Negative Attitudes Towards Introversion

The Hub’s Move-in Day Disaster

The (Possible) Progression of the Catholic Church

The Dangers of Counterfeit Makeup and How You Can Avoid It

Online Dating

The Price of Education

Driving With No Destination: A Look into Parking Issues Around Michigan State University

Evolution of Education: The Product of Technology in the Classroom

‘LGBTQ+ Sex Act = Tragedy’ Trope: A Consideration of Impact

Pitching a Book in 280 Characters or Less

Accessible Times are Changing: Molly Burke as a Force of Positivity and Inclusivity

LGBTQ+ Representation in Horror

When “Good News” is Bad

What You Should Know About ASMR

Hungry for Learning: Food Insecurity on College Campuses

Grindr’s Toxic Effects on Gay College Men

The Rotten Score: Rotten Tomatoes vs the Box Office

K-Pop & Western Culture: A Critical Look at Hallyu

Children of Flower Children: The Differences Between Being Raised by Hippies and Catholics

You Want to Go to Therapy. Now What?

The Legal Provisions and Limitations of Legalized Marijuana in Michigan

Veganary is upon us

Responsible Casting