Liam Winstead was elected as Managing Editor of The Triton for the 2023-24 school year by The Triton’s Editorial Board on March 2. Winstead, a graduating third-year, is a Real Estate and Development major and Urban Studies and Planning minor at Sixth College. After joining The Triton in Spring Quarter 2022 as a News writer […]
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Maya Philipp Re-Elected 2023-24 Editor-in-Chief
Maya Philipp was re-elected as the Editor-in-Chief (EIC) of The Triton for the 2023-24 school year by The Triton’s Editorial Board on March 2. Philipp, a fourth-year Marine Biology major and Urban Studies and Planning minor at Seventh College, joined The Triton in 2020 as a photographer. After 2020, Philipp moved up to Assistant Multimedia […]
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Six Ways To Make Friends on Campus and Counter the “UC Socially Dead” Narrative
UC San Diego has long held the title, “UC Socially Dead,” deemed by students attending the accredited university to mock the almost non-existent social and Greek life on campus. This nickname casts an intimidating shadow on first-years and current scholars trying to make friends among the 30,000 undergraduates currently attending the school. There are, however, […]
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Field Medic at Quartyard, a Tactful Evening
Scan any Field Medic album and you will find a handful of component parts: longing, regret, self-deprecation, guitar, and low fidelity drum loops. Kevin Sullivan has been releasing records as Field Medic for a decade now, with six full-length albums and a dozen or so EPs to his name. I first heard Sullivan’s music this […]
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Amazon’s Just Walk Out Couldn’t Be Better
Earlier this year, UC San Diego’s Housing Dining and Hospitality Department made headlines by announcing that three on-campus markets would feature Amazon’s Just Walk Out technology. At Roger’s, Sixth, and Seventh Markets, students can bypass the forced human interaction at checkout and instead just grab their items and walk out the door. All they need […]
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New Neighborhoods and the Current Housing Situation
UC San Diego’s new Theatre District Living and Learning Neighborhood (home to Eighth College) was expected to have enough beds for 2,000 students for Fall Quarter 2023; however, only about 343 students moved in due to delayed construction, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. George Lo, the Associated Students (AS) President for the 2023-24 academic […]
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Olivia Rodrigo “Guts” Album Review
Olivia Rodrigo, the 20 year-old rockstar and idol, rocketed to success with her debut album Sour in 2021. Her sophomore album, Guts, suggests that her newfound fame and success is not all good; in fact, much of it is painful and deeply unhealthy. Guts is a lush, indulgent portrayal of a young woman’s first experience […]
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On softscars Yeule Reconfigures Their Music and Themself
Arriving a little over a year after 2022’s critically acclaimed Glitch Princess, Yeule’s third full-length album is their loudest and most immediately satisfying. Pulling effortlessly from ‘90s rock and shoegaze, softscars is less a departure in sound than in disposition; the record’s greatest revelations come in the sound of an artist facing themself and reclaiming […]
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Top 5 Places to Study at UCSD
Summer is over and school is back in session! The grind has begun and it’s time to find your new favorite spot to study on campus. Here are some tips from The Conch for the best places to study on campus to boost your efficiency, grades, and future salary, unless you are an art major. […]
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Where is Podemos?
If you have ever been lucky enough to enroll in a class that meets at PODEM, you might be wondering where it is. Better yet, you might also be wondering what the name even means. If you unscramble PODEM, it spells out “moped.” Might this be the university’s way to tell us to go buy […]