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The Student News Site of Trinity University

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Blooming where you are planted

Blooming where you are planted

Trinity’s community garden thrives as a new spring season of planting takes off
Ashlyn Gillespie, Pulse Reporter February 29, 2024

As spring kicked off with an 85-degree bang earlier this week, San Antonio native wildlife wakes up after the winter freezes. The Gardening Club leads the Community Garden and has prepared for this moment...

Outdoor recreation: Oh, the places you’ll go

Outdoor recreation: Oh, the places you’ll go

Participants and staff from OREC share their experiences with trips
Daniel Itkins, Pulse Reporter February 29, 2024

Trinity’s Outdoor Recreation (OREC) program offers students an opportunity to explore nature, meet new people and step outside their comfort zones. OREC trips include activities like hiking, biking,...

Imposter syndrome: That feeling plaguing college students

Imposter syndrome: That feeling plaguing college students

Students share their experiences battling with and overcoming imposter syndrome
Omar Ratrut, Pulse Reporter February 22, 2024

While college students are often faced with common university-related ailments like frat flu, athlete’s foot and the occasional hangover-induced migraine, some may deal with more psychological phenomena....

Remembering Dr. Coleen Grissom

Remembering Dr. Coleen Grissom

Faculty and alumni share memories of the venerated author, professor and administrator
Ashlyn Gillespie, Pulse Reporter February 22, 2024

Many people knew and loved Coleen Grissom — former author, English professor and Vice President of Student Affairs. Grissom passed in January, and Trinity held a Celebration of Life Service in Margarite...

Teers of joy: Finding love at Trinity

Teers of joy: Finding love at Trinity

Evan Mailloux and Isabel Elsisi share meaningful moments from their relationship
Malika Chauhan, Pulse Reporter February 15, 2024

Relationships entail all sorts of dynamics, stories, memories and connections. Whether meeting someone in class or through mutual friends, relationships are often unexpected but rooted in the same foundation...

Intergalactic excellence and Maddy Reich’s discovery

Intergalactic excellence and Maddy Reich’s discovery

Aspiring astrophysicist at the forefront of 77 new hidden black hole discoveries
Omar Ratrut, Pulse Reporter February 15, 2024

Maddy Reich, senior physics major and astronomy and math double-minor, has always enjoyed math, but she did not discover her passion for astronomy and astrophysics until she began her journey at Trinity....

ALE internships: An opportunity for discovery

ALE internships: An opportunity for discovery

Trinity students discuss their experience with the Arts, Letters and Enterprise internship program
Daniel Itkins, Pulse Reporter February 15, 2024

The search for internships can be challenging for college students, making them question if an internship is worth all the effort of finding one. Trinity University offers students an option in the Arts,...

Selma Sanchez, junior

Sidewalk Symposium: What is love? (Baby, don’t hurt me)

Daniel Itkins, Pulse Reporter February 8, 2024

Selma Sanchez, junior communication and Spanish double-major What is love? “Love is this feeling that you get when you are surrounded by the people that you care about and those that you want to take...

Trinity’s dating scene may not be that hopeless

Trinity’s dating scene may not be that hopeless

Students discuss their romantic relationships with others they met at Trinity
Ashlyn Gillespie, Pulse Reporter February 8, 2024

At a small school like Trinity, it can feel like there are too few fish in the sea. However, some have still been able to find their significant other while on campus. Robin Bernal, junior religion major,...

Beasley marks 100 visitors and counting

Beasley marks 100 visitors and counting

Sophomores at Trinity have Beasley sign her name as 100th visitor
Malika Chauhan, Pulse Reporter February 8, 2024

Sophomore students were on a mission to welcome President Vanessa Beasley as their special guest to leave a lasting mark on their dorm room wall with her signature. A clean room, some hors d’oeuvres,...

Sophie Radi, senior neuroscience major

Sidewalk Symposium: Whether weather affects us

Students share their thoughts on weather’s effect on their mood and productivity
Omar Ratrut, Pulse Reporter February 1, 2024

Derian Mowen, senior computer science major Do you think the weather can reflect how productive you are? “Absolutely, the weather has a big effect on my productivity as an individual. The cold also...

Araceli Amador highlights her time here at Trinity

Jackpot! Araceli Amador carries on

Catherine Zarr, Pulse Editor February 1, 2024

The college application process can be daunting and confusing, but for Araceli Amador, senior biology major, the process was made even more difficult. As the first from their family to go to college, Amador...