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The Student News Site of Colorado State University

The Rocky Mountain Collegian

The Student News Site of Colorado State University

The Rocky Mountain Collegian

Living the Alternative: Summer reading guide

Living the Alternative: Summer reading guide

Taylor Felver May 22, 2017

Summer is the perfect time to catch up on some reading for those of us who enjoy a good book. This summer many new books will be making their debut and the summer is probably the best time to get reading....

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Top Read: Review of Fort Collins ‘South Park’ episode resonates with local readers

Taylor Felver May 8, 2017

Editor's note: As part of a media transparency initiative, on May 8, 2017, the Collegian spent the last day of publishing of the year telling our readers about us. You can read more about the people...

Living the Alternative: 5 realizations that will instantly make you feel old

Living the Alternative: 5 realizations that will instantly make you feel old

Taylor Felver May 6, 2017

Sure, we all hear things or do things (like graduate college) that make us feel old. Have you ever been walking by someone and caught a snippet of their conversation and you think to yourself, wow I feel...

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The Bates Motel comes to an end and does not dissapoint

Taylor Felver May 2, 2017

*disclaimer: SPOILERS AHEAD The fifth and final season of the Psycho prequel TV show, The Bates Motel, aired its season finale just this past Friday titled “The Chord,” and it was actually...

Living the Alternative: Red Rocks summer genre guide

Living the Alternative: Red Rocks summer genre guide

Taylor Felver April 27, 2017

One of the best parts of summer in Colorado is visiting Red Rocks. Not only is the rocky hillside venue to die for, but some of the acts are pretty amazing too. Every Coloradoan knows that you have to...

Living the Alternative: ‘Girls’ wraps up last season, leaves audience unsatisfied

Taylor Felver April 19, 2017

Well it’s the end of yet another season and you know what that means, so commence the long wait before finding another show to binge on. Girls wrapped up their final episode of their final season...

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Living the Alternative: ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’ is worth the watch

Taylor Felver April 14, 2017

Slowly but surely, the new Netflix show Thirteen Reasons Why is taking its viewers and the internet by storm. For those who have not heard about it, Thirteen Reasons Why is about a high school girl who...

Living the Alternative: A guide to Lana Del Reys albums

Living the Alternative: A guide to Lana Del Rey’s albums

April 11, 2017

Dark, mysterious, sexualized, nostalgic. One might think this sounds like a weird combination of words to put together, but really I'm just describing Lana Del Rey’s albums. To anybody who is a professed...

Living the Alternative: Things I wish people would have told me about studying abroad in Europe

Living the Alternative: Things I wish people would have told me about studying abroad in Europe

April 6, 2017

It is no surprise that for many, studying abroad is a big decision. The summer before I departed for school in England it is easy to say that it felt like absolutely chaos in preparation for what I was...

Living the Alternative: How to travel solo

Living the Alternative: How to travel solo

April 5, 2017

It is no surprise that travelling continues to not only be a growing topic trending across multimedia platforms, but also because travelling itself tends to be something more people are finding themselves...

Spread the Word Music Festival announces 2017 lineup

Taylor Felver March 30, 2017

Spread the Word Music Festival announced its fifth extravaganza in downtown Denver that will feature more than a hundred bands and up-and-coming DJs. The festival will take place May 5 through May 8...

Living the Alternative: The 6 types of people who post on Snapchat

Living the Alternative: The 6 types of people who post on Snapchat

March 22, 2017

Snapchat is a great way to keep in touch and up to date on friends lives. Maybe just a little too much. Like Facebook and Twitter also, snapchat allows us to see in real time what our friends are doing....

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