Welcome back, Mountaineers! It’s great to see you again.  I am so excited to serve as your Editor-in-Chief of The Appalachian for the 2022-23 academic year. It is truly an honor. For nearly nine...

Best Thing to Do in Boone as an Alum: Football Games By Nadine Jallal If there’s one thing App State students are known for, it’s our dedication and commitment on game days. According to alumni,...

I entered The Appalachian newsroom in 2019 as an eager and overachieving freshman who made my then boyfriend come with me and act like he was interested because I was nervous. I’m now leaving with too...

Saying goodbye to something you’ve loved for three years is really weird, and I’m not sure who I would be without The Appalachian.  From covering a fire in my own dorm using my phone to having...

When it comes to trying to summarize my time here at The Appalachian and my time in Boone as a whole, a few words come to mind. The first of which is community. Everywhere I’ve turned, I’ve been lucky...

Somehow I ended up in Plemmons 217 spring semester of my first year at App State. I genuinely could not tell you how I came to be leaning against the wall, not knowing a soul, simply taking in the beautiful...

Max Correa is of the Jewish faith and does not spell out his deity’s name out of respect.  My time with The Appalachian, although short-lived, taught me many lessons. Two of them stand out to me...

I never know what to say when it comes to stuff like this, but I figured I’d try. I transferred to App State in summer 2020, so as you can probably guess, it wasn’t easy for me to make friends up...

There’s no doubt that my time at App State didn’t turn out the way I thought it would. I think all current seniors feel that way. I came wide-eyed and ready to do all the things, have all the experiences,...

It used to be a goal of mine to write at least one thing for the paper. Well, here it is. I’ve designed a handful of ads in the paper and see my name in it every month, but there’s something special...

The summer before my first year I transferred to App State, I had already become the graphics editor. Not even knowing what the campus looked like or where Boone was at the time, I became a part of an...

This is the last article I’ll ever write for The Appalachian. And this is my hardest goodbye. I’ve joked all year to my friends about my farewell, how I would expose truths that reside in Room...