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BurntXOrange

Online news & entertainment magazine at UT Austin

BurntXOrange

Online news & entertainment magazine at UT Austin

BurntXOrange

Affordable Makeup for Beginners

Affordable Makeup for Beginners

Damiana De La Paz April 4, 2022

When you first try out makeup, the options can be overwhelming. There are so many brands and types of makeup, which makes it hard to understand where to even begin. A lot of influencers only talk about...

My Top Five Mystery Books

My Top Five Mystery Books

Sandhya Maddali March 25, 2022

I’ve always been into mystery books. It started with Nancy Drew and The Hardy Boys, which my mom used to read to me when I was younger. I had a little “Choose Your Own Adventure” mystery book that...

Things You May Have Missed Watching Netflix's "Squid Game"

Things You May Have Missed Watching Netflix’s “Squid Game”

Dilen Lee November 15, 2021

(Trigger Warning: Mention of suicide) Recently, my sister’s fiancé, a software engineer, went on a business trip to Maryland. During a meeting, when everyone was introducing themselves, one of the...

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Eight Hot Hip-Hop Tracks to Add to Your Fall Playlist

October 26, 2019

Every direction you turn, another fall-enthusiast appears, donned in clothing that bears the unfortunate essence of Donald Trump’s face tan. Cheap, gray cobweb decorations and brown blob-shaped “pumpkin” Reese’s taunt you as a brutal reminder that 2019 has been a disappointing dark pit of dead aspirations. Your only solace is the tireless hip-hop music that hasn’t been ruined by football-savvy frat boys.

Here are eight such tracks you can blare to drown out the intensity of autumn, somewhere between looping the new Frank Ocean, coping with October 31st’s Mercury in Retrograde and the painful wait on Kanye’s Jesus is King.

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Ten Things I Learned As A Freshman

May 16, 2016

Here are a few lessons UT freshmen have learned.