Published Work

What the Lar­ry Nas­sar Tri­al Says About Sex­u­al Assault in Ath­let­ic Communities 
Study Breaks Mag­a­zine, Win­ter 2017
By Syd­ney Jennings

“I just signed your death war­rant.” That’s what Judge Rose­marie Aquili­na said after sen­tenc­ing Lar­ry Nas­sar, the for­mer Olympic gym­nas­tics doc­tor, to 40 to 175 years in prison … Read more

Lar­ry Nas­sar was sen­tenced 40 to 175 years in prison. Graph­ic by: Jesus Acosta

The New Face­book Changes Will Take You Back to Sim­pler Times
Study Breaks Mag­a­zine, Win­ter 2017
By Syd­ney Jennings

Face­book just announced the new changes to its news­feed and it has many adver­tis­ers wor­ried … Read more

Face­book recent­ly announced it’s chang­ing its News Feed, which has alarmed adver­tis­ers and heart­ened users. Pho­to cred­it: The Ringer

Why Aspir­ing Jour­nal­ists Should See “The Post”
Study Breaks Mag­a­zine, Win­ter 2017
By Syd­ney Jennings

Pic­ture it: Two elite news­pa­pers with huge nation­al influ­ence going head-to-head to report on one of the biggest scan­dals in Amer­i­can his­to­ry … Read more

Wash­ing­ton Post Pub­lish­er Katharine Gra­ham and Exe­cuc­tive Edi­tor Ben Bradlee leave U.S. Dis­trict Court in Wash­ing­ton June 21, 1971. Pho­to cred­it: AP Photo/stf/bd

The 9 Worst Cities for Col­lege Grad­u­ates to Live
Study Breaks Mag­a­zine, Win­ter 2017
By Syd­ney Jennings

Right now, as you are read­ing this arti­cle, you’re prob­a­bly think­ing: I have plen­ty of time to think about post-grad­u­a­tion job search­ing … Read more

These are the worst cities to find a job as a post-grad in Amer­i­ca. Pho­to cred­it: World Atlas

Is Quit­ting the Best Response to Pay Inequality?
Study Breaks Mag­a­zine, Win­ter 2017
By Syd­ney Jennings

Catt Sadler, the long­time E! News host quit after learn­ing that her male co-host, Jason Kennedy, was being paid close to dou­ble her salary … Read more

Catt Sadler quit E! News upon learn­ing about the salary inequal­i­ty between her and her co-host, Jason Kennedy. Pho­to cred­it: The Dai­ly Best

Is Indi­v­ior’s New Drug a Game Chang­er for the Opi­oid Addic­tion Epidemic? 
Study Breaks Mag­a­zine, Win­ter 2017
By Syd­ney Jennings

The Lon­don-based com­pa­ny, which spe­cial­izes in addic­tion treat­ment, cre­at­ed Sublo­cade, the first injectable drug for patients who are recov­er­ing from addic­tion … Read more

Amer­i­ca is bat­tling one of the worst opi­oid epi­dem­ic in its his­to­ry and the intro­duc­tion of Indi­v­ior’s new­ly devel­oped drug may be the solu­tion. Pho­to cred­it: Pace University

The Leg­end of Michi­gan State’s Beard­ed Man
Study Breaks Mag­a­zine, Win­ter 2017
By Syd­ney Jennings

What do you get when you com­bine a beard­ed man, a t‑shirt and your love of nature? You get The­Mount­Co … Read more

Logo of The­Mount­Co. Pho­to cred­it: TheMountCo

3 White Lies to Spin Your Resume to Land Your Dream Job
Study Breaks Mag­a­zine, Win­ter 2017
By Syd­ney Jennings

When apply­ing for a job or an intern­ship, you want to make your resume look pro­fes­sion­al and, most of all, impres­sive … Read more

Know­ing how to ‘tweak’ your resume in the right way will give you great advan­tages in the com­pet­i­tive race for a dream job. Pho­to cred­it: Freakonomics

6 Essen­tial Items Every Col­lege Stu­dent Needs on Their Hol­i­day Wish List
Study Breaks Mag­a­zine, Fall 2017
By Syd­ney Jennings

Well, it’s offi­cial­ly the hol­i­day sea­son with Pep­per­mint Mocha Lat­te offered in every café, hol­i­day dec­o­ra­tions in every store and, even though we haven’t even made it through Thanks­giv­ing yet, hol­i­day music play­ing soft­ly in your favorite cof­fee shop … Read more

Every col­lege stu­dent is too broke to buy them­selves any­thing, so the hol­i­days turn into a time to get all of the neces­si­ties. Pho­to cred­it: US News

7 Things Every Col­lege Stu­dent Needs in Their First Apartment
Study Breaks Mag­a­zine, Fall 2017
By Syd­ney Jennings

Being in an apart­ment is very dif­fer­ent from liv­ing in uni­ver­si­ty hous­ing and you will need a pletho­ra of things for your new home. But don’t wor­ry, this arti­cle has got you cov­ered … Read more

Mov­ing does not have to be a stress. Pho­to cred­it: Dianne Gotsman

Why #MeToo is More Than Just a Hashtag
Study Breaks Mag­a­zine, Fall 2017
By Syd­ney Jennings

Mil­lions of men and women from celebri­ties to ath­letes to us reg­u­lar Joe’s used the hash­tag “Me Too” to high­light sex­u­al assault and give empow­er­ment to the vic­tims … Read more

The hash­tag #MeToo took over social media and start­ed a move­ment of women empow­er­ment. Pho­to cred­it: Slate

CEO of Cam­pus Insights Brings Busi­ness From Class­room to Boardroom
Study Breaks Mag­a­zine, Fall 2017
By Syd­ney Jennings

Dur­ing his fresh­man year at Boston Col­lege, Riley Soward was at a cof­fee shop with his friend, who is an app devel­op­er, when sud­den­ly they got an idea … Read more

Riley Soward is the founder of Cam­pus Insights, a com­pa­ny that he start­ed as a fresh­man in col­lege. Pho­to cred­it: Medium

9 Hal­loween Cos­tumes That You Can Rock With Your Squad
Study Breaks Mag­a­zine, Fall 2017
By Syd­ney Jennings

What’s the best part about fall? Maybe it’s the chang­ing of leaves from green to yel­low, red and orange, eat­ing all pump­kin every­thing, feel­ing the crisp, cold weath­er or going apple pick­ing with a few friends. What­ev­er it may be, there is one hol­i­day that every­one looks for­ward to the entire month of Octo­ber … Read more 

Pho­to cred­it: Steady Mobbin

How Bump Stocks Are Chang­ing The Gun Con­trol Debate
Study Breaks Mag­a­zine, Fall 2017
 By Syd­ney Jennings

Accord­ing to the Gun Vio­lence Archive, a non-prof­it orga­ni­za­tion that pro­vides online pub­lic access to gun-relat­ed infor­ma­tion in the Unit­ed States, there have been two hun­dred and eighty mass shoot­ings in the coun­try in 2017 alone … Read more

The gun-con­trol debate has been sparked again after the Las Vegas shoot­er was found using bump stocks. Pho­to cred­it: theblaze

4 Shows You Need to Binge Watch on Net­flix This Month
Study Breaks Mag­a­zine, Fall 2017 
 By Syd­ney Jennings

Nowa­days, hard­ly any­one watch­es reg­u­lar tele­vi­sion shows. You know, the ones with long com­mer­cial breaks where you have to wait a whole week to see what hap­pens next. Those days are long gone now … Read more

The crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed Net­flix series ‘Stranger Things’ returns this Octo­ber. Pho­to cred­it: The Independent

9 Things That Hap­pen When You Trans­fer Colleges
Study Breaks Mag­a­zine, Fall 2017
By Syd­ney Jennings

Every year, in one of the great­est migra­tions in the ani­mal king­dom, thou­sands of under­grad­u­ate stu­dents trans­fer col­leges. Maybe they didn’t like their school’s loca­tion, class size, atmos­phere or price tag, but what­ev­er the rea­son, stu­dents change schools with a sur­pris­ing reg­u­lar­i­ty … Read more

Trans­fer­ring col­leges almost nev­er feels com­fort­able imme­di­ate­ly, but it’s almost always the right deci­sion. Pho­to cred­it: Dar­ling Magazine 

Sur­vey Reveals How Long UConn Stu­dents Study for Finals
The Tab UConn, Spring 2017
By Syd­ney Jennings

Accord­ing to a Tab sur­vey of 3,000 stu­dents who self-report­ed their study habits, UConn is ranked 35th for the num­ber of hours spent a day study­ing for finals with an aver­age of 7.8 hours … Read more

Pho­to Cred­it: Pinterest

Six UConn Stu­dents Arrest­ed in Con­nec­tion to Death of Jeffny Pally 
The Tab UConn, Spring 2017
By Syd­ney Jennings

Six UConn stu­dents were arrest­ed in con­nec­tion with the death of Jeffny Pal­ly who died in Octo­ber after being run over by a uni­ver­si­ty fire depart­ment vehi­cle. The stu­dents were arrest­ed fol­low­ing a police inves­ti­ga­tion that revealed the men were respon­si­ble for pro­vid­ing alco­hol at a par­ty held at their off-cam­pus fra­ter­ni­ty house that Jeffny went to … Read more

Pho­to cred­it: Facebook

UConn Stu­dents Reflect on the Real­i­ty of Pres­i­dent Trump
The Tab UConn, Fall 2016
By Syd­ney Jennings

UConn joined in on the coun­try-wide protests with a ral­ly today out­side Wilbur Cross protest­ing the new­ly elect­ed Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump where there was a mix of emo­tions and opin­ions …Read more

Pho­to cred­it: Syd­ney Jennings

How a Harambe Rock Helped This UConn Stu­dent Run for Stu­dent Government 
The Tab UConn, Fall 2016
By Syd­ney Jennings

One UConn Stu­dent Gov­ern­ment nom­i­nee used his artis­tic skills to paint the goril­la, Harambe, on a well known rock on cam­pus to help pro­mote his cam­paign plat­form and catch stu­den­t’s atten­tions … Read more 

Pho­to Cred­it: Josh Wojtyna

Snow Has Fall­en on the UConn Cam­pus on Hal­loween Weekend 
The Tab UConn, Fall 2016
By Syd­ney Jennings

The UConn cam­pus got a cold sur­prise when a snow storm hit Con­necti­cut on Hal­loween week­end and cov­ered the cam­pus in a beau­ti­ful white haze which left many stu­dents and fac­ul­ty con­fused … Read more

Pho­to cred­it: The Tab