Shayne Watson

UCF students are no strangers to the warm, humid weather central Florida brings, but during the month of October it can be a struggle to get excited for fall when a lot of students have never experienced this change of season. “Fall is just so cozy, there is something about wearing a sweater and curling up in bed watching Halloween movies that just make me feel so warm,” Jane Koshy, junior speech language pathology major said.

For more than twenty years, I’ve studied San Francisco’s built environment as an architectural historian. North Beach—one of the city’s oldest, most layered neighborhoods—has long been central to my work. Alongside my colleague and mentor Katherine Petrin, I walked every block of the proposed North Beach National Register Historic District. We documented, photographed, and debated the significance of every structure.

The highly anticipated 1.6 update for Stardew Valley was finally released on March 19 and includes some major changes. Along with new areas to explore, new festivals to participate in and new NPC dialogues, there were also countless bug fixes. Stardew Valley is one of the most popular cozy games to date, and part of the reason being that it’s technically never ending. The update adds some new quests to complete, prolonging your farming adventure with even more things to explore.