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Atonement

It’s a sweltering summer day in England, 1935, and the teetering Tallis family drape themselves across their upper-class country house. Like dolls being perfectly positioned throughout the home, we meet the Tallis children—Leon, Celia, and Briony—from oldest to youngest as they linger between a misspent summer and a scandal that will alter their lives and scatter their bonds forever.

Hieronymus Bosch:  The art of the unsettling

For centuries, humans have been obsessed with the unsettling. In the modern age, we continue to embrace the horror genre, typically in cinema, literature, or other entertainment mediums.

On gatekeeping

The word “gatekeep” has grown in popularity over the last few years, most famously in the phrase “gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss.” Gatekeep: the act of gatekeeping — to control access to something in an attempt to exclude others.

Hearty tomato soup

If you’re looking to impress someone this week, consider making them a meal, and there’s really no easier place to start than soup.

Love, in the college sense

I feel as if I have been in college for decades at this point, perhaps eons. Every day I grow more tired of the mundane and meaningless and yearn for something uplifting.

New majors offered at Stevens

At Stevens, we are excited to expand the possible curriculum we can offer to ensure that we get a diverse range of students that can possibly exceed all possible possibilities.

Addressing the rainbow elephant in the room

I find the idea of this column pretty daunting. I mean, how could I possibly write articles that are going to capture the experience of being a woman?

Hinge hell

I, like many other newly 18-year-olds, downloaded a dating app. While bad profiles and typo-laden cringe messages served as my entertainment for a while, I’ve realized that this app indicates a larger problem in my life.

Should you get a part-time job?

Is a part-time job feasible in the academic environment we live in? Attending college isn’t what we used to think it was when we were younger.

A Man Called Ove

– Content Warning: suicide –

For Christmas I received a book called A Man Called Ove. Deeply poignant, utterly hilarious, and refreshingly optimistic, it has since become one of my favorite books.