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Posts published in “Year: 2024

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.

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.

A stroll around Battery Park City

This past weekend, the weather was too lovely to stay inside. I decided to walk with temperatures reaching the 50s and the sun shining.

Maintaining a balance

As we’re scarily one-fifth of the way through the semester, I have taken some time to reflect on the past few weeks, as well as my entire college experience, seeing how it will be coming to an end so soon.

When physics laws are broken

Ever study for a test only to find your mind blank once you read the first question? Now, this would not be an issue on a small quiz, but the exam I took the past week holds 35 percent of

my physics grade.

U.S. looking to ban popular holidays

In a surprising turn of events, the United States government has recently enacted new legislation to ban some of the most popular holidays that people like to celebrate: New Year’s Day, Valentine’s Day, Easter, Fourth of July, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.

The metamorphosis of Stevens

The landscape of Stevens has changed so much since I came here in Fall 2020. When I arrived on campus, the UCC Towers were blocked behind fences and scaffolding obscured most of the view.

Stevens’s red flags

Each and every one of the buildings on the Stevens campus has its positives and negatives. Whether it’s the sparkling towers or the crusty old Edwin A.