Your 20s have to be your most haunted years, not just because of the young-adulthood purgatory of being an almost-adult who tries to accept the realities of death and taxes, but also the need to put the naiveties of childhood to rest (I’m floored to think we’re closer to the year 2030 than 2020) so we can take on the burden of becoming.
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Tianna is the Managing Editor of The Stute. She was previously the Features Editor and a freshman book columnist. She is a second-year Science Communication major with a focus in health sciences. She loves to cover campus life, culture, and science.
I’ve been thinking a lot about what learning looks like beyond the classroom. I’m not sure what I’m looking to equip myself with going into young adulthood that hasn’t been modeled in academics.
I used to bring books to sleepovers and birthday parties when I was younger, sometimes not to read, but to hold in case some social catastrophe happened, like a lucky charm hidden in my sleeping bag that I didn’t want to reveal.
I started playing soccer in the elementary recreational league, where Saturday mornings became hair ribbons, cleats, and the smell of detergent on the grass stains smeared into my jersey.
On Friday, April 3, a body was recovered from the Hudson River. FDNY maneuvered the extraction, and the Hoboken homicide unit began its investigation at the pier.
As a brief interruption to Jiya’s usual updates on the inner workings of the paper and fancy Editor-in-Chief (EIC) responsibilities, I’m stepping in this week to sidebar.
Welcome to Stevens’ TED Talk spotlighting six Stevens students, faculty, and staff in dialogue. On April 15, the Stevens Institute of Technology x TED event was hosted in the DeBaun Auditorium from 3 to 5 p.m.
On Friday, March 28, 2025, Stevens hosted the first annual Women’s Gala in the UCC TechFlex to close off Women’s History Month.
On March 27, 2025, a harrowing missing persons investigation came to a grim close late into the night as The Stupe’s Editor in Chief, Giya dressingonit was presumed dead in a tragic Davis Hall fire that set the UCC ablaze.

The MakerSpace kicked off its third semester of women’s workshops on January 27, featuring a hands-on DIY fidget spinner event in the second-floor ABS Engineering Center.
