It’s finally December… so you know what that means! Yes — finally, after what felt like an eternity, the year of endless surprises is coming to a close — 2020 is soon approaching its end.
Posts published in “Mind of a Freshman”
Mind of a Freshman is an Opinion column written by one or two first-year Stevens students to discuss life experiences during their time at Stevens, and other related subject matter.
As the days shorten and temperatures continue to drop, something more than just the cold settles in. Yup, we’re talking about desperation.
We are currently in the middle of the semester, so classes are in full swing. For me, this means that work is beginning to pile up, and time is becoming more and more nonexistent.
Earlier this week, I was asked how the friend making process has been for someone who’s an online student three thousand miles away from campus.
When pondering about how life can be more appreciated, one of the most popular pieces of advice is to “count your blessings.”
Sometimes you hear something random from someone and it just sticks to you, like a yellow post-it note or a neon pink slinky hand.
Hand sanitizer, masks, and textbook guides for a “socially distant” social life – aka my freshman year back-to-school shopping list.
I don’t mean to state the obvious here, but this year’s different… like astronomically different.
Read Keenan Yates' first Mind of a Freshman column of the semester.
Freshman Julia Wierzbicki reflects on her high school graduation.
Now that we’ve been out of school for a while, people have begun to fall into their personal Quarantine Routines. There are quite a few interesting people you’ll come across (six feet away, of course) while we’re still in lockdown, so I thought I’d save some time and break it down for you.