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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.

My newest obsession

So this week I was planning to write about food, but that was last night at 2 a.m.. Since then I have reached the new amazing idea of what I recently discovered.

Dress to Impress & the prisoner’s dilemma

If you haven’t noticed, the theme for this week’s paper is voting. Unfortunately, my political career started and ended with passing AP Gov, so I’d like to take this time to complain about the voting system in my favorite game: Dress To Impress (DTI).  

The smell that needs to be scent to Rikers Island

I first smelt it on my way to the Chinese Student Association meeting. Cruising down campus on my booster board to Burchard Hall with the wind rushing past me, I was enjoying the pleasant smell of the campus until my dream world got interrupted by something foul.

What is the college experience?

Most people’s biggest fear of entering college is their choice of major or making the right friends. My biggest fear is having college be High School Part 2. 

The hills that kill

There comes a point in everyone’s life where you need to say enough is enough. While for some, that might be because of an annoyingly strict professor or an overbearing parent, for me, it is none of those things.

Freshman anecdotes: rabies scare

It was around 1 a.m. and I was walking around the back of Pi Kitchen with a friend. I stumbled across a little furry blob on the floor and got down on the ground to look at it.

Becoming a kid again

If you had the chance, would you jump into a time machine back to your childhood? If you are like me, you will surely, and not for any reason related to escaping obligations.

Where am I?

We’re in that awkward part of the semester where classes are having their final tests before actual finals, you’re being forced to speak to people you haven’t talked to all semester for a project, and your four overdue assignments are lingering over your head.