As we ease our way into the Autumn season, I always find this time of the year to be a challenge.
Posts published in “Opinion”
Balancing school, social life, work, extracurriculars, and/or whatever you are involved in is a challenge. To me, balancing the different aspects of your life is the most necessary skill an individual should have aside from learning how to learn.
You put on your shoes and pick up your backpack that has been lying by your desk for the past 18 months.
Introduction
On September 18, union workers for the Nabisco corporation, producer of treats such as Oreos and Fig Newtons, voted to end their five-week strike.
It was November of 2018. I was working on my application for graduate programs. Seven tabs on Google Chrome were open — three of which belonged to the universities I was interested in, two of them were dedicated to the courses offered.
I’ve been hard on American medicine. Americans are over-tested, over-diagnosed and over-treated, I’ve argued, because physicians and hospitals in our capitalist culture care more about profits than patients.
Lina‘s mother’s dying wish was for her to go to Italy and meet her father. In all her 16 years of life, he has never once tried to get in touch with either of them.
This past summer I read Alan Rusbridger’s Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now. And I loved it.
For the latter half of my childhood and early teenage years, I was on a competitive swim team. I had practices 6 days a week, 2-3 hours a day, so making sure I was getting enough exercise was never really on my radar because it simply didn’t have to be.
College is full of twists and turns, ups and downs, and an occasional loopty-loop thrown in for good measure. You might be a current college student who is experiencing motion sickness on the roller coaster that is student life.