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Theater: My escape from life’s comedies and tragedies

If I’m being honest, I can’t remember a time when I was in school and wasn’t stressed. Even in middle school when I really shouldn’t have been so worried about schoolwork, I was fixated on being the best of the best.

Am I stressed?

Mental health has become an increasingly difficult subject to navigate in the public sphere. Every movement advocating for the de-stigmatization of mental health issues ostensibly invites a pushback that claims millennials and Generation Z are overly sensitive and mental health does not warrant a concerted effort to maintain.

Feeling isolated

In recognition of this special issue of The Stute, I wanted to cast light on environmental factors that may contribute to the mental health issues we have seen among our students.

Talking about mental illness

The mind-body problem is the deepest mystery of existence. Narrowly speaking, it asks how a brain — a mere chunk of matter, a bundle of quarks and electrons — makes a mind.

On a lighter note: female friendships

A piece of advice I’d like to impart to other women about their friendships is something I have to remind myself constantly: women are not perfect.

Food matters

The title says it all

Stevens physicist Chris Search critiques his field

Chris Search, a professor of physics, is one of my favorite Stevens people. I like having him speak to my science-writing students because they love hearing him riff about physics and other science-related topics.