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The Space Race in Fashion

What a time to be alive. As a human race, it has been over 60 years since we first landed on the moon, and in the present day, we are preparing to go to Mars.

Roma

Alfonso Cuarón’s 2018 black-and-white, slow-paced film Roma, follows Cleo, played by Yalitza Aparicio, the live-in housekeeper of a well-off middle-class family in 1970s Mexico, for one year as she traverses love, pregnancy, a violent protest, caring for the family, and coming to terms with a tragic event.

Reputations, nothing but perceptions

What's in a name
If not one's reputation?
The words that 
Flood
A person's brain at the thought of a name.

Painful reality or pleasant delusion?

In my classes, I like making students ponder the pros and cons of knowledge. We talk about Plato’s parable, in which people imprisoned in a cave mistake shadows projected on a wall for reality.

Drawing the Line on the #Hustle

For someone who writes a weekly column, I (admittedly) don’t read very much as far as news and blogs go. I wish I did, and I know it’s taken a toll on my stylistic growth (or lack thereof).

Where has the time gone?

I’m not really the type of person who doodles during class. I’m more of the pen-tapper, knuckle-breaker, glancing-at-the-clock-every-five-minutes type of person.

“Don’t Be Tommy Daly”

During my time as President, a series of negative opinion pieces were published about me by a Mr. Mark Krupinski. Although I felt they were unfair, both my Cabinet and I held our tongues in an attempt to “be the bigger person.”

Beignets over cheesecake

As opposed to a lot of Stevens students, I’m not from New Jersey. My home is New York, and I grew up frequently visiting Manhattan.

The disastrous Green New Deal

Democrats: The 1930s called and they want their policies back.

The darling of the Democratic Party, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Ed Markey introduced a resolution for a “Green New Deal” in the House and Senate, respectively.