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Doors of Howe

The latest punishment for violating the Stevens Honor System has been doled out: a student, Jeremy Wilkerson, has been sentenced to opening the notoriously heavy leftmost front door of Howe.

Friends and Lovers

Two days ago, a girlfriend I’ve known since freshman year left our small, shared group chat. There wasn’t any warning, per se.

When the cramming begins, let Spotify take over

I did exactly one thing last weekend: study for my first Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics quiz. On Saturday, after five weeks of internally panicking, I very quickly began externally panicking, which was then followed by 36 hours of learning what I probably should’ve been keeping up with throughout the weeks prior to the quiz.

Hiking shoes take over

It hasn’t been long since the trend of dad shoes
(clunky models) passed the mantle to hiking shoes, which are bulkier shoes that
also look like they belong right on a hiking trail.

The case for soaking the rich

Can you be too rich? I think so, and so does newly-elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “I’m not saying that Bill Gates or Warren Buffet are immoral,” she said recently, “but a system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of Alabama where people are still getting ringworm because they don’t have access to public health is wrong.”

“Be Tommy Daly”

Off Center responds to a recent stream of letters to the editor.

Singeli’s jump to mainstream

Despite lurking in the underground scene of Tanzania’s former capital, Dar es Salaam, for 15 years, Singeli is ready to take over.

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.