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New York: a wet dream

In honor of the third Hoboken water main break of the year, I’m going to write about an odd and underappreciated benefit of New York: the water.

An ode to Spring Break

I always hated midterms. The concept of having major cumulative exams and projects on top of regular homework assignments and campus activities is a recipe for sadness and a lot of coffee.

Is philosophy a kind of poetry?

This is the fourth in a series of posts on philosophy.

Last year, struggling to understand an especially dense philosophical paper, I was reminded of my youthful efforts to decode poets like Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens.

Don’t jump into The Hudson!

Hi, friends. How are you all doing? Well, I hope, but there is a lot going on. Did you have many midterms this week?

Turning 20: A two-decade journey to self-acceptance

By the time this article publishes, I will have already turned twenty — well, for all of two days, anyways.

I expected to be more excited than I actually am, but I’ve also seen that the older that I’ve gotten, the more birthdays have turned into more of an obligatory social commitment and a biological timekeeping mechanism, rather than a real celebration of sorts.

Data and soccer

This week I’m going to take influence from Soccernomics and take a look at a sabermetric approach to soccer. Specifically, why aren’t more clubs embracing the data revolution in soccer?

Crossing the Hudson

I suspect most of my readers know the typical ups and downs of the different ways of getting from Hoboken to the city.

Should philosophers stick to ethics?

This is the third in a series of posts on philosophy.

It must irk philosophers that any idiot thinks he can do what they do.

Fashion Week around the world

Fashion Week began in New York on February 9 and will end in Paris on March 8. Regardless of whether they’re in NY, London, Milan, or Paris, designers around the world are sharing a sneak peak of what to expect for Fall and Winter in 2017.