I have never really understood nostalgia. The concept of feeling nostalgic always seemed very strange to me. Everyone I know, at one point, has seen something, heard something, or even smelled something that, they say, “brings them back to a better time.”
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As I reflect on last week, I am chuckling at myself. The essentially homework-less, stress-less, dare I say “fun” beginning to my year was not destined to continue past week four.
As a science journalist, I try to raise questions about science and technology, which dominate our era. I try to do the same thing as director of the Center for Science Writings, which I started a dozen years ago here at Stevens.
On Monday night, I spent nearly four hours sitting in the corner of the dining hall. I was trying to figure out some homework, but more importantly, I was trying to write my article.
On the evening of Sept. 15, a handful of Stevens Orchestra students attended the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra (RSO) concert, ‘FALLA, CHOPIN, and TCHAIKOVSKY’.
The University of California, Berkeley was the birthplace of the free speech movement in the 1960’s. Today, it is the home of the ironically named “anti”-fascist movement.
For a few decades now, conservative students have claimed that they are a minority on college campuses. They’ve insisted that professors are more likely to be disproportionately liberal compared to the general population and that liberal thought permeates through every aspect of academic life.
There are approximately 24 male directors for every female director in Hollywood.
24.
You might be asking yourself, “Why is that ratio so large?
It’s 2005. Your mother’s Motorola RAZR is state of the art in the world of pink engineering. By 2007, 130 million RAZR phones had been sold.
I may not speak for all of us, but I imagine we don’t all love every second of being in school/work and would rather be somewhere else.