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When physics laws are broken

Ever study for a test only to find your mind blank once you read the first question? Now, this would not be an issue on a small quiz, but the exam I took the past week holds 35 percent of

my physics grade.

Maintaining a balance

As we’re scarily one-fifth of the way through the semester, I have taken some time to reflect on the past few weeks, as well as my entire college experience, seeing how it will be coming to an end so soon.

A stroll around Battery Park City

This past weekend, the weather was too lovely to stay inside. I decided to walk with temperatures reaching the 50s and the sun shining.

Atonement

It’s a sweltering summer day in England, 1935, and the teetering Tallis family drape themselves across their upper-class country house. Like dolls being perfectly positioned throughout the home, we meet the Tallis children—Leon, Celia, and Briony—from oldest to youngest as they linger between a misspent summer and a scandal that will alter their lives and scatter their bonds forever.

Hieronymus Bosch:  The art of the unsettling

For centuries, humans have been obsessed with the unsettling. In the modern age, we continue to embrace the horror genre, typically in cinema, literature, or other entertainment mediums.

On gatekeeping

The word “gatekeep” has grown in popularity over the last few years, most famously in the phrase “gaslight, gatekeep, girlboss.” Gatekeep: the act of gatekeeping — to control access to something in an attempt to exclude others.

Hearty tomato soup

If you’re looking to impress someone this week, consider making them a meal, and there’s really no easier place to start than soup.

Love, in the college sense

I feel as if I have been in college for decades at this point, perhaps eons. Every day I grow more tired of the mundane and meaningless and yearn for something uplifting.