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Posts published in “Opinion”

What’s the point of finals?

Finals season is upon us, that necessary evil aiming to measure a semester’s worth of learning.

Evaluating students’ cumulative knowledge is a difficult and stressful task for both the student and the professor.

Lebanese Christmas

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. I’ve never had Thanksgiving turkey before, told people why I’m thankful for them, or argued with my family members about Donald Trump over a drumstick (although I’d really like to engage in one of those debates).

Thanksgiving thoughts

I have a lot of opinions on Thanksgiving and the decent-sized holiday break that we get because of it. It is a rough break to navigate because there is so much to do, and you just do not have as much time as some of the longer breaks you get.

It’s meat in a ball, do you really need a recipe?

Homemade meatballs are fantastic, cheap, and easy comfort food. Frozen meatballs have always confused me; it’s meat in a ball. You don’t have to be a professional to make a passable meatball.

Why do colleges invest in athletics?

Michigan vs. Ohio State, Bama vs. Auburn, Army vs. Navy — these are a few of the big college football rivalries played annually across the US.

A Stevens Institute of Technology Christmas special (Part 1)

Once upon a time, on the brink of the freezing Hudson River, lived Atilla the Duck and his two alien friends, Spaghetti and Meatballs, who were planning on applying to Stevens in the near future in an interplanetary exchange student program.

Scheduling sadism

Let me set the stage. I just got back from a trip to Ohio (shoutout RHA!), and it was 8 p.m.

Girl boss: nature or nurture?

I come from a long line of girl bosses — that’s the best way to describe my family. My mom, her mom, and all the moms going back as far as memory goes have lived badass lives and raised their daughters to be the same.