Hey everyone! My name is Jeylan. I’m a 4/4 Industrial and Systems Engineering major stacking an accelerated master’s, and a former co-op dropout!
Posts published in “Opinion”
Truth forms when creativity meets reality. The reality dawned on me in my second semester, when I noticed the erratic behaviors of technology.
Welcome back Stuters!!
This summer not only changed the way I view The Stute but reassured me that we have a strong year ahead of us!
Richard Carlson’s Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff… and It’s All Small Stuff is the perfect book to kick off a brand-new school year.
Four lessons I have learned now that my four years are up. Thank you to Stevens for giving me the bestest of friends, experiences, and opportunities.
While my master’s degree was full of “firsts,” these past two semesters also included a lot of “lasts.” I’ve spent the past year thinking about what my lasts would be.
My favorite quote of all time is from the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, and it goes “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”
These last few weeks, I have found myself really thinking about windows of time. As cliché as it sounds, four years, four months, four weeks, and four days should really feel different, and they do, but in an unconventional way.
Up until this point in our lives, life outside of school seemed almost imaginary. Over the course of the last four years, we exchanged early bedtimes for late nights filled with studying and socializing, swapped class schedules for Workday registrations, gave up summer breaks for professional growth, and left behind our hometown history to shape new identities in a place with seemingly boundless opportunity.
I’ve really had to think hard about the last three years because so much has happened. In reality, they feel a lot like a blur, with alarms set before sunrise, rushing out the door half-awake, bouncing between work, school, home, and hitting “submit” on assignments way too close to the deadline.