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Optimizing your meals

Whether you are on a meal plan, cook for yourself, or order takeout every night, I’m sure there’s been a time when you wondered if you were getting the most bang for your buck.

Playing with House money: thoughts on the shutdown drama

While political intrigue may not excite the general readership as much as prison breaks, I found myself equally on the edge of my seat reading about how the US government narrowly avoided a shutdown as I was following the story behind my last column.

The drenched chronicles: a tale of soggy news and sunny spirits

It was a dark and stormy morning on Friday, September 29, at 7 a.m. when Isy and Ava set out to do the impossible: deliver the fourth issue of The Stute across campus — a seemingly ordinary day transformed into an unforgettable tall tale of two girls braving the Stevens deluge. 

Dangerous assumptions: stereotypes about autism

Autism, as we are discovering in this column, is shrouded in mystery — enhanced by the problematic nature of defining what autism is and the vast diversity of individuals who identify on the autism spectrum.

Artist Spotlight: Jeffrey Smart

In this week’s Artist Spotlight, I will be covering the Australian Precisionist and contemporary realist landscape painter Jeffrey Smart, one of Australia’s most celebrated artists for his unique perspective on the industrial landscapes of the modern age.

Is it lonely at the top?

You may be familiar with the phrase, “it’s lonely at the top.” This common phrase has roots back to the 15th century; “Uneasy lies the head of the crown” was scripted in Henry IV, Part 2, William Shakespeare’s play about the prominent English King.

A taste of home

I’m a first-generation Arab student. Given that many of us are here, I was excited to head to Stevens during my freshman year.