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Posts published in “Past Opinion Columns”

“Whiplash” Film Review

With Whiplash, director Damien Chazelle has created a tense, thrilling film that explores how far one is willing to go to achieve success in a competitive, merciless market.

Plum on the Run

You miss a lot of things while on co-op. Working 9-5 every day has its perks, namely a paycheck, but a lot of the goings on around campus tend to close down before getting back from work.

Microsoft announces a new browser: Project Spartan

Microsoft announced a new browser that will be replacing Internet Explorer in Windows 10 last week, code named Project Spartan. In addition to a new rendering engine, Spartan will have three new features.

Margherita’s: a celebration of homemade culture

A very snowy welcome back to everyone, both to campus for the “spring” semester and to Cuisine Corner. Hopefully you’ve come looking for a decent restaurant in Hoboken in which to kick off the semester, so I reached back to another restaurant I somehow had not visited since Freshman year: Margherita’s.

Heroes of the Storm beta impressions

Over the holiday season, I finally received a (long overdue, in my opinion) invitation to beta test Heroes of the Storm (HotS) – an upcoming Massive Online Battle Arena (MOBA) game by Blizzard Entertainment.

American Sniper: a shot to the soul

Editor’s note: this review contains some spoilers.

Whenever a film’s context is war, especially between the United States and the Middle East, there is inevitable controversy.

Online Black Friday shopping at a record high

Last Thanksgiving weekend was the strongest ever in online sales, with Americans spending just over $1 billion online on Thanksgiving Day, and $1.5 billion on Black Friday, according to Forrester Research.

Get hyped for 2015

For me, the introduction of Steam’s Exploration Sales marks the beginning of the end of the year. Video game fans of all kinds (save for Assassin’s Creed players) rejoiced in 2014 for the massive amount of great content.