Despite the global downturn in crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried still began his week as a billionaire. By the end, both he and his empire have fallen from grace to the depths of bankruptcy.
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Claire
Being sick sucks, and getting sick in college only makes it worse. This past week, I got sick and was once again reminded of how horrible it is to go through classes while feeling under the weather.
Yes, this is meant to mimic the notorious dialogue from the movie, Ten Things I Hate About You, a perfect example of the cultural nostalgic zeitgeist that longs for 90s romantic comedies (minus the DVDs and cis-white cast).
On October 3, 2022, Kanye West wore a “White Lives Matter” shirt to his Paris Fashion Week event, a phrase that the Anti-Defamation League categorizes as a hate statement.
You’ve seen them, we love them, we’ve seen them, and you love them: the Squirrels of Stevens. But are they doing the best they could?
A few months ago, I was at the peak of my sustainability journey. It’s not that I have stopped caring about the environment, but I realized that instantly eliminating all plastic from my life is depriving myself of too many things at once.
Claire:
Right now! While it seems ridiculous to start applying for a job half a year before you start working, now is actually the best time to find a job.
I have a tendency to sleepwalk through my days, performing tasks automatically: roll out of bed, eat cereal with banana slices, teach freshman humanities class.
As important as art is to me now, I do not think it was this way my whole life. Yes, I am one of the kids who loved arts and crafts and even doodled everywhere since I could first remember.
In what was later described by the professor as, “The most comprehensive collective failure of knowledge acquisition and retention by a group of organisms more evolved than the archaea Candidatus Huberarchaeum,” twenty-five students managed to absolutely obliterate a test last week to such an extent no one involved is still on track to graduate.