I did exactly one thing last weekend: study for my first Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics quiz. On Saturday, after five weeks of internally panicking, I very quickly began externally panicking, which was then followed by 36 hours of learning what I probably should’ve been keeping up with throughout the weeks prior to the quiz.
Posts published in “Past Opinion Columns”
Can you be too rich? I think so, and so does newly-elected Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. “I’m not saying that Bill Gates or Warren Buffet are immoral,” she said recently, “but a system that allows billionaires to exist when there are parts of Alabama where people are still getting ringworm because they don’t have access to public health is wrong.”
Off Center responds to a recent stream of letters to the editor.
Despite lurking in the underground scene of Tanzania’s former capital, Dar es Salaam, for 15 years, Singeli is ready to take over.
What a time to be alive. As a human race, it has been over 60 years since we first landed on the moon, and in the present day, we are preparing to go to Mars.
In my classes, I like making students ponder the pros and cons of knowledge. We talk about Plato’s parable, in which people imprisoned in a cave mistake shadows projected on a wall for reality.
Joseph Dolan explores the Green New Deal.
Democrats: The 1930s called and they want their policies back.
The darling of the Democratic Party, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Senator Ed Markey introduced a resolution for a “Green New Deal” in the House and Senate, respectively.
Science fiction has often warned us about cyborg warriors, mainstream journalism not so much. But several recent articles have focused on this potential peril, including one in The Atlantic titled “The Pentagon Wants to Weaponize the Brain.”
It is a sad week on campus as the Gatehouse, the last vestige of the great Castle Stevens that once ruled the local countryside with an iron fist, has been taken down for repairs.