It is so important to be authentic and to be proud of who you are. I don’t like to generalize often, but I feel like most Stevens students, faculty, and administrators all have a certain down-to-earth goofiness and aren’t afraid to show it.
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The Stute Editorial is an Opinion column written by the current Editor in Chief of The Stute to address and explain editorial decision making, discuss news and media issues, and develop a sense of trust and transparency between readers and members of The Stute.
The only thing that gets me through finals (other than coffee) is looking forward to the relaxing summer and then the new start next semester.
It is so easy to get caught up in the things that aren’t great at Stevens. Just pick up any issue of The Stute and you’re sure to find a variety of complaints covering academics, extracurricular, and Greek life.
Originally, I was going to talk about why being detailed-orientated is never overrated. Actually paying attention to what you’re doing and rechecking information is something that we all should do.
I spent last weekend running around campus “event hopping.” If you have ever opened up one of the Student Life Newsletter emails (which you definitely should because there is a lot of information about campus activity in general) or visited the Ducksync Events Calendar, you should know what I’m talking about.
Some of you older ducks may have noticed great changes in The Stute during the past few years, but the freshmen are lucky enough to only know a quality campus newspaper – what we have internally named “Nu Stute.”
Entering the past weekend, I was prepared to begin my last five columns. At our penultimate executive board meeting, I suddenly realized that this was my last issue on the E-board and as editor-in-chief.
Whether it’s the pursuit of romance or fiscal stability, the knee-jerk promotion of one person or job to the status of “the one” is the most troublesome and difficult instinctual reaction to rewrite, especially because it can be so consuming and debilitating.
With the anticipation of primary elections (discussed two columns down), the anxiety of obligations, and the imminence of graduation for some, there is a danger of getting swept up in a quickening torrent of work, practices, meetings — life.
After I saw the DeBaun Performing Arts Center’s (DPAC) performance of William Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” I was eager and excited to pen a review and include in the next issue of The Stute — and I did.