In my house, leftovers were wrapped carefully. Emotions were not.
Long after the conversation fades, after chairs scrape back and plates are cleared, it remains — untouched or barely eaten.
The Stute
On February 15, the Baseball team had a season-opening victory of 5-3 against William Paterson University. Ensuring the win for the Ducks was senior pitcher David Finch, last year’s MAC Freedom Pitcher of the Year, who allowed William Paterson only one earned run throughout the game.
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro follows Klara, an android who dreams about being able to see the sun. She is an AF, or artificial friend, stuck in a department store, available for purchase but continuously waiting for that moment.
From February 12-15, the Men’s and Women’s Swim Teams participated in the 2026 Middle Atlantic Conference Championship in York, Pennsylvania. The four-day meet, featuring 11 colleges, marked the season’s final, biggest, and most significant competition, determining the MAC Champions.
There’s something about winter semester that makes internship anxiety louder. Maybe it’s the flood of LinkedIn announcements. Maybe it’s the group chat messages about who “heard back.”
In a clash between the No. 3 Stevens Ducks and the top-ranked Springfield College, Stevens fell short despite their dedicated effort.
I once again have the chance to write a For Math’s Sake column in the Valentine’s Day issue, which is a good opportunity to showcase the connections mathematics has with love and relationships, or share about how cultivating love for an at-times challenging and painfully frustrating subject can help in other areas of life.
This past year, I have gone on 10 first dates with the complete intention of remaining single. This may seem counterproductive, but in a society where we barely interact with people outside of our close circles, I took on this “challenge” as a way to better understand how our generation navigates dating generally, especially when it comes to meeting strangers.
Before starting my co-op, I had seen all kinds of leaders — from people who ran meetings by yelling the loudest, to people who barely raised their voice but somehow still commanded the room.
Stevens Master of Data Science graduate Vandna Rajpal and her team, Neural Navigators, received first place at the D3CODE 2025 Global Hackathon.