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The Stute

Strangers

I think Taylor Swift says it best: “Please don’t ever become a stranger whose laugh I could recognize anywhere.” Even though I’m not exactly sure who she is talking about,  whenever I hear this lyric, I can’t help but relate, especially as I slowly approach the end of my time in college.

A trippy stay with The Hour of the Star

The Hour of the Star by Clarice Lispector is a short novella following our narrator, Rodrigo, as he tries to tell a story about a poor woman named Macabea.

Commuter lunch

My lunch is never warm by the time I eat it.

By noon, it has absorbed the rhythm of the commute: the shaking of the train, the rush of staircases, the pressure of moving with purpose.

Stevens set to establish School of Computing

The Stevens Board of Trustees has approved the establishment of the Stevens School of Computing, which will serve as the basis of computing and AI education.

Igor Pikovski awarded $1.3 million grant for graviton detection

The two pillars of modern physics, quantum theory and Einstein’s theory of general relativity, seem incompatible with each other. For those pillars to align, gravity would have to obey quantum physics and be mediated by particles known as gravitons.

Alex Pretti killed by Border Patrol in Minnesota ICE protest

Alex Pretti was a 37-year-old ICU nurse at the Minneapolis Veterans Affairs (VA) Health Care System, who was fatally shot by a Border Patrol officer on Saturday morning, January 24, 2026, because he was filming a CBP officer during an ICE protest.

Snow day olympics: Stevens edition

As heaps of snow engulfed Hoboken, walking down Wittpenn Walk suddenly felt like being transported onto an ice skating rink, using sneakers instead of skates on a slippery slope.