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Drafting the Senior Year Bucket List

Earlier this week, sitting at the kitchen table surrounded by markers, crayons, and colored pencils, my roommate and I took part in, what some would call, a sacred college tradition — drafting the Senior Year Bucket List.

Unbelievable ears

The way we experience a medium impacts how we respond to it. As a musician, I like to talk about how we perceive sound as an example of this.

Do we have to ask this again?

We’re a month into the fall semester, and I’m already tired of answering these three questions. “What’s your name?” “What’s your major?”

Caught a case of FOMO

As we’re all beginning to settle into the semester, a wave of what is known as the “freshman flu” has hit a lot of us, myself included.

Stop pretending engineers should work with humanities

Engineers shouldn’t work with humanities. Radical as that sounds, the forced pairing between engineers and humanities creates resentment. Students meander through their essays, confused as to why they, as people who think in numerical systems, need to interpret Shakespeare.

Fail, get up, and try again

My last editorial expressed my concerns about how the administration hides behind its PR responses. And I would not be honest if I did not acknowledge how my week, once again, was consumed by issues revolving around the administration. 

Finance people, your clock just started

I’m an engineer so you might be thinking I have no business writing this article — and you might be right, but we’re inclusive here.

Take notes from Elizabeth Zott

As a Chemical Biology major, I picked up Bonnie Garmus’ Lessons in Chemistry expecting a story about science. I didn’t expect it to be a story about loss, or one of the most encouraging books I’ve read in a long time.