The start of a new year and a new semester comes with a strange kind of pressure. New planners. New goals.
The Stute
Coming back from winter break can be difficult to adjust to. Maybe you want to be at home sipping on hot chocolate instead of doing homework.
Over winter break, I spent a few weeks in Wisconsin for a short internship in the Upper Peninsula. Despite the distance, my family and I drove a couple hours south to Milwaukee to see what the city had to offer.
The Winter Wonderland has been a recurring event at Stevens for over a decade, with this year’s being its 11th anniversary, whose exciting events took place on December 3 on Walker Lawn and directly outside of Babbio.
Because Hoboken’s recent nonpartisan general election ended without any candidate receiving a majority of votes (typically 51%), the city held a runoff election.
In October, the Sanctuary Policy Letter from the Student Body (LSB) was passed by the student body. This letter, which urges Stevens to adopt Sanctuary University protections for undocumented, international, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), and other legally vulnerable students, was formally reviewed by the Office of the President and the President’s Cabinet.
On November 26, two National Guard soldiers were shot in downtown Washington, D.C. Police responded within minutes, and the area was quickly shut down as bystanders fled for safety.
The fall semester has always been my favorite because of Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. Hoboken truly goes all out with decorating, and the city turns into an ornate and adorable village that could be straight out of a movie (and sometimes is with all of the filming that happens here).
I’ve been writing the Artist Spotlight column for nearly three and a half years now. In around five months, I’ll write my last Artist Spotlight article, rounding out a successful attempt at bringing digestible art-related content to my predominantly STEM-focused engineering school.
If you’re a co-op kid who spent the last few months refreshing LinkedIn like it was the Canvas gradebook after a brutal midterm…congratulations!