Opinions
Opinions
Opinion: Wellness was never meant to be an achievement
I’ve started to wonder how much I actually know about my body. When I exercise, I can see my heart rate, calories burned and how...
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Opinion: Amidst recent backlash, MSI is more important than ever
I came to Occidental, thousands of miles away from my home in Virginia, completely unfamiliar with my surroundings but eager to learn. Participating in...
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Opinion: The Sparkletts plant sits vacant. Here’s what to do.
During my second week at Occidental, I had to get my medication from the CVS on York Boulevard. As I was heading home, I...
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Opinion: Write for your inner child
There is a scene in the 2010 animated Walt Disney movie “Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue” where Lizzy, a young human girl, works on...
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Opinion: Broadway should spotlight original productions
As both an audience member and writer of original musical theater, I have recently been disappointed to see a lack of originality in Broadway...
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Opinion: ‘The Odyssey’ is a movie about ‘Nobody’
Levi Lee -
Before I start, I’m aware someone will ask me if I saw it ‘the way it was intended’, in IMAX 70mm. The answer is...
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Opinion: LA should take transportation inspiration from across the Pacific
Ryan Kim -
Getting around Los Angeles stereotypically means surrendering a couple of hours a day to freeways that don't so much move cars as hold them...
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Lessons Learned: What is lost (and found) in translation
There’s an old maxim that says, "you only truly understand something once you’ve had to teach it to someone else." I've spoken English my whole...
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Opinion: Haircutting cuts deeper than we realize
I sat in a high and uncomfortable chair, which felt like one made for a man. I glanced at my small legs dangling as...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: Everything changes and nothing remains still
When I was little, I had extremely strict rules and expectations for my future: be a computer engineer like my father, start a nonprofit...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: Ask yourself, why not?
Every morning before middle school, my mom would say to me: “Be kind, be courageous and don’t mumble.” Much of my college experience has...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: A love letter to shared spaces
I grew up an only child, and it is safe to say that I came to college with a fear of shared spaces — communal bathrooms,...
