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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,...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: An obvious metaphor between the moon mission and college
There’s a scene in Samantha Harvey’s 2023 book "Orbital" in which an astronaut on the International Space Station tells his daughter that progress is beautiful....
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Lessons Learned: (Re)making home at Occidental
I was in Spain in the fall, and now I am here, both again and for the first time. While Occidental could hardly be called...
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Opinion: What Democrats can learn from Ruben Gallego’s Senate victory in 2024
On the night of Nov. 5, 2024, my co-organizers and I were at our favorite restaurant celebrating the nearing culmination of the past months’ efforts....
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Opinion: There is no unconditional love
For the Merriam-Webster dictionary, “unconditional” is defined as “not conditional or limited.” For my mother, unconditional love is not the absence of conditions, but the weight...
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Opinion: ‘You and me got a whole lot of history’
It was December 2015. My sisters and I gathered on our olive green couch, anxiously waiting for a performance we had anticipated for months. One...
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Opinion: Joe Biden finalized our turn away from neoliberalism — it will be sorely missed
Donald Trump has been reelected president of the United States — and now, Joe Biden has entered his lame duck era. In the pages...
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Opinion: We need to write more about nuclear bombs
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists released their latest report Jan. 23 on the potentially world-ending dangers of nuclear escalation. The doomsday clock, which serves...
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Opinion: Black Myth: Wukong — what makes a video game so compelling?
Black Myth: Wukong is a recent action game developed and published by Game Science in 2024. The game is heavily inspired by the Chinese...
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Opinion: Grief that belongs, reflections on mourning the unknown
I woke up Oct. 7 thinking about nothing in particular. It was a Monday and I wasn’t ready to start the week, but the...
