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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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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Opinion: Voice messages from Dubai
One of the saved world clocks on my Clock app is Dubai. They are 11 hours ahead of us in LA. Right now, as...
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Opinion: We’ve looked at LA from both sides, now
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Opinion: A love letter to Dance Production
I grew up as an athlete, going from soccer in kindergarten, to speedskating in elementary and middle school. Lacrosse was the first sport, however,...
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Lessons Learned: Five things I learned in my first year of college
A little over a year ago, I got my acceptance letter to Oxy. Throughout high school, I imagined what college would be like. I...
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Opinion: How the Alexander Technique changed my life
The world moves fast. So fast that in that hurricane of parties, papers, job searches, friends, family, relationships and all the while trying to...
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Opinion: Everyone has their own plates to fill. Here’s what mine looks like
Content warning: The following article discusses eating disorders. A proxy can refer to many things. In a literal sense, it means a person who acts...
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Opinion: Red line, green line, is a formal deployment of NATO advisors to Ukraine beneficial?
Tensions spiked between the NATO alliance and Russia Feb. 26 when NATO member Slovakia’s prime minister Robert Fico claimed multiple NATO members were considering deploying troops to...
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Lessons Learned: How roller skating (kind of) saved my life
Content warning: The following article discusses depression. Feb. 23, 2024: instead of the high static friction between my shoes and the ground, there are wheels...
