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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: Taking a WAC-ky risk
At the beginning of the fall semester, I was sitting on the AGC steps after dinner when my friend Cady told me she was...
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Opinion: Why do I support geoengineering?
Before the creation of modern industrial society, it’s hard to say that life for humans was “good” in any meaningful capacity. More than half...
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Opinion: Mitski’s vulnerability is something we need to confront in ourselves
After ages of listening to whatever is on the top charts, I’ll try to find something reliable, something that brings out the past. I...
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Lessons Learned: 1,000 Days of Duolingo
Thursday, April 22, 2021, I completed a Duolingo lesson in Mandarin Chinese. I didn’t think much of the lesson or the app at the...
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Opinion: What the rise of the mocktail means for America’s drinking culture
In a country where your 21st birthday opens the gates to adulthood, drinking alcohol is a rite of passage. Despite a plethora of research...
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Lessons Learned: How seasickness taught me to fail
Content warning: This article discusses suicide. I wouldn’t make a good sailor. Boy scout outings and biology labs have washed me out to sea a...
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Opinion: Algorithm, who should I love for eternity?
Headlines such as “Forget Dating Apps — the 'Marriage Pact' Goes for the Long Haul” and “The Kids Are Making ‘Marriage Pacts’ to Distract...
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Lessons Learned: Notes from the Soler Glacier
It rained for three days straight before we could climb the pass. Ceaseless and loud, large blue drops of water poured off of our...
