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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...
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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...
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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Opinion: Childhood pets leave us too soon
We all know that death is inevitable. Sorry to start this on such a downer, but it’s true — especially with our pets. I’m sure...
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Lessons Learned: How to be OK with being alone
For the past 19 years, my biggest fear has always remained the same. The most typical fears — heights, the dark, small spaces and snakes...
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Opinion: Five things I learned hitchhiking for the first time
It was 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday. I was standing at an intersection across the street from a gravel production plant, an empty commercial building and...
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Opinion: Occidental must do better for disabled students
Behind Stewie, next to the bench overlooking the LA horizon and the mounted pair of binoculars to better take in the view, is a slightly...
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Opinion: Finding old friends in new ones
My two roommates and I are close friends from high school that decided to go to Oxy together. Ever since we arrived here Aug....
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Opinion: New school, new city, new me?
On a normal day at Oxy I'll wake up, do my hair and makeup and walk out of the door. As my made-up face...
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Opinion: Claudia Goldin’s Nobel shows how far women have come, and how far society has to go
Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University, was the recipient of the 2023 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for her contributions...
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Opinion: Hollywood vs. originality
If someone compared my sentiment from the time I was 4 years old watching "The Wiggles" to my sentiment at 14 years old watching...
