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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....
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to drink from a fire hydrant
My mom likes to say that sometimes life is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. I think this is her...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: From first-year roommates to dear friends
Culture editor Katie Moore and Opinions editor Shreya Srinivasan reflect on their college journey, starting as first-year roommates, staying in touch through the pandemic,...
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Opinion: Republicans’ war on trans youth is a war on all of us
Texas. Florida. Virginia. Even, yes, California. All of these states have seen bills introduced (or passed) that attempt to clamp down on the freedom...
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to get used to men, or not?
I don’t think I realized that my seven years of all-girls school had impacted me in any formative or traumatic way until I stepped...
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Opinion: ‘Everything Everywhere’ has its own universe in China
Renee Ye -
Imagine a parallel universe: Where most of the dialogue in "Everything Everywhere All at Once" sounds like gibberish; where the film was never streamed in...
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Opinion: Did you see the strikeout heard ’round the world?
Emma Cho -
The greatest two-way baseball player to walk the planet struck out the best hitter in our country March 21. The world was watching — were you? Baseball might be America’s pastime,...
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Opinion: How a 20-foot container, and a few laws, changed the world
Your clothes were probably made in Bangladesh, and your shoes in Vietnam. Your phone was probably assembled in China, and its processor was probably...
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Opinion: Bethany Hamilton wipes out on the wave of change
Heʻe nalu is the Native Hawaiian term for surfing — heʻe means “to slide” and nalu means “to ponder.” It’s a fluid term, one that is meant to mimic the water's natural...
