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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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Letter to the Editor: On the Foreign and the Familiar
Hello there. Perhaps the most challenging part of this letter is identifying its addressee — whether it is the Editor, the Reader, or the...
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Lessons Learned: How to talk about philosophy without getting punched
Philosophy is a notoriously pretentious subject. It evokes names like Kant and Aristotle and Kierkegaard, that belong to dead white men who probably said and did a lot of...
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Opinion: Affirmative action may die, but racial diversity in higher education need not
In front of the U.S. Supreme Court is currently a case known as “Students for Fair Admissions (SFFA) v. Harvard,” which is revisiting the...
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Opinion: Responding to Kanye’s perpetuation of antisemitism
In early October, I was scrolling through my Instagram feed and saw that Ye West (formerly known as Kanye West) made some antisemitic remarks online. Around...
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Letter to the editor: Occidental underutilizes its small classes
At my high school in New York City, all of our classes were conducted in a seminar style. Because classes catered to student discussions,...
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Opinion: Independence means turning off location tracker, parents!
With all the hullabaloo around conspiracy theories that cite vaccines as vehicles of covert government surveillance through microchips, it’s easy to forget that there...
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Opinion: On the African History section of bookstores
Lacking. This is the overall quality and conclusion that many African-descended and African people can come to when visiting most bookstores in the United...
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Opinion: The-K Billboard Awards are another strategically xenophobic move against Korean artists
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One step forward, one step back. On Oct. 24, Billboard announced a new segment of their music award show: The-K Billboard Awards. The event reportedly has the...
