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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: Corporate activism is the worst kind of activism
I recently stumbled upon something pretty enraging in the New York Times. It was a “paid post,” which is essentially an advertisement in article...
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Opinion: It’s possible and important to keep skateboarders safe on campus
Skateboarding has a long, somewhat fuzzy history. No one knows who invented the very first board on wheels, but they were first utilized and...
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Lessons Learned: How to hold on when you want to let go
Nobody wants to go to college with their older brother. No younger sibling wants to continue enduring the constant comparisons to him, risk running...
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Opinion: Let’s stop hoarding dreams
When one thinks of economic inequality, they may think of Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk with their ungodly billions of dollars. They are the...
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Opinion: How a pile of trash can break your heart
We’ve all seen it — the overflowing trash bins around the Marketplace. Litter spilling out in all directions, left to the wind’s devices until...
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Opinion: A love letter to dance
“Please, allow me to show you something…” The song "Drunk Dialing…LODT" by Summer Walker became an anchor for me this past year; her words helped...
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Opinion: UC Berkeley housing battle shows the limits of appealing to ‘community’
UC Berkeley was forced to cap its enrollment at 2020 levels March 3, jeopardizing the opportunity for thousands of students to attend the college....
Lessons Learned
Lessons Learned: How to engage again, after all this time
Last year, during the very beginning of the plague, The Occidental published a series called “Letters From,” in which dispersed Occidental students wrote about...
