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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....
Opinions
Social well-being pre-, during and post-pandemic
After being sent home to Guangzhou, China, from my study abroad program in Germany, I was put in a mandatory two-week hotel quarantine. It...
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the editor: A silent cry for help among student athletes
The challenges from COVID-19 came quickly and expanded rapidly, starting with Occidental students having to leave campus with less than a week of notice....
Opinions
Dear Saudi Arabia, please don’t buy my favorite soccer team
When I was 7 years old, I watched the movie “Goal!” — a wish-it-was-true story in which a poor, undocumented teenager named Santiago Muñez...
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the editor: Choose equity, Occidental
Letters to the editor are traditionally edited for clarity, Associated Press (AP) style and grammar. This letter was published as submitted to allow readers...
Letters to the Editor
Letter to the editor: A proposed academic change for equity by Occidental students
Letters to the editor are traditionally edited for clarity, Associated Press (AP) style and grammar. This letter was published as submitted to allow readers...
Opinions
Climate change denier Naomi Seibt is not a threat
Greta Thunberg’s emotional speech at the United Nations (UN) Climate Action Summit in 2019 rattled our social media feeds. She shed tears as she...
Opinions
We should still celebrate Earth Month in the time of COVID-19
As spring in Minnesota has slowly arrived, I have noticed more of my neighbors walking through the local parks and playing outside with their...
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Why we should hope to never return to normal
It should be clear that "normal" is what got us here. And yet — as this disease kills scores each day, as cities slump into...
