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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,...
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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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The news is distressing but it doesn’t have to be
Let us get the obvious out of the way — it is not fun to read the news right now. Between political pundits arguing about who will...
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My not-so-hot Italian semester: how coronavirus hysteria plagued my study abroad experience
While I was studying abroad in Rome, Italy, an IES Abroad Rome administrator emailed all its participants Feb. 24 stating that we would have online...
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College students should not have overlooked Amy Klobuchar
Sen. Amy Klobuchar did the most Minnesota thing ever when she announced her presidential run Feb. 10, 2019, in the midst of a snowstorm. Comically...
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The career fair isn’t fair to introverts
Many of the seniors on campus can attest to the fear that strikes deep in our hearts when thinking about the job we need...
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We need more representations of affirmative consent in media
By age 14, I had pieced together my sexual knowledge using a heavy-handed Catholic lecture on abstinence in Sunday school, a year-long “health” class...
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Connecting on LinkedIn only fosters disconnection
Instagram has a well-documented history as a wrecking ball of young adult mental health, but on LinkedIn, our shameless self-promotion wears the patina of corporate respectability. I...
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Middle Eastern identifying students deserve more recognition on campus
As an Armenian student who has been at Occidental for almost three years now, I am still looking for a recognized Middle Eastern community here....
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I moderated Oxy Confessions and now it needs to die
It's Feb. 24, and Oxy Confessions just posted for the first time in a month. Obsessively checking for updates, speculating about the moderator's identity and anonymously complaining...
