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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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Think the NZ Shooting “isn’t us?” History says otherwise
There should be little surprise about the recent mosque attack in New Zealand. Sadness, yes. Shock, maybe. Surprise, no. These continued attacks — in New Zealand,...
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Armenian women show that feminism is more than a t-shirt
Feminism is more than raising a poster with a feminist slogan and more than a t-shirt that says “feminist." Feminism is about women breaking...
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College admissions should show fairness, not favoritism
A few weeks ago, I was reading a high schooler’s essay about her experience learning English and her relationship to American culture through cinema. In...
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Should Oxy rescind an honorary degree to a racist recipient?
In his book “Applied Eugenics,” written in 1918, Paul Popenoe wrote: “No matter how much one may admire some of the Negro's individual traits,...
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Oxy should take more measures against mental illness
Our generation is experiencing a record-breaking mental health epidemic. 48.2 percent of college students experience anxiety and 34.5 percent experience depression, according to the Association for...
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You can’t swipe left on human interaction
At the end of my senior year of high school, I was dating a guy named Jack from my local college. I told my...
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Therapy Mythbusting: Why you should trust therapy
I recently had a conversation with a friend where she expressed concern about her boyfriend. I gently asked if she knew if he had...
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Why you should fly solo on your next vacation
Every year, college students flock to tropical, beachy destinations for spring break with their friends. In 2018, 9.5 percent of spring break travelers flew to Orlando,...
