Summer Musings: The show must go on

By Ajay Batra / September 24, 2013

The grief surrounding Pierce's downfall is a sign that our campus is but a platform for the showpiece of each new year.

Summer Musings: Dead air

By Liam Leddy / September 20, 2013

University scheduling leaves a lot of us watching Netflix with our moms throughout September.

Summer Musings: Exploring “exceptionalism”

By Anastasia Golovashkina / September 17, 2013

My experience with September 11 contradicts Putin’s observations of the American people.

Summer Musings: Simple laughs, serious thought

By Jane Huang / September 13, 2013

Comedy’s often disarming façade should not bar it from academic attention.

Summer Musings: Confidence isn’t key

By Anastasia Golovashkina / September 10, 2013

The rush to achieve confidence can result in empty answers and overly simplistic understanding.

Summer Musings: Don’t hold the door for me

By Eleanor Hyun / September 6, 2013

Seemingly simple acts of courtesy become infinitely more complex when we examine their intent and effect.

Summer Musings: So long, farewell

By Kristin Lin / September 3, 2013

The increasing uncertainty of goodbyes leaves us questioning the nature of friendship.

Summer Musings: “Bach” to the basics

By Emma Thurber Stone / August 30, 2013

A step away from polished flings of previous seasons, the “sincerity” prized among characters in the reality TV show The Bachelorette opens up questions of what its audience wants to see—and why this is the case.

Summer Musings: A scholar’s playscape

By Ajay Batra / August 27, 2013

It is a shared desire for joy, and not an activity itself, that brings us together—whether when playing with others as a child or studying with others as an adult.

Summer Musings: Money for nothing

By Liam Leddy / August 23, 2013

Financial innocence at the Sydney International Terminal.

Summer Musings: Snippets and bits from the land down under

By Liam Leddy / August 20, 2013

This past May I received a Facebook message from my sister: “Hey, you want to go to Australia for two weeks in July?” “Uh, yeah.”

Summer Musings: The moral of the story

By Jane Huang / August 16, 2013

When the media criticizes entertainment for being a bad influence, it overlooks the audience’s ability to form a nuanced conception of right and wrong.