Welcome, undergraduate Class of 2019. Family and friends have been giving you well-intentioned undergraduate advice since your senior year of high school. By now you’ve received a number of diverse synopses—everything...
I entered my graduate program eagerly anticipating a stack of new books. The prospect of the program was nerve-wracking, and I anxiously wondered how much my hand skills would serve me in the lab and clinic....
An extra-long, dark blue mattress made its way across the stage during Columbia University’s graduation ceremony this May. As part of her senior thesis, visual arts student Emma Sulkowicz had been toting...
If you haven't noticed the trees budding, you can't have missed the complete lack of snow piled up on Cleveland’s sidewalks. For girls on campus, this means we can finally replace our jackets with...
Your university is the center of a poor city, a relic of the industrialized riverside hub it once was. Despite Case Western Reserve University’s expansion in recent years (Uptown and MOCA come to mind)...
I could not bring myself to admit to a new friend that I am a feminist, and as a woman of color in a male-dominated field, you’d think I’d be the last person to harbor any aversion to the term. Though...
This is sound advice. Not just from me, but from seven-year-old you, who couldn’t ever imagine becoming a doctor, dentist or lawyer just for perks. At seven, you wanted to be an astronaut, a teacher...
