Allie Goulding, Development & Recruitment Editor
November 13, 2018
Filed under Columns, Latest Stories, Opinion
In this series, a writer explores the everyday struggles of being a low-income student at Northwestern.
In my last column, I discussed the requirement I saw on many internship applications: “Previous internship experience is required.” This creates an unnecessary barrier to students who can’t afford to have previous unpaid inte...
Andrea Bian, Op-Ed Contributor
November 12, 2018
Filed under Columns, Latest Stories, Opinion
When I applied to Northwestern a year ago, I chose not to check the “Asian” box on the Common Application. I definitely wasn’t alone — most of my Asian-American peers and friends chose not to, either. As a high school...
A. Pallas Gutierrez, Columnist
November 12, 2018
Filed under Columns, Latest Stories, Opinion
My mother was accepted to University at Albany as a pre-med student in the early 1980s. She attended for two years, hated the program environment and didn’t go back. She started working in theatres in upstate New York running...
Catherine Buchaniec, Columnist
November 11, 2018
Filed under Columns, Latest Stories, Opinion
Last Tuesday, America put its left foot in front of its right for the first time since the 2010 midterm election: Democrats took back control of the House of Representatives. For those who live on this planet and who will most...
Alex Schwartz, Opinion Editor
November 7, 2018
Filed under Columns, Latest Stories, Opinion
My first time voting was in the 2016 election. I was excited to cast my vote for Hillary Clinton, eagerly awaiting morning of Nov. 9 when I’d say to myself, “I helped elect the first female president of the United States.”
I...
Cassidy Jackson, Assistant Opinion Editor
November 6, 2018
Filed under Columns, Latest Stories, Opinion
As a high school student, the term “entrepreneur” always drew up an image of the Bezos-prototype: white, male computer science major. Essentially, in my head, entrepreneurship represented everything I wasn’t. As a black...
A. Pallas Gutierrez, Columnist
November 6, 2018
Filed under Columns, Latest Stories, Opinion
Engineers mock theatre kids, theatre kids mock athletes and athletes mock journalists. Most people I know have at some point derided someone else spending time on something they love, usually because they don’t value that thing...
Catherine Buchaniec, Columnist
November 4, 2018
Filed under Columns, Latest Stories, Opinion
This story is not a new one; it is one ingrained in humanity’s history, the United States’s history.
From the ancient empires of Babylonia, Greece and Rome to the Middle Ages, from the Russian Empire during the nineteenth...
Marissa Martinez, Opinion Editor
November 4, 2018
Filed under Columns, Latest Stories, Opinion
There has been a huge surge, particularly among my generation, to go to the polls. Massive signup campaigns can be spotted on campuses and across many cities in the United States. National Voter Registration Day brought in a record...
Catherine Buchaniec, Columnist
October 28, 2018
Filed under Columns, Latest Stories, Opinion
When I was 12, I watched as ABC News covered Sandy Hook, questions forming in my bewildered mind. Why did this happen? Will this happen again? What are we going to do to stop this?
When I was 15, I pored over a New York Times...
Allie Goulding, Development & Recruitment Editor
October 25, 2018
Filed under Columns, Latest Stories, Opinion
In this series, a writer explores the everyday struggles of being a low-income student at Northwestern
Family Weekend comes at a weird point in the year. You just came back to campus — or got here for the first time — abou...
Alexandra Huang, Op-Ed Contributor
October 23, 2018
Filed under Columns, Latest Stories, Opinion
“How can I be as great as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk or Sir Richard Branson?” This question received more than 100 answers on Quora, getting responses from curious minds all over the world. This question is relevant...
