It’s hard to escape coverage of the 2016 US presidential election. Even before March 2015, when the first major candidate — Ted Cruz — declared his candidacy, media pundits had already begun speculating...
The awkward silence following a Teaching Assistant’s question seems like an inevitable part of discussion section. The instructor, usually a young graduate student, tries to gently prompt students to...
As we hurtle toward the end of the academic year, each day flying by faster and faster, members of the class of 2016 chatter about how much we’ll miss our friends, our feelings about leaving Northwestern,...
Although the word was hardly used during my childhood, the notions of feminism and equality were the basis of the values my mom instilled in me. I’m fortunate to have been raised in an environment that...
Glamorous photos, cute pets, “dank memes” and updates from friends — those four categories compose about 80 percent of the content I see on Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter and Instagram. Occasionally,...
