When people ask me to introduce myself, I break out in a cold sweat. As a self-proclaimed “complex individual” who probably needs to get off his high horse, how could I represent myself accurately...
I have over 115,000 photos on my phone. Most people, especially Mr. “manage storage” from my phone settings, tell me to delete some of them, but I can’t. A screenshot...
ChatGPT can’t make you a crossword puzzle I learned this the hard way when I signed up to be the Daily’s second-ever Crossword and Games editor. Notably, I took the position...
For many staffers at The Daily Northwestern, the April release of “The Devil Wears Prada 2” felt like a holiday. The Daily’s shoutout in the first movie solidified it as newsroom...
My looming graduation caused me to revisit Joshua Rothman’s article in The New Yorker, “Are You the Same Person You Used to Be?” which posits that everyone is either a divider...
This actually isn’t my first time preparing to leave Northwestern. Three Junes ago, I was so ready to transfer that I’d booked a U-Haul east, firmly convinced this school was...
One late night in The Daily Northwestern newsroom, we decided — while goofing around as usual — that, hey, studying abroad sounds fun! We perused the Global Learning Office website...
When the door slammed with a click, I knew something was wrong. A few futile jiggles of the door handle confirmed my fear: I was locked in an unknown hotel stairwell in the middle of...
When people ask if I’ll leave journalism, I wonder, instead, if journalism will leave me. When I got to Northwestern, I climbed the “journalism ladder” in hopes of telling...
“So, what are you doing after graduation?” Ensue the internal screaming. I spent most of this school year avoiding answering this question, wrestling with the uncomfortable feeling...
When I stepped inside Foxtrot on Friday, “Get Lucky” by Daft Punk was blasting through the speakers, and the song was too good to just ignore. I had to dance for a couple of minutes...
For 173 years, Northwestern University has been run by white men. Come summer, someone new will finally take the helm. The appointment of Mung Chiang is an undeniably monumental...
The announcement that Purdue University President Mung Chiang would be taking the helm at Northwestern caught faculty by surprise. So far, we’ve learned that he likes ice cream (a...
I’ve always looked back at my kindergarten self with a degree of reverence. I would come home every day with stacks of written stories and coloring pages. Vibrantly creative and viciously...
Recovery from injury takes a huge mental toll on athletes. They often contemplate whether the setback may be temporary or career-altering. The initial moment of an injury is one...
Blocking, unadding or ghosting an unfavorable addressee has, for better or for worse, become a common part of the modern interpersonal landscape. According to neuroscience...
