Last week, I attended my first day of meditation class, during which I made friends with a woman called Joanna. With our yoga mats two feet apart, Joanna talked about how her forehead occasionally aches...
In a column in the New York Times’s opinion section, David Leonhardt advised college students, “Do not double major.” I’m going to do it anyway.
Leonhardt’s main argument is that college...
Majors don’t matter all that much.
Don’t get me wrong. They can indeed lead you down career paths, structure friend groups and define the academic focus of your college career. But the same thing...
The other day I was speaking with a professor — I’ll call him Prof. X — and he asked me why I chose to switch out of journalism as a major. Our conversation went as follows:
Prof. X: So why are...
Are some majors really harder than others?
I’ve always been a firm believer in the concept that anyone can do anything if they try hard enough. Can you be an engineer? Sure, if you put in the work...
