Our sophomore year, we lived in a Grad Center suite right next to the tower鈥檚 entryway. Nestled between the entryway and our suite, there was a shelf labeled with a paper sign marked 鈥淭RADING POST.鈥� For the first few weeks, the shelf was dotted with old biochem textbooks and broken hangers, discarded ...
I forget exactly when I first became uneasy with my photograph.
Few topics that compel discourse quite like public education. Whether about book bans or science curricula, conversations surrounding K-12 classrooms lay bare our greatest hopes and deepest inadequacies as a democratic society. We tend to think about the great inequalities of the American public education ...
In her column, Alissa Simon 鈥�25 argues that gender-based communities on campus remain valuable even in a modern, coeducational environment.
On the sixth night of Chanukah, which is also Christmas Eve, I am awake and burning in my childhood bed. It isn't a flame, but a computer running on my bare stomach that sears a red spot into my skin. But I can鈥檛 find it in myself to move. Not quite a week has passed since coming home, and I鈥檓 ...
Last September, I wrote about how, even as a new student, I knew that this year at Brown was destined to be different. Seven months later, I feel confident that my prediction was correct, although it is impossible to pinpoint exactly what made this year unique. As a first-year student, there is no ...
If you have a TikTok account, you鈥檙e probably familiar with Duo 鈥� the bright green owl mascot of the language learning app Duolingo. On Duolingo, Duo encourages users to practice daily conjugations and vocabulary, but on the official Duolingo TikTok account, ...
If you have a TikTok account, you鈥檙e probably familiar with Duo 鈥� the bright green owl mascot of the language learning app Duolingo. On Duolingo, Duo encourages users to practice daily conjugations and vocabulary, but on the official Duolingo TikTok account, Duo has a 鈥渇ull-fledged personality鈥� ...
Spring is here, and with it, crocus buds, blustering winds and college decisions from schools across the country. Brown offered admission to a mere 3.6% of its regular decision applicants and 5% of applicants overall for the class of 2026. Applications were at an all-time high this year, breaking ...
Forty-nine years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that a woman鈥檚 right to privacy, bodily autonomy and choice was protected by the U.S. Constitution 鈥� legalizing abortion and outlawing states from placing undue restrictions on a woman鈥檚 right to choose. Four months ago, I bundled ...
