By Katrina Liu With so much free time, I’ve had a lot of opportunities to reflect on myself and what’s important to me. With our world flipped upside down in just a series of weeks, the entire globe has become introspective with little distractions. I’ve always set high expectations for myself, but never voiced them […]
Read More →By Sophia Yakumithis I prepared a loaf of bread during a seminar class on Monday because I had the camera turned off. And I can do what I want now that my governor put all of us under house arrest. It’s terrible, though, that I now feel such a sense of autonomy over not just […]
Read More →By Aasha Amber Bhatnagar Thinking I would be able to go to Marciano Commons’ vegan station every day after returning from spring break, I went vegetarian. That was before we heard from the university about campus closures amid the coronavirus outbreak in Boston. If I could imagine any other scenario as to how this semester […]
Read More →By Shaun Robinson I think the first time I realized how the coronavirus might change my study abroad experience in London this spring was when I went to a Brexit celebration. It was, in fact, the Brexit celebration, organized and headlined by the Brexit politician, Nigel Farage, on the night of the United Kingdom’s departure […]
Read More →By Michelle Lu Tian Remember when we said to ourselves that 2020 was going to be our year? Well, was I right? We rang in this new year with the Australian bushfires, then thought there was going to be a World War III. Next, a legendary athlete and his daughter passed away. But now? COVID-19, […]
Read More →By Sophia Yakumithis I’m fine. No, I’m not. But I am. But I’m not. I was expecting for us to go remote for the rest of the year since this all started going worse. In fact, I think I was more surprised about President Brown’s original decision to delay the verdict until the beginning of […]
Read More →By Aasha Amber Bhatnagar Boston University has recently become “Zoom University.” The Terriers are now the “Quaran-terriers,” we can show up to “class” wearing whatever we want and we can tune into lectures live from our beds. As someone from the West Coast, my 8 a.m.’s have recently become 5 a.m.’s, and the last thing […]
Read More →By Aasha Amber Bhatnagar Staying in shape in college presents a challenge for most students. Between cramming for midterms, turning in last-minute assignments before spring break and balancing a social life, going to the gym can feel like a monumental feat sometimes — especially for those of us at Boston University who don’t live on […]
Read More →By Autumn Moon I’ve always been the kind of person who tries to do it all. In high school, I was in clubs, played a sport, cared a lot about my grades and still regularly went out with friends and family. Coming to college, I wanted to maintain the way I had done things before. […]
Read More →By Michelle Lu Tian I started writing this piece the night before its deadline. I had the entire week, but I decided to put it off until today when I have heaps of homework waiting ahead of me. This is procrastination at its finest. I love procrastinating. It’s probably the only thing I’m a master […]
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