Omer Mungan

omungan@binghamton.edu

5 Articles


Columns

Overcome misery by choosing compassion

There is a specific, suffocating heaviness that settles over a room when someone walks in and immediately unpacks their exhaustion. You know the exact feeling. You’re sitting with friends, enjoying a rare...


Columns

The cost of silence

Life begins with a scream. In a hospital delivery room, silence is deeply terrifying. Doctors and nurses anxiously wait for that piercing wail because it is proof of vitality, signaling that a...


Columns

The echo of an empty chair

There is a strange, comforting illusion we all fall for in college — the illusion of permanence. We silently convince ourselves that the people we see every single day will always be...


Opinions

The invisible ledger

Imagine you have a free hour — no classes, no meetings, no homework due at midnight. You should feel relieved. Instead, you feel anxious. You sit down to relax, but a voice...


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Finding perfection in our flaws

We live in the era of the highlight reel. By merely walking through a campus career fair or scrolling through LinkedIn during internship season, you will be instantly bombarded with images of...