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Creativity has become too individualized

By Ronan Goddard -

Has anyone ever just been sitting on the couch when out of nowhere, your dad drops the most insane story you’ve ever heard in your life? My dad has plenty of “dad...

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The geography of luck

By Omer Mungan -

When I first arrived in the United States as an international student from Turkey, I found myself navigating a fascinating series of culture shocks. I vividly remember sitting in a dining hall...

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Don't live through your Instagram feed

By Kayla Cloherty -

Many of us may be familiar with the term “do it for the gram.” While on the surface it is a funny phrase about doing something outrageous for social media, I believe...

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Worth can't be measured on a 4.0 scale

By Omer Mungan -

We live in a world that is fundamentally obsessed with measurement. For a Binghamton University student, life is often reduced to a series of quantifiable metrics — credit hours, LinkedIn connections, internship...

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I always feel like somebody's watching me

By Deirdre Pryal -

You are being watched all of the time, whether you notice or not. From supermarket monitors to your own phone, your every move is tracked and recorded. But these are all normal...

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Learning new things is worth the struggle

By Allison Bonaventura -

Childhood was centered around experiencing a variety of things for the first time and pursuing activities to find passions, inspirations and time to practice skills. But as we progress into adulthood, opportunities...

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It's time to embrace letting go

By Gisselle Tapia -

Sometimes I feel like Dory from “Finding Nemo.” I learn my lesson time and time again, only to always return to the same genius revelations. I came to this realization recently when...

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A first-year’s rant about college

By Joe Zeng -

I’m currently stuck in a limbo. One half of me feels like I’ve grown drastically from the beginning of the fall semester. My face has matured. I’ve started putting events on a...

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Reassess why you read

By Megan Buchovecky -

Apps like Goodreads and Letterboxd have become increasingly popular in recent years, allowing users a means to log, rate and review media. The apps track books, movies and TV shows, respectively, and...

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Embrace the uncertainty of your college years

By Myah Meunier -

I am the type of person who has to-do lists and reminders for everything in my personal, academic and work life. I balance my time evenly among my friends, family and relationships,...

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Preventing a water crisis requires international cooperation

By Deniz Gulay -

The history of human civilization is often defined by its use of resources. From the Bronze Age to the Iron Age, and the Oil Age to the Atomic Age, our development as...