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Senior column: Growth and discovery

College is hard. Moving is hard. Making a new place feel like home is hard. But from the second I stepped foot on campus, I felt comfortable. As I walked around campus...


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Senior column: Learning to take the reins

I’ve always been good at following the rules. The codified classroom rules that my teachers outlined every school year, the rules of grammar and spelling that seemed to stick with ease, the...


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Senior column: Feed your own creative spark

Being a creative at Binghamton University can be frustrating. Teachers and departments are most of the time not sufficient, and critique can sometimes be impotent, if not derogative to your original vision...


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Senior column: Finding a constant in the transience of college life

For someone who’s constantly surrounded by words, it’s difficult now to find the right ones, to express what these past four years at Binghamton University have meant to me. Our time as...


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Senior column: Being OK with being unapologetic

The first article I wrote for Pipe Dream prompted an entire response column from the conservative campus publication. When you Google my name, it comes up: “The Left’s Fetishization of Violence: A...


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Senior column: Finally finding stability

After my first semester at college, I had no sense of what I wanted. Despite all the fun and partying that was offered by a big school like the University of Central...


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Senior column: Finding my unlikely home

I started off senior year with a lot of uncertainty. I was back in cloudy Binghamton after a summer of running away from my subconscious realization that I didn’t want to go...


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Senior column: Go into college with a clean slate

Ugh. I can’t believe that I am sitting here writing my senior column moments before it’s due and I’ve had months to think about it. What a classic. Going into college, I...


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Senior column: Proving your doubters wrong

I would like to consider myself a man of principle. When I put forth my best effort, keenly aware I did an exceptional job, and it happens to not be good enough...


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Senior column: Indecision breeds the best memories

Writing for the News section of Pipe Dream for the past four-ish years means that I have no idea how to write an opinion on anything. It feels out of place to...