Senior Columns

Earn a black belt with your degree

By Celia Woodruff -

Not many students know about Binghamton University’s opportunity to earn a black belt alongside their degree. Your first college experience is an exciting time. Students build lasting and fleeting friend groups, receive...

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"Feed the hungry ghost"

By Ian Mills -

You deserve good things. In such a suddenly changing, comparative world, we often forget this. What makes it all worse is when we get trapped, reminded only of our worst moments and...

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Senior Column: It's the simple things

By Krishna Patel -

For the last two years, my friends and I have lived in a grey house on the West Side. It’s got a porch with Edison bulbs overhead and a rose bush out...

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Senior Column: Laughing about life

By Makoto Toyoda -

The senior column was a tradition I had heard about since my freshman year in Pipe Dream and have looked forward to writing for a while now. As I sit here and...

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Senior Column: Good luck and goodbye

By Zachary Hiller -

In my time at Binghamton University and in Pipe Dream, I have not only learned to be a designer who is committed to contributing to work that makes a positive impact, but...

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Senior Column: Everybody wants to be wanted

By Joe Tonetti -

For most of my life, I’ve felt completely alone in the world. I was never truly lonely in the tangible sense, and neither are most people. Every day, I’m surrounded by living,...

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Senior Column: Longing for a legacy

By Kaitlyn Liu -

I don’t think I could have confidently predicted how any aspect of my college career turned out today when I first moved into that Mountainview College suite four years ago. For one...

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Senior Column: You’re not an imposter

By Lakhsmi Chatterjee -

I don’t think I “found myself” in college. And that’s OK. For most of my time at Binghamton University, I’ve struggled with multiple parts of my identity. I came in planning to...

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Senior Column: Just showing up

By Kaitlyn Hart -

I never could have predicted how my college experience would turn out. When I came to Binghamton University, I planned on majoring in political science with a vague idea of where that...

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Senior Column: It gets better

By Sarah Teper -

My friend Rebecca once told me, “You are not peaking in college, and that’s OK.” I wouldn’t say college was the best four years of my life. There were good times —...