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Is College Really Getting Easier?1
- Culture
- July 25, 2019
Have you ever seen those videos of kids learning they made it into the college of their dreams? A lot of ecstatic jumping and hollering is involved, which brings a smile to even the grumpiest of faces. Nevertheless, I can’t help but feel a twinge of unease for these students. Will they waste four years
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Three Things Studying Foreign Languages Taught Me About English 0
- Culture
- July 25, 2019
“Whoever does not know a foreign language knows nothing of his own.” After studying Latin and German, I understand exactly what this quote from Goethe means. Growing up as a native English speaker, I had little idea of how the language worked. Since I began studying foreign languages, I have learned to appreciate my mother
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China’s Recycling Ban: Surprisingly Helpful for the Environment 0
- Culture
- July 25, 2019
Off the coast of California floats a Texas-sized island made out of garbage. It’s comprised almost entirely of humanity’s plastic waste. Where did this garbage mass in the middle of the Pacific Ocean came from? Plastic dumping. Plastic dumping is the practice of simply throwing away waste into rivers or lakes which eventually lead out into the
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Lyme, Not Lime: How to Help Those Wrestling With the Bizarre Disease 0
- Science
- July 25, 2019
“L-Y-M-E” not “L-I-M-E” an exasperated college friend explained to a group of us in his dorm room. “It’s carried by ticks, and apparently a tick bite I had years ago transmitted it to me.” If you’re like myself or anyone else in the room that day, then you probably would’ve been just as confused as
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Apollo’s Triumph—and Public Schooling’s Tragedy 0
- Education
- July 24, 2019
This past weekend the country celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. It was, for those too young to recall, the first time any nation put humans on an alien world. It was an amazing feat of engineering, ingenuity, and courage. And it happened just eight years and 56 days after President
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Home Equity Theft: How a Man’s Home Was Seized Over $8.41 in Unpaid Taxes 0
- Economics
- July 24, 2019
For three years, the pair scrimped and saved in order to fix up the four-unit property. On the weekends, Ramouldo would spend his days off making the 11-hour drive from New Jersey to Michigan to work on the house, making the much-needed repairs himself. In addition to the small complex, the family had purchased a
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