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GORAL: Make the Mundane Wonderful

GORAL: Make the Mundane Wonderful

By Dylan Goral October 18, 2024

At the beginning of the fall season, when the air becomes crisp and the leaves start to lose their greenish hue, I indulge in my favorite annual tradition: a viewing of Wes Anderson’s “Fantastic Mr....

PHAN: Search for Your Jazz Club Moment

PHAN: Search for Your Jazz Club Moment

By Nhan Phan October 4, 2024

Despite its dreadful midtown traffic and sweat-scented subway cars, I love New York City for its gritty, adrenaline-inducing character. When I recently traveled there for the weekend, I was hoping to reconnect...

GORAL: Reignite the Search for Your Own Wonderland

GORAL: Reignite the Search for Your Own Wonderland

By Dylan Goral October 4, 2024

For my birthday last weekend, I received something unusual from one of my closest childhood friends: a picture of us, dated February 2011, posing onstage with a man in a large hat, a woman wearing a giant...

RAO: Improve GUSA Communication

RAO: Improve GUSA Communication

By Saahil Rao October 4, 2024

It is today, with a heavy heart, that I proclaim the death of the Georgetown University Student Association (GUSA) biweekly newsletter, which has tragically not been biweekly, or really even existent,...

SPILLING THE CHAI | Monkey Masti: The Impossibility (and Importance) of Dev Patel’s ‘Monkey Man’

By Anandita Agarwal, Columnist October 2, 2024

From low budgets to shattered iPhone screens to a ban on its target audience, “Monkey Man” is stronger for its jugaad (scrappy resourcefulness) and amateur newness.  As Harry Styles would say,...

In her first column of the semester, Minoli Ediriweera (CAS ‘25) compares the climate policies of the leading presidential candidates, Vice President Kamala Harris and Former President Donald Trump.

SCIENCE ON THE BALLOT: Harris and Trump’s Climate Agendas

By Minoli Ediriweera, Science Columnist September 27, 2024

Climate policy is on the minds of many U.S. voters in the upcoming presidential election, with scientists predicting that the destruction caused by climate change will be irreversible as soon as 2030....

BAGARIA: Protest for Responsible Protests

BAGARIA: Protest for Responsible Protests

By Aashi Bagaria September 26, 2024

Each day, as I walk through Red Square, I am confronted with posters advertising yet another protest I have heard nothing about. The walls, already thickly saturated with posters advertising clubs or events,...

PETERS: Honor Untold Stories Through Theater

PETERS: Honor Untold Stories Through Theater

By Mansi Peters September 26, 2024

In high school, theater was the outlet where I found the most joy, relishing in the ways that it was built to amuse audiences and offer an escape from reality. At the time, I didn’t realize that considering...

PHAN: Punch Through Your Personal Walls

PHAN: Punch Through Your Personal Walls

By Nhan Phan September 18, 2024

This summer, I began boxing. Being a non-confrontational person, I was originally hesitant about trying out a combat sport. I had always been more comfortable in situations where the objective was to work...

GORAL: Don’t Stop Reaching at the Front Gates

GORAL: Don’t Stop Reaching at the Front Gates

By Dylan Goral September 18, 2024

While packing for my first year at Georgetown University a few short weeks ago — a carefully curated process of tearing my bedroom apart to see just how much I could fit into two suitcases and a backpack...

RAO: Give H*yas for Choice the Right to Reserve Rooms

RAO: Give H*yas for Choice the Right to Reserve Rooms

By Saahil Rao September 18, 2024

Vats of ink have been spilled in contemplation of Georgetown University’s extended divorce with H*yas for Choice. It is an issue that, while frequently covered, still deserves our attention. In fact,...

CHIN: Explore GU Beyond Resume-Fillers

CHIN: Explore GU Beyond Resume-Fillers

By Lauren Chin April 25, 2024

In high school, every action I took weighed on me. Each small step seemed to have significant repercussions: picking the wrong classes, scoring too low on my tests, making a bad impression on teachers....

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