It’s hard to think of a time when technology wasn’t glued to our hands and a magnet for our eyes. I remember being a little kid, playing Brick Breaker on my mom’s Blackberry, waiting for cheerleading practice to start because I’d already finished my homework or forgotten...
If I shell out money for a movie ticket, I have a few expectations of the lead actor: Be more entertaining than my popcorn, and produce real tears during crying scenes. What I don’t rely on, however, is the actor being a good spokesperson for their movie’s delicate subject...
“They like me, they like me not.” Swipe right, swipe left. The modern equivalent of picking petals off a flower — dating apps like Tinder, Hinge and Bumble rely on algorithms and a little bit of chance to try to connect their users and bring about blossoming relationships.
Users...
In a biological context, a metamorphosis refers to a dramatic change in a body form from an infantile stage to an organism’s adult stage. One may conjure an image of tadpoles growing into frogs, or eggs transforming into butterflies.
In a more practical context, however,...
My first and, so far, only co-op experience can be defined as transformative, enriching, magnificent and by a further predictable collection of overused superlatives. Insofar as Northeastern has sold its co-op program as a way to learn through experience, the catchphrase is not...
Four years ago today, I walked down the airport terminal and eyed the foreign writing sprawled across the advertisements — the curlicues of each letter like vines that were reminiscent of the elvish language from another world. Anticipation fizzled in my stomach at the thought...
After President Joe Biden dropped out of the 2024 presidential election in July, his endorsement of Vice President Kamala Harris garnered widespread attention. Videos of Harris dancing, laughing and delivering her iconic line, "You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?"...
When driving down Fort Bonifacio, the car air conditioning does little amid the sweltering heat — a typical Filipino summer with steam columns rising up from the asphalt and the ever-present ruckus of fruit vendors in their vibrant stalls lining the streets.
With my dad...
Scientists estimate that 75% to 80% of the world’s population regularly consumes some form of caffeine, and nearly 3 in 4 Americans drink coffee every day.
Despite the staggering prevalence of caffeine consumption, caffeine is not actually mentioned on the Drug Enforcement...
Growing up, just about every coming-of-age movie and school assembly skit featured the same key message: Labels don’t define a person. Although we’ve progressed past the point of outwardly using terms like “band geek,” today’s society is obsessed with labels more than...
Zoom open, camera on, microphone muted, snack in hand, brain off. We went through this mental checklist every highschool weekday of 2020-21 as our school lives were forcibly uprooted and placed into the uncharted territory of remote learning. I believe that I speak for most people...
Is it dramatic to declare a university in danger of bleak soullessness because it replaced the whimsical book stair design with a picture of the Husky mascot? Perhaps. However, the change is emblematic of a declining sense of community and Northeastern’s concerning shift toward...
