On day one of his second term in office, President Donald Trump signed an executive order rescinding decades-old diversity, equity and inclusion policies, or DEI, which reinforce the 1972 Equal Employment Opportunity Act, or EEO. In line with other executive orders Trump put...

This summer, I will get the chance to reunite with my family in the Philippines after not seeing them for nearly three years.  While I am slightly intimidated by the prospect of being cramped with family members continuously for 30 days, these past few years of blissful independence...

Ah, the long-awaited Feb. 14 — Cupid is coming to town. Either you’re single and dreading Valentine's Day, or you and your significant other have a Contessa reservation locked down and are wondering why everyone is being so darn negative about the whole dating thing. The...

At Northeastern, the spring semester brings snowfall, reunions with friends and, for many, professors who won’t know their name for four months.  Many Northeastern students have sat in a lecture hall with two hundred other students listening to a professor speak extensively...

As a Tennessean, I have seen how state-led attacks on diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs affect those in marginalized communities, making it significantly harder for them to find safe and supportive spaces. A main factor in my decision to move to Boston was that...

The last time I was at the nail salon, I sat in the chair across from one of my favorite nail technicians, talking about winter break and our families. When the topic of college inevitably came up, our conversation turned to graduation, which is quickly approaching for me this...

From the moment I first stepped onto Northeastern University’s Oakland campus in 2023, it was clear something was deeply amiss.  Official information from the university on their Oakland campus was sparse and difficult to access, with no dedicated pages on Northeastern’s...

"What happened to meal exchanges?" If you’ve been on campus this past semester, chances are you’ve asked this question yourself or overheard it in passing. As chair of the Student Government Association, or SGA, Dining Advisory Board, or DAB, I’ve heard it too — along...

As a second-year in college, my dream has always been to take the Law School Admission Test, or LSAT, and go to law school. When I first came to Northeastern, I soon realized that preparing for law school as an undergrad through the university’s curriculum was not as helpful...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order Jan. 21 attacking diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, and related programs across the country, including at “institutions of higher education with endowments over 1 billion dollars” — a category Northeastern falls into...

On Aug. 26, 2024, I watched some unusual travelers make their way through Logan Airport security: a nervous 18-year-old in a Northeastern t-shirt, tightly gripping a plastic bag labeled — in what could only be a mother’s cursive handwriting — “passport.” Then, a few...

College majors tend to have two broad categories: humanities and STEM. Yet, sometimes it seems like the two sides have gone to war, arguing about which field is better, especially in terms of monetary success and the likelihood of landing jobs once out of college.  In today’s...