This fall, millions of Americans packed their bags and kissed their parents goodbye as they left home to pursue a four-year college degree. Upon graduation, these students will join the nearly 40% of Americans who hold a bachelor’s degree. However, only a slim proportion of those — two million to ...
Brown students generate tons of trash — literally. In 2019, the University collected over 540 tons of compost alone, a number likely dwarfed by the mountains of non-compostable waste produced every year. Over the years, Brown has made commendable efforts to reduce and reuse, including the introduction ...
Despite high demand, mental health resources remain in short supply on College Hill. Counseling and Psychological Services, Brown’s main provider of therapy and mental health support for students, is failing to address the needs of a struggling student body.
Fast fashion is wasteful beyond belief. Its models of constant production in many ways represent the very worst of the industry, and slowly but surely, these brands are falling out of favor. I’ve watched it happen in my own closet.
Experiencing girlhood and queerness surrounded by the ubiquity of social media is at once confusing and liberating. At points, the whirlwind of information and videos and posts and strangers that social media presents is overwhelming — like a bunch of voices shouting at you all at once, telling ...
From the immense popularity of 20th century novels “In Cold Blood” and “Helter Skelter” to the record-breaking success of television shows “Dateline” and “Law and Order,” stories of violent crime have long captivated the American psyche. In recent years, however, the rise of true ...
For a small slice of Brown’s campus, the first Monday of each semester is marked with a big red dot on the calendar. Those of us who observe this hallowed day spend it in a nervous thrall, compulsively refreshing our web pages in anticipation of the news that will break hearts and bring tears: ...
I’ve read numerous articles that decry the application of artificial intelligence to areas such as self-driving cars and jury selections. These arguments can typically be traced to an underlying fear: a distrust of machines making decisions for humans. The recent argument ...
Universities spend years going around in circles discussing issues rather than actually implementing simple changes that could have profound impacts on graduate student life. Despite myself and other doctoral students raising concerns ...
As a member of the class of 2024, I share the pervasive feelings of burnout with my peers as we trudge through three consecutive terms. While the University has put Counseling and Psychological Services forth as an available resource for students, frustrations about CAPS still abound.
First-year advisors — the professors, deans and academic administrators who offer advice to students as they navigate their first months in college — are students’ first guides through a daunting Open Curriculum. These advisors have the potential to positively shape a student’s college experience, ...
I am happy that bicycles are more popular now, and am generally in favor of measures to improve bike accessibility. However, the new bike path on South Water Street is an exception.
After the interview, rather than stressing out about it — as I normally would — I chose to reread David Brooks’s essay “The Moral Peril of Meritocracy,” and until sitting down to write this ...
I can’t remember the last time I looked forward to something the way that I looked forward to coming back to campus this semester. Like most Brown students, I spent about two and a half semesters taking classes remotely. For me, at least, Zoom University was awful — for many reasons, but especially ...
The quick adoption of Zoom as a video conference platform by governments, corporations and schools enabled us to study and work from home. While this approach to replacing in-person events and activities prevented productivity from stalling as much as it could have early in the pandemic, it also ...
Education is a field ruled by discourse. Every month there seems to be a new debate about parents, teachers and scholars: whether masks in schools impede childhood development, whether Montessori schools are a revolution or a scam. But there’s one phenomenon that has steadily garnered more and ...
The University’s endowment generated a 51.5% return in Fiscal Year 2021, adding $194 million to the University’s operating budget. This record gain is one of the highest endowment returns reported by Ivy League institutions this quarter, setting Brown’s overall endowment at $6.9 billion.
At first glance, it seems that everyone at Brown is an overachiever. Not much changes after a second glance. No matter their motivation, it seems like everyone here is driven to succeed. That drive (plus a few connections) leads many of us to impressive heights in our internships and work experiences ...
Machine learning is incapable of capturing the value of future artistic innovation as it strictly relies on what already exists. Broadly speaking, art is not commercially successful when it checks off a list of empirical traits, but rather when those traits mix together, like a great recipe, sparking ...
Policing at Brown is omnipresent, what with police cars stationed at every street corner and sirens wailing on Thayer Street every Friday night. The Department of Public Safety’s website even makes it clear: “We are a full-service public safety department,” ...
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