Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
As a sophomore, it’s easy to love being a Brandeis student. I haven’t yet started stressing about what to do with the rest of my life, but I’ve learned how to work the system. I know the best times to get in line at Usdan, the best classes to take and the fastest way to […]
Being a junior at Brandeis is like having a mid-life crisis. Now, more than halfway through my time at Brandeis, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel—and I’m a little depressed about it. I woke up one day and realized that my time at Brandeis is finite. A little older and […]
I have heard from various elders (a.k.a my mom) that the older you get the faster time goes. I never believed her as much as I have over the last few months. Senior year has been flying by and all of my senior friends agree with me. How is it already mid-November? And more importantly, […]
Too often in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, we listen to speakers, activists, students and professors voice their opinions, yet these talks accomplish little to no progress. Both sides adamantly express their beliefs about Israel and its policies, yet refuse to yield any ground to the opposing and at times, equally passionate and informed side. This week […]
Complex villains, tormented heroes and heroines, conspiracies, betrayals—and let’s not forget that famous scene in which a man gets eaten by a bear—William Shakespeare’s problem play “The Winter’s Tale” seems to have everything. The basic plot is that when King Leontes suspects that his wife Hermione is having an affair with his best friend, the […]
Alumna Melissa Buckheit and Brandeis poet-in-residence Rebecca Seiferle read their poetry as part of the Creative Writing Department’s School of Night series. Their incredibly different styles presented their listeners with an interesting study in contrast. When I got to the room where the event was being held, it was nearly empty. There were a few […]
We all love our bagels and schmear. We love our kugel and ruggelah on holidays. We love the free pizza that clubs give out. Case in point, I think I can safely make the assumption that, as a whole, Brandeis is a carb-loving institution and we would be devastated if we couldn’t eat these foods. […]
Brandeis faculty and staff will show off more than 100 works of art at the exhibition, JustArts, on display in the Dreitzer Gallery of Spingold Theater from Nov. 16 through 22. Works displayed will be by individuals from across campus, including the departments of psychology, theater, fine arts and politics; the mail room; LTS; and […]
The set-up is this: A group of strangers enter a room; it is hell. They wait for something dreadful to happen but nothing does. Trapped for an eternity, with nothing but each other’s company and conversation to occupy them, they discover that they are each other’s hell. The Free Play Theatre Cooperative transforms the Mandel […]
November is known to many writers as National Novel Writing Month, otherwise known as NaNoWriMo. NaNoWriMo is an annual creative writing project coordinated by the non-profit organization The Office of Letters and Light. The challenge of NaNoWriMo is to have 50,000 words of either a novel in process or a completed novel by midnight on […]
