Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
Throughout all of high school, each and every activity—whether academic, athletic or extracurricular—was done with the future in mind. Upon volunteering or signing up for anything I would always ask myself: “Will this help me get into college?” Everything I’d do was explicitly done in an attempt to make me more appealing to college admission […]
This past summer, all I could think about was college—how incredible it was going to be, how much fun I was going to have and the amazing friends I would make. I spent my free time worrying about my classes and dreading my finals, dreaming of people I did not know and places I had […]
As a midyear you have a couple options: Go abroad; stay home and try not to strangle your sibling; do an internship somewhere; or go to community college. For me it was a no-brainer. All my friends fled from my hometown like it was the plague and so I found myself doing the same. Except […]
Hello, my name is Morgan Gross and I can’t dance. Now, before you start with the “everyone can dance,” “you just need to try it,” “don’t be so hard on yourself” stuff, let me assure you, this isn’t some exercise in self-deprecation or fishing for compliments. I’m not secretly a ballerina, who is just trying […]
What a person wants to do with their own body is their business. Therefore, while I may not entirely understand gender reassignment surgeries, I can respect the transgendered people undergoing them and wish them well. Tommy, a resident of California, is currently taking the first steps to become Tammy. Good for him! He is a […]
The “Shalit Deal” with Hamas is not something the average Brandeis student has managed to avoid. According to the deal, Gilad Shalit was released in exchange for 1,027 Palestinian prisoners from the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Israel, some of whom returned to their homes while some were deported. The popular media in Israel continuously […]
The Israeli government recently released approximately 1,000 Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the return of Staff Sergeant Gilad Shalit, who had been held hostage by Hamas for the last five years. I am not sure, however, if this was the wisest course of action to take on the part of the Israelis. I clearly understand […]
Whoever decided that 24 hours was enough for a day was terribly unmotivated or had a particularly cruel sense of humor. (Interestingly, the term nychthemeron is the term for the consecutive 24 hours marked on the calendar as a day, while a “day” is the transitive period of sunlight.) This is why coffee is such […]
Most people play sports because they are competitive or athletic or “into” sports. Not me. In 10th grade I tried out for my high school’s girls’ volleyball team to make friends. Playing sports was a way of life in my high school. In most high schools it is the elite few who achieve the status […]
“Hook up”: Informal. To have casual sex or a romantic date without a long-term commitment, according to Dictionary.com. As residents of a college campus, the words “hook up” pass our lips on an almost daily basis. Yet—for something about which we talk so much—their exact meaning, when used in the correct combination and context, are […]
