Brandeis University's Community Newspaper — Waltham, Mass.
While fears of the Brandeis academic workload often haunt first-year students long before they ever arrive on campus, it is the “freshman 15” that wakes them up in the middle of the night. As Steven Hoffman ’18 put it, “I am worried about the freshman 15, but only because it is so easy to gain […]
By now, all of you first-years will have settled into your first-year dorms, finished Orientation, had (almost) a full week’s worth of classes and hopefully found a good group of friends. You all have experienced eating at Sherman, and you have spent more time trying to figure out how to get to your 9 a.m. […]
Walk out of your dorm at night, and you’ll quickly realize Brandeis doesn’t seem to be a particularly dangerous place. Every path and building has been carefully illuminated to create both dramatic ambiance and a sense of safety for late-night walkers. Most paths have two or three, sometimes even four, lights carefully trained on the […]
Last year, I was a first-year, and last year, I couldn’t tell you which building was which. It also didn’t help that there are about 10 buildings named Shapiro. Nevertheless, and this is speaking from experience, you will figure it out. Before you know it, the campus will feel small and, ideally, even like home. […]
Everyone remembers that day when they opened up Facebook and saw a notification that their mother had requested to be their friend. While no one really wants to add their mom on Facebook, the obligation exists to at least be polite and not have to deal with the eventual question at dinner as to why […]
Doing laundry at Brandeis isn’t really something I’d call an onerous task. You dump a sack of dirty clothes and some detergent into a machine, wait forty five minutes, repeat the last two steps, then retrieve said clothes. Its nothing too different from what I did back home. Most students seem to have no real […]
Dear Eliana, After picking my classes last semester, I’ve become a little regretful over some of my choices now that I’m looking at my schedule again. First of all, I have class early in the morning most days, and after being able to sleep in ‘til noon for the whole summer, I don’t think I […]
According to an assessment by the 2013 American College Health Association, 51 percent of college students participating experienced overwhelming anxiety, 31.3 percent experienced depression so severe to the point of difficulty in functioning and 7.4 percent seriously considered suicide. This assessment involved surveying 123,078 college students. While not every student encounters stress to this extent, […]
For many students, this is their first week at Brandeis University. First-years have arrived, and this is the first time they are away from home and exposed to new ideas they could potentially agree or disagree with. Many issues are popular and political: abortion, health care, gun rights, the economy and racial tensions. Others are […]
If you consider yourself a typical college student, you probably did what I did this summer: binge watched one or more television shows. And if you saw some of the shows I did, you’d agree that women found empowerment through television this summer. If you had access to a Netflix account and some free time […]
