Editorial
The gift of being a beginner
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As someone who works with clay, I can confidently say that learning how to wheel-throw was a humbling experience. I was sitting in a classroom surrounded by other nervous students, all sitting at the...
Horror is the most honest genre
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Stories — films especially — are hyperbolic extensions of the things we experience in everyday life. They enlarge the feelings we experience like love, fear, shame, desire and the incessant ring of mortality. Horror...
Find your creative flow
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As someone who enjoys painting, drawing and photography, I would describe myself as a creative person. I, however, would not describe myself as an artist or a photographer. Growing up, I took many art...
The merits of a beater car
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Earlier this summer, I took my 2008 Honda Fit to a shop for a quote on replacing my exhaust system. It would cost $1,000, the mechanic told me, but I would get back the...
Why fitness matters
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In today’s fast-moving world where technology does almost everything for us, it’s easy to overlook the importance of fitness. From dawn until dusk, people sit at their computer desks, scroll on their phones and...
A quest for belonging
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One of my fellow international classmates said to me at the very beginning of our first term, “I
don’t think I belong here.” This is not an uncommon feeling among international students. I
believe most people,...
Warlocks, witches and spells
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Ever since I was little, I have always had an idea of what witchcraft is. I was raised with the
belief that perhaps witchcraft is real. Growing up in a family with strong connections and
ancestry...







