Welcome to Ask The Argus, a column brought to you by the Features section! Each week, we bring you the hottest advice from your wonderful, trusty, seasoned editors. Are you having trouble making friends? Is your relationship falling apart? Regretting your choice of major? Struggling with time management? Loud side or quiet side? Don’t fret: […]
An avid fan of the WesCeleb series, Ori Cantwell ’22 reported that he was not surprised by a single question that I asked him. Cantwell is a familiar face to most students due to his work in admissions, but beyond that, he’s also active in the Wesleyan Jewish Community (WJC) and the Quantitative Analysis Center (QAC). […]
The housing selection process is universally stressful, but students placed in program housing through random lottery face extra pressure. Typically, students apply to live in program houses centering on an identity or common interest such as the outdoors (Outhouse), dance (Movement House), or the LGBTQ+ community (Open House). However, some students, dubbed “boarders,” are placed into a […]
Given the onset of the new academic year, students are currently in the midst of settling into their classes and schedules. For Jewish students, however, this transition has proven to be difficult: the High Holiday of Rosh Hashanah, otherwise known as the Jewish New Year, directly overlaps with the first day of classes held on […]
On Aug. 26, a social media post hit every WesAdmits Facebook group, rocking the University’s entire online community. In the post in question, Assistant Dean of Admission Sebastian Ivory wrote to the student body that the administration would shut down the Facebook pages for good. The announcement was met with immediate backlash from both students and the […]
Welcome to Ask The Argus: a column brought to you by the Features section! Each week, we bring you the hottest advice from your wonderful, trusty, seasoned editors. Are you having trouble making friends? Is your relationship falling apart? Regretting your choice of major? Struggling with time management? Don’t fret: we’ve been there, and are […]
Welcome to Ask The Argus: a new column in the Features section! Each week, we bring you the hottest advice from your wonderful, trusty, seasoned editors. Are you having trouble making friends? Is your relationship falling apart? Regretting your choice of major? Struggling with time management? Don’t fret: we’ve been there, and are here to help. […]
Despite expressing personal doubts about their legacy here on campus, Esmé Ng ’22 has surely left a lasting mark on the University community. By working at the intersection of their passions and interests—including Critical Race Theory, theater, and the empowerment of people of color—Ng has found themself as a playwright, using their skills to explore […]
After a summer of rest and relaxation, students returned to campus this past week, eager to get back into the groove of life at school. Following a year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic, the campus has shifted back to an in-person structure, practically mirroring life before the pandemic. First years arrived on campus […]
It’s a well-documented historical fact that pandemics, and the resulting isolation at home, often give way to creative and intellectual masterpieces. Both Shakespeare and Sir Isaac Newton created some of their most impressive accomplishments—King Lear and a theory of gravity, respectively—during bubonic plague outbreaks, and let’s not forget Taylor Swift’s epic 2020 album duo of […]