On Monday, Sept. 11, 2023, I was diagnosed with a chronic ACL tear in my right knee. As I stared at the mangled mess of muscles that used to be my knee on the screen displaying my MRI results, I wondered how I was able to move at all. To put an end to four […]
I spent my Thanksgiving break buried in my two favorite shows: “The Crown” and “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” (KUWTK). As I ventured farther and farther into the monotonous episodes, I also spent the break pondering everyone’s most fundamental question about both of these shows: Why does anyone care so much about these disgustingly wealthy, […]
In an annual tradition of publicized music taste, millions of users took to Instagram and X (formerly known as Twitter) this week to bombard our feed with their Spotify Wrapped summaries, where the streaming giant gives users a brief overview of their data from the year. These screenshots featured the usual information that Spotify gives—top artists, genres, […]
The Opinion Section created the column “Argus Apps” to humanize the college application process. Common App essays normally only exist within the framework of college admissions, alongside a list of accomplishments, extracurriculars, and test scores. With “Argus Apps,” we’re revisiting old Common App essays written by Wesleyan students to think about where we’ve been and where we’re going. In this edition, we […]
Since starting the Opinion column “Argus Apps,” which is a column that publishes Wesleyan students’ Common App essays and reflections as a way to humanize the college admission process, I’ve given a lot of thought to the factors and implications involved in the college admission process. One of the major aspects to this process […]
Scroll through a list of rom-coms and you’ll find that most of them center around the classic friends-to-lovers trope. As someone who has had a long-term relationship with someone that I was friends with for years before dating, I understand this fascination with romantic love developing out of friendship. All the time I hear about […]
Over the course of my time at Wesleyan, it has often felt like everyone around me is involved on campus in a million ways and also has a ton of majors. In order to verify if this feeling was true, I took a look at the major reports supplied by Wesleyan. What I found was […]
Psychology, English, government, and computer science: These are some of Wesleyan’s most popular majors. While Wesleyan prides itself on its interdisciplinary approach to learning, this mission is hindered by the fact that the University doesn’t offer minors for many of its most popular departments. Though many people argue that minors aren’t that beneficial in the […]
As I begin my third rewrite of this piece, pushing it back yet another production deadline, I have finally realized that I must go about this piece as personally and explicitly as possible. I have tried words of passivity and words of questioning and words of anger, like many of us regarding the Israel-Palestine conflict, […]
Recently, a letter to the editor was published about the “misandry problem” at Wesleyan. While the letter rightfully points out the damaging effects the patriarchy has on men, as it does on people of all genders, it ignores the bigger picture of why and how we should combat toxic masculinity. It equates misandry to other […]