The Toxicity of “The Body Positivity Movement”

Leilani Glace | November 12, 2021

While scrolling through social media this past summer, I saw a lot of content surrounding the body positivity movement. Influencers were pushing their viewers to love their bodies, embrace fluctuations in body shape and weight,

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What I learned after three years at Princeton

Sally Jane Ruybalid | November 5, 2021

I’m almost certain that the Classes of 2024 and 2025 are tired of orientation activities, meetings, and how-tos. Despite the good intention of these events and recommendations, they seem to stretch ad nauseam into late

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How I used honesty and action to overcome my anxiety

Asaad Manzar | October 29, 2021

I vividly remember my first-year panic episode. It occurred the night before I had to deliver a major speech for my communications seminar. I woke up at 4:30 in the morning, drenched in sweat, shivering,

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Smartphone addiction, ambition and our fear of silence

Nadav Ziv | October 22, 2021

Perhaps, like me, you instinctively reach for your phone. Standing in line to buy cupcakes this summer, I scrolled on my phone. Waiting for my dentist appointment several weeks later, I scrolled on my phone.

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The Myth of Passion

Noah Do | October 16, 2021

These days, it seems like the resume obsession is real. Everyone is scrambling for jobs, internships, shadowing, clubs, research positions and whatever else the pre-corporate world has to offer. It seems like any use of

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Washing Dust From the Soul

Steve Nelson | October 8, 2021

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.” – Pablo Picasso We are in the midst of a prolonged dust storm in America.  Daily life brings reports of yet

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Empathy, Balance, & Dilution

Jaeho Lee and Darla Moody | October 1, 2021

(Editor’s note: Although this article focuses on a specific school, its implications have universal application.) Empathy. Balance. Inclusion. [EBI] These three values are essential to the pursuits of Andover, drilled into its students and even

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Faculty and Student Wellness: Embracing the Interdependence

Brent Kaneft | September 24, 2021

Earlier this summer, during an online discussion about grading practices, a teacher made a familiar, yet rarely challenged assertion: “When a student gets a D/F—or even an A—in my class, that’s the grade they earned.”

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Individualism is a privilege too

Bella Chang | September 17, 2021

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve always been shy in social interactions, not wanting to make the first move or reach out to others. Though I was scared of talking to others, I always

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