Category: Student Speak

  • November 6, 2020
    My hometown of about 12,000 residents made the front page of the New York Times a couple of Thursdays ago. It wasn’t…

  • October 30, 2020
    In my native village of Kendu Bay, Kenya, funerals are meant to canonize the dead. The first rite of many…

  • October 23, 2020
    Student life is inherently oriented toward the future. We prepare for classes that prepare us for more classes that prepare…

  • October 16, 2020
    My high school’s cafeteria lunches featured a build-your-own sushi bar. Teslas and Range Rovers littered the drop-off line. One time,…

  • October 9, 2020
    More times than I can recall, I’ve started a class eager to learn about some fascinating topic. But as the…

  • October 2, 2020
    I’ve worked at the same restaurant in my hometown since senior year of high school. I haven’t had any sexy…

  • September 25, 2020
    [Note: Each quarter, Brianna Booth, director of positive sexuality, teaches a class at Stanford where students talk about sex, sexuality,…

  • September 18, 2020
    In my sophomore spring, I returned from a gap semester spent taking care of my mental health. I felt refreshed…

  • September 4, 2020
    I wasn’t born in the shadow of 9/11. Nor did I grow under the weight of the Iraq war. But…

  • August 28, 2020
    For most of us, the news that the Committee on Discipline (COD) is investigating dozens of MAT 202 students warrants nothing more…