DeisHacks: From an organizational perspective
Fred Rogers, better known as “Mister Rogers,” declared “Life is for service” in his book “Life’s Journey According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way.” While the final episode of “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” aired long before I was born, I remember my parents sitting me and my siblings in front of the television […]
Changing educational values
Brandeis University, as we, the students, all know, prides itself on its strong academics. It rightly should, as it is ranked #44 by U.S. News and World Report for American universities (that said, the methodology used is now in question, and the actual value of such statistics at all is another debate entirely). Regardless, […]
Brandeis University has set itself a challenge and it must rise to the occasion
Welcome back to Brandeis, and if you’re a first-year, welcome to Brandeis. As those of us who are returning are all aware, there are a lot of first-years this year. In fact, it is the largest class—ever—in the history of the university. I’ve been working with them as an Orientation Leader, and I can tell […]
Brandeis moves from Sodexo to Harvest Table
On April 14, Brandeis announced that we will be transitioning to a new dining vendor. The university will be switching from Sodexo to Harvest Table (A subsidiary of Aramark). As members of the Brandeis community who have been eating Sodexo’s “food” for a year now, we wanted to weigh in on the decision. Vincent’s […]
Adirondack Chair Conversations With the Statue of Louis Brandeis, part 1—a short story
“Look around.” I don’t understand. “Explore your surroundings.” But I live in them. “You do not live in them. You have become them; a sapling who thinks itself an acorn. Your home is vacant.” And it was gone. And that was the first conversation I had with them. I […]
Why NexDine is our best option
There are few things that Brandeis students love more than a good old fashioned peer-to-peer competition. Our recent Jeopardy run, for one. The existence of our debate team, ironically named BADASS, for another. Our latest, most popular peer-to-peer competition? The dining presentations. It is not often that we have the chance to influence the outcome […]
Brandeis Fencing remembers Parry, Riposte!
Brandeis, as we all know, has many longstanding and proud traditions. Believe it or not, sports are one of them. Now, we had the good sense to sack the football program long ago. No, I’m talking about a pillar of the student body of Brandeis: Fencing. There is perhaps no more Brandeisian sport than fencing […]
Think different: MacBooks suck
Breaking news: most students are using MacBooks. A huge majority of college students, nearly three quarters of them, use or would prefer to use a Macbook, according to TechSpot. At the risk of sounding like massive contrarians, MacBooks suck. For a device that claims to do it all, the functionality of Macs is severely lacking […]
Why Brandeis was the 6th happiest university in 2012
In 2012, Brandeis University was ranked number six by Unigo for the happiest universities in the United States for the 2012-2013 year. Don’t believe me? I don’t either. Yet, it’s on the university Wikipedia page, and more importantly, a skilled user of the wayback machine can find it on Unigo itself. Naturally, I am not […]
