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New presidential administration will likely bring some student loan debt cancellation

19 January, 2021 // News // 0 Comments
As a new presidential administration takes office, Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren hopes to cancel some student loan debt. Canceling that debt would impact about 40 percent of Brandeis students—students who rely on federal loans to… Read More...
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Rhum Barbancourt four year

4 December, 2020 // Opinions // 0 Comments
When I asked my manager Dan about rum, he told me that the Caribbean, and rum by extension, was the Wild West of the liquor world (compare this to France, which is its polar opposite.… Read More...
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Thanksgiving is the best holiday

4 December, 2020 // Opinions // 0 Comments
This year has cemented in my mind the idea that Thanksgiving is the greatest of all the cold-month holidays. Bereft of the burden of extended family antagonism, turkey day becomes just that—a day dedicated wholly… Read More...
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You’re wrong more often than you think, and so am I

4 December, 2020 // Opinions // 0 Comments
As any psychologist, neuroscientist or economist will tell you (the lattermost perhaps accompanied by an expletive or two), people are not entirely rational. In our decision-making, we do not often proceed consciously from evidently true… Read More...
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Sal’s mobile pizza in Waltham needs work

4 December, 2020 // Opinions // 0 Comments
Sal’s pizza has made another appearance in Waltham, this time in the form of a food truck, which offers delivery (but only within a three-mile radius, so not to Brandeis) and pickup. They offer their… Read More...
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Slowing down to appreciate the moment

4 December, 2020 // Opinions // 0 Comments
Life is always teaching us when we least expect it, and my dog, Scout, has been the one teaching me a lot my whole life. From how to always be there for someone to taking… Read More...
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Miley Cyrus’s ‘Plastic Hearts’ is the album she was born to make

4 December, 2020 // Arts // 0 Comments
Miley Cyrus’s new album “Plastic Hearts” captures feelings of complex youthful sorrow and navigating identity through the lens of pleasure and pain in her lyrics. The inaugural track of “Plastic Hearts,” titled “WTF Do I… Read More...
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‘Happiest Season’ is 2020’s movie for the most wonderful time of the year

4 December, 2020 // Arts, Top News // 0 Comments
Let me start off by saying that I am not the biggest fan of holiday movies, mostly because of their formula. (Grinch-y male character hates Christmas before accidentally falling in love with a woman whose… Read More...
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‘Freaky’ is underwhelming but entertaining

4 December, 2020 // Arts // 0 Comments
I have seen very few movies in which I felt the writers truly captured the complexities of teen language and diction. “Freaky,” the newest teen horror released in theaters, truly felt like it was written… Read More...
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Trying to stomach norovirus

4 December, 2020 // Opinions // 0 Comments
Chipotle, although one of my personal favorite Mexican chains (anyone who says Moe’s is better is just flat out wrong), has definitely had its fair share of foodborne illness outbreaks. From E. coli to salmonella,… Read More...
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