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The Great QR Code Hunt – HWL 1

Brandeis Core Requirements are a system designed to ensure every graduating student has the skills needed to enter the professional world. Part of those requirements, to the chagrin of some, are health classes—which may potentially be grueling, yet highly necessary. According to Brandeis’ Core Requirements, all students must take three Health, Wellness, and Living (HWL) courses during their undergraduate years—barring some sort of special academic exemption. However, Navigating Health & Safety, or HWL 1, must be taken in a student’s first semester at the university. Among the dozens of sections, all students must participate in a scavenger hunt organized by the Office of Health and Wellness Promotion (HAWP) to begin Unit 1 of the course.  After downloading the Actionbound app and scanning the HWL syllabus’ QR code to onboard, students

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More than a library

More than a library Everybody knows that the library has way more than archival books. It’s a great study spot. It has great coffee. It’s got okay printers. But there is so much more than just the tables in Farber.

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Simon Malls … Who is Simon?

This article has been a personal interest of mine for a while now. I grew up constantly going to malls. When I was a kid in Los Angeles, malls were equivalent to meeting at the playground; you went with your

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An Open Letter to the Brandeis Mathematics Department

Note: the following statement is made all in good fun and is not meant to critique the functioning of the Mathematics Department (or any other department at Brandeis) in anything more than a surface-level way. Professors and staff work incredibly hard to do the work that they do, and we

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Everything I Learned As A Freshmen

Being a freshman certainly happened. I was blessed to avoid the culture shock that some experience when coming to college, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t face my share of hurdles. These hurdles helped me to learn some harsh truths about adult life that no class can cover, so I’d

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What Really Is Plan B, and How Do I Use It?

Plan B is a type of emergency contraception, not your regular birth control. It’s meant for situations like unprotected sex, a condom breaking, or missing multiple birth control pills. The good news is there’s no strict limit to how many times you can take Plan B in a month, and

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FAB: The Newest Activist Group on Campus

Some students might have noticed a set of protests at the beginning of the semester. These protests were not organized by any of the usual groups associated with activism on campus; instead, they were held by a new group, Fight Authoritarianism Brandeis (FAB).  FAB was originally started by Professor Sabine

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ChatGPT Might be Making Your Vibrator More Expensive

Nothing has captured the stock market quite like the advent of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). It is being integrated into almost every website the average internet user visits. Predictions put the percentage of internet content that was A.I. generated at 50% or more. 32% of the S&P 500 and 41% of

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