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The inspiration for the title of this article is credited to my friend and Editor-in-Chief of The Brandeis Hoot, Cooper Gottfried ’25.    A week before I had left campus for summer break, I booked...

Shortly before this term began, I had a conversation with my older brother, who had just finished his five-year B.S./M.S. degree. He asked how I felt about entering my third year of undergrad, and I...

I have found the annual exercise of leaving for summer holiday to be acutely challenging. My experience with the most-recent Great Departure, if I may call it as such, only reinforced this feeling in my...

In a recent conversation with a beloved professor of mine, I asked “Why are you answering emails at 11 p.m.? What are you, an undergraduate?” Now mostly I was being cheeky at the fact that...

This essay was written in a spurt of creativity the night of January 13, 2023. That night, I was flying from Albuquerque, New Mexico back to Boston for the start of the Spring 2023 term....

This article is part of an ongoing collaborative column by Gonny Nir and Jamie Trope. In this column, the authors explore questions big & small, worthwhile & worthless, obvious & absurd, all for the humble...

This term has uncovered something quite curious to me: the placement of the desk in a professor’s office completely changes the ambience of office hours. Allow me to explain.  I have two professors this term...

For most of last term I wrestled with a question: who am I? I think that most people, particularly within the college-age bracket, will have asked themselves this kind of question at least once. Afterall,...

There’s a well-known problem in political economy: the tragedy of the commons. The problem proposes that where there is a sought after, but limited resource and an unregulated group of agents, the agents, hypothetically acting...