Category: Viewpoints

This past Saturday, John McCain, a Republican Senator from the state of Arizona, died in office. McCain can now finally rest easy after a long battlewith cancer. I was somewhat surprised by the rhetoric following his death; many of his political rivals spoke very highly of him. From Barack Obama, who was elected over him…

Make time to connect with people on campus. It could be casual hang-outs with friends, club activities or sports events. Don’t isolate yourself and try not to spend too much time alone. There could be a continuum regarding how much time each individual needs or wants to spend on social interactions. However, regardless of whether…

When people first hear that I’m from California, they typically ask me, “Why would you leave California to study in Ohio?” I have heard this ever since I was a first year at Wooster, and I still have yet to develop a standard response. Depending on my mood that day, I may answer with, “Because…

I imagine many in the fresh-faced cohort of ’22 feel a bit uneasy here in Wooster, especially those from large metropolitan areas. Not only are their surroundings unfamiliar, but urban kids probably feel constricted living in a city of less than 30,000. I speak from experience as someone from the D.C. metro area, with its…

All things exist in seasons; each season of your life will always require a different version of yourself. Who you are now is so important presently, with all of its complications of personhood, but it is also preparation for who you will become. We navigate these changes as gracefully and resiliently as we can, but…

Before I came to America, I was a full person — not a brown person, not a woman of color, not an “international student.” I was just one person, perhaps pushed into expectations of stricter gender performance and heteronormativity a lot more, and definitely a beneficiary of class privilege, but I was not “the other”…