Archives - Alyssa Koh
Ed Observers
It’s okay to only pass your classes
When you’re a procrastinator, you assume that putting in the effort will make things change, but it hasn’t.
Ed Observers
Being stuck in tradition sucks
Take advantage of your position to make your group environment a place where everyone feels that they can be heard.
Ed Observers
Waving the white flag with pride
I’ve been wondering if I’m straight a lot recently. It’s funny — usually, the trope is that people have to consider the reverse.
Dining
Staff shortages limits dining options for students on campus, student demand refunds
With this drastic shift, hours have shortened at certain dining areas, and more niche options have closed entirely.
Biology
UR Team competes to revolutionize hospital work
Team Bio-Sphere is working on developing a wearable biosensor (with an accompanying app) to help predict a risk of sepsis.
COVID-19
It’s time to keep our heads down (and masks on)
Let’s focus on what we can change, and channel our efforts into pushing for improvements that are possible.
stress
An open letter to Workaholics Anonymous
The more you keep going, the less stopping seems to be an option. Thus, I keep going, hypocritically, and I’m sure many of you do, too.
Op-Eds
Be “ever better” than yourself, not others
Being ever better doesn’t mean striving to do everything, all the time, better than everyone else around you.
UR Joking
A list of COVID-19-friendly pop-up requests
Although a healthy amount of UR students can subsist off of the sole resource known as “daddy’s money,” not everyone is that lucky.
Satire
The SA president we needed: An exclusive interview with Megan Browne
Megan, while initially an unlikely candidate as an avid SA-unenthusiast, rose to take on the challenge of snagging the presidency on a whim.