Ed Observers
Environment
Save the planet: Repurpose your Halloween costume
I have a proposal: Normalize wearing Halloween costumes year round.
motivation
What is success?
Success is the ability to keep persevering, not letting material gains or losses define you.
anxiety
Conquering anxiety takes practice
Sometimes I’m stronger than my anxiety, other times my anxiety overpowers me. But I keep trying, and I keep improving.
class discussion
How not to have class discussions
There’s a difference between engaging with the material and engaging with your own ego.
american politics
A tale of two cities
Rochester champions people who fought for the less fortunate, and perhaps that makes it more able to accept that things need to change, rather than simply looking the other way.
COVID-19
Laundry room etiquette during COVID-19
It’s already a sin to take someone’s wet clothes out of the washer (and not put them in a dryer), but it’s even worse to do that when we’re in a pandemic.
discourse
I know you can talk, now show me you can listen
You don’t change minds without listening to what they’re saying in the first place.
Mental Health
Make sure your motivation is yours
Once the goals you work toward for other people’s approval or money come to fruition, you might find yourself much less satisfied than you expected.
alcohol
The drinking age has kept speakeasies around
Perhaps the most important source of power for fraternities is alcohol.
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COVID-19
All of Rochester is depending on all of us
There is a special kind of irony in a student receiving the privilege of a higher education transmitting a deadly disease to some of the most vulnerable people in the nation.
