Ed Observers
controversy
Acta, non verba
You bring the University value and add the dollar signs to the piece of paper they sell to thousands of families every year. Without you, this school is worthless.
Community
Rochester is not a dying city
A city cannot be dying if there are so many people who are pumping it with life.
Administration
Confessions from a Workday enjoyer
Workday is my sport and I am winning so goddamn hard.
Resolutions
The best routine is the one you stick to
But even as we run from our past selves, we fall short once we realize the finish line is beyond years away, and our rushed pace is nothing but a one-way ticket to burnout.
pay
Examining student employee pay structures
Any job here requires a certain amount of training, but not all pay structures (devised in response to perceived skill) are created equal.
Admissions
Commuting, the death of me
As a Rochester native, I wanted to get as far away from here as possible. I wanted to leave everything and everyone behind.
friendship
Spill the T(ay)!: To everyone, everything, that’s no longer mine
You left so many pieces of you with me — I’m a mosaic. You gave me pretty stained glass, and when you left it cracked into shards.
family
Dear mom and dad: love is not enough
I need my parents to like me. I think everyone does. For so long, because they did not like me, I did not like myself.
cultural holidays
Why your New Year’s resolutions should be indulgently impossible
It was two days after New Year’s, but I sat down and made The List anyway just because Why Not.
Mental Health
Scars, romance, and the minds of youth
I was a Tumblr tween. And unfortunately, I was one of the many, many children who fell victim to the aestheticization of self-harm.
