Publications 

Despite upcoming finals, many students at UCU were willing to take the time out of their day to speak with me about the importance of DH to them. Many reiterated the points Bence makes in “Let’s Talk Dining Hall,” but this is an overview of some of the other topics and questions that came up.  Many students were unsure whether there were any logical alternatives. (This included UCU’s budget, but, to clarify, the sale would help cut UU costs and does not directly impact UCU’s

One of the defining features of a Liberal Arts and Sciences (LAS) education in the Netherlands is the promise of small classes. At our university college, no class is larger than 28 students, and many advanced courses, especially at levels 2 and 3, are much smaller. Some have six students, others four, and sometimes even three, and the reason lies in the distinction between following a track fully or treating its constituent courses as electives. In theory, these settings hav

Abroad in Utrecht *This is a work of fiction. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events, is purely coincidental. I had been dreaming of studying abroad since high school — an idea instilled in the American mind as the idealized experience one hopes will change their life forever. Given this pressure, choosing where to live for five months was one of the hardest decisions of my life.  So, naturally, I asked ChatGPT. Yes, SuperStickySurfaces, you were r

I remember learning of the Roman Republic for the first time as a child and being utterly captivated by the knowledge, wholly novel to me at age five, that there had been entire civilizations that began and ended long before I stumbled into the world. In some ways, it was the mystique, the strange unknowableness that millennia bring, but that was not unique to Rome; I’d already become plenty obsessed with dinosaurs, and they have a lot more than mere millennia in that departm

There is something that has long felt unfair to me about the way things are ; it is the fact that the more comfortable you are with yourself, the easier it will be for you to connect to people. In some ways, for those of us who are on the shyer side, it almost feels like the universe is punishing you, like it’s all some divine humiliation: what you crave the most is being understood, but the very thing that you need to do to get that connection is to go against what you have

Little bee, good friend, hello! Do not mind me taking a seat in the grass as you climb through sprouts of lavender with your friends. I do hope I am not interrupting. I have someone I’m meeting here soon, but the weather is nice and you are here, so it is a good day to be waiting. It is pleasant to have found your company again. Indeed, indeed, I should let you get back to that, but I'm really sorry, I can't help myself. I just have to talk to you right now. There are so many

Why hasn't modern technology realised Willy Wonka food science yet? Timothée Chalamet in the Wonka movie proves you can’t get away with everything just because you’re super hot. This, in my circle, was the initial point of discourse surrounding the new Wonka movie. I feel particularly passionate about this topic as a long-time Charlie and the Chocolate Factory fan. To me, besides the more superficial Chalamet discus- sion, the movie also lacked a certain whimsy surrounding ca