LU Chronicles
“What are your hobbies?” It is one of the most common and simplest questions people ask out of genuine curiosity about you. It appears harmless, even friendly. The question shows up in first conversations, on dates, in classrooms, during interviews, and sometimes in the middle of casual small talk. Yet […]
Last week, in my ecology class, while handing out an assignment, my professor said something that paused me mid-note: “At least sit with the assignment, even if you’re not able to solve it.” Sit with it? In a classroom increasingly anxious about AI-generated content, about students blatantly outsourcing even casual […]
The tragedy of being human, I think, is that we are rarely satisfied with our own choices, no matter how carefully we make them. When I started college, I had imagined a very different life for myself. Like many others, I was not entirely content with the college I […]