Existential crises of an extrovert in quarantine
Off the Beat
Moving from a dorm with a friend in every third room back to the childhood bed in my parents’ house was not the most freeing transition, to put it lightly.
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Category Archives: Columns
Capitalistic mindsets during COVID-19
Off the Beat
Capitalism in America has infected us with a “go, go, go” mentality. If we aren’t working hard or aren’t stressed, we feel unproductive and even useless.
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Everyone can write
Off the Beat
We know these stories because they are part of us, because they already live in our mind’s eye. Those characters, those creations, are already alive.
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So you’re thinking about going Greek during a pandemic
Off the Beat
Greek life has reached a point where reform requires restructuring the system to undo all that society believes it stands for: networking and partying.
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Make your own fun
Off the Beat
Activities can make you overcome with glee or strengthen your connection with friends hardly take any time out of your day and may have a lasting impact.
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What’s in a name?
Off the Beat
When it comes to names with kanji, it becomes possible to mix past and present by changing only the reading or the kanji.
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‘WAP’ it like I talk it
Off the Beat
“WAP” is not a salve for the wounds each and every womxn lives with simply for being a womxn, but I do know it gives us a chance to bask in our power.
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2 halves of a whole
Off the Beat
Despite its sometimes arbitrary use, my Chinese name has always felt like a gift: I was the last one in my family named by my great-grandmother.
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On becoming a dog person
Off the Beat
When we fostered a puppy for half of July, we joked that we were “microdosing on parenting,” pretending to know how it feels to raise a child.
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So, what do we do now?
Cal in Color
Ethnic studies should be a requirement, backed by law, for all levels of education, for all kids, who will inherit the unjust systems we leave behind
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