50 years ago, I rode my Kawasaki from Portola Valley onto campus, usually squeaking into class just on time. While much has changed since then, one thing has remained constant: our humanness. We still search for meaning and need connection. We still have dreams and we still screw up. In the last 50 years, as I’ve changed careers and … [Read more…]
Don’t publish that, Gheed! It’s too direct. Too specific. This bothers me. I write about romance, life and home because they mean so much to me that I want to offer them a place to live on forever. I don’t write to feed people’s egos, or to send signals. I don’t write to spill my … [Read more…]
I’ve almost gotten used to all the construction happening throughout campus. But as I bike past several makeshift walls and orange signs, I can’t help but feel a familiar sense of mild frustration as I’m forced to make a detour. I approach the narrow passageway behind the Stanford Bookstore and dodge several oncoming bikes that … [Read more…]
On one of my first days at Stanford, as more than 1,500 of us gathered in Memorial Auditorium to discuss our assigned Three Books, I remember raising a shaky hand. “How can we, as transient students, meaningfully contribute to the local community and repair the disruptive impacts of our presence?” How can we live here? … [Read more…]
Like most prospective freshmen, after getting into Stanford I found myself wading through Reddit to find out everything I needed to know about student life. What I quickly found were stories of burnout, of being left out and of feeling like social life was nonexistent at Stanford. I told myself that my Stanford experience would … [Read more…]
It is easy to know how you’re supposed to feel when you start college, but harder when it ends. The beginning of college is designed to make you feel lucky. Your RAs memorize your name. They tell you “Welcome home,” even though you’ve never seen it before. Even if you don’t feel excited, you know … [Read more…]
“Between the Black and the White” explores different moods and feelings in daily life. It is organized into different keys that set the tone for each specific piece. It tries to capture the microscopic stories of life and zoom in to examine every detail. It is late afternoon. We are sitting on a rainbow-striped picnic blanket … [Read more…]
Yonatan Laderman’s column “An Invitation to Reconsider” examines the different elements of a theater production in order to rethink life and theater with unorthodoxy. a stage has all stages in it when we fell from the skies into the wombs, no one mentioned how hard the ground was. when I step in it’s all dark, one lamp remained on. abandoned. … [Read more…]
Yonatan Laderman’s column “An Invitation to Reconsider” examines the different elements of a theater production in order to rethink life and theater with unorthodoxy. Theater is ephemeral. How do we even know that we’ve seen a show? We can say we remember the show, as a collective. We share the memory of the event and … [Read more…]
One thing I love about New Yorkers is their sense of style. Every day, I find myself with new items to add to my wishlist. In fact, I love mixing and matching items. But I never expected Mugler and H&M to mix and match. On my way out of class, I saw a girl carrying … [Read more…]