My final semester at Bates has officially begun, and the more I remind myself of that, the more surreal it feels. Just as life at Bates was starting to feel settled and close to normal again, the omicron...

If you were on campus at any point last school year, you know how tough it was to make the best of the pandemic-related public health guidelines. It wasn’t easy to sit through Zoom classes, suffer through...

When I decided to go to Bates, one thing that really drew me in was the complete and utter lack of school spirit. I personally hate school spirit. I love that we don’t care!  A lack of school spirit...

Over the summer, I got an email from the registrar saying a course I had signed up for, the Anthropocene with Professor Raj Saha, had been cancelled. To be honest, I had planned on dropping the course....

Obviously, we owe a lot to modern medicine. Still, sometimes, the way our medical system works makes me want to swallow knives.  A few years ago, I started being plagued by chronic infections affecting...

Taylor Swift is someone who needs no introduction. A household name, she is one of the most successful and well-known artists of our time. My generation has grown up with her, experiencing each and every...

Everyone knows that most social media sites track your activity and use your data to target content toward you. In some ways this can be helpful, like when Youtube recommends videos they know you’ll...

Yes, you read the title correctly. My mentor is currently sitting in jail, awaiting her trial date. She’s accused of being a co-conspirator on espionage related charges. Allegedly, she and her husband...

A few weeks ago, someone sent me a clip of Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld poking fun at the proposals made to amend education regarding race, white supremacy and colonialism here at Bates. Conservative media...

I wish I could tell you that I am a healthy person. When I began to have disordered eating tendencies, I decided to reach out to CAPS and Health Services to get help. I had begun to feel confident and...