The value of cooking classes
For three hours each Friday last spring, it was me and 15 other students at Arrillaga working our way around the Teaching Kitchen in our chef hats and closed-toed shoes,...
Thanksgiving on campus
There is one consolation this time of the quarter, with exams and essays and presentations and group projects piling up — it is almost Thanksgiving break. We are two weeks...
Talking Stanford to family back home
Let’s say it is your first year at Stanford. You are adjusting to the rhythm of life here — the sunny bike rides from class to class, the varying dining...
Stanford must lower the cost of textbooks
Three-hundred eighty-seven dollars. This is the number at the bottom of a two-week-old receipt of mine from the Stanford Bookstore. It is what I spent on textbooks this quarter. This...
What should you do with your life?
For many of us right now, as we start preparing for summer, but especially for the class of 2018, with graduation and “real life” approaching fast, we might find ourselves...
Burning out: how to re-light the flame
With duck syndrome and imposter syndrome and all the other various syndromes we are bound to get at some point in time here, especially if we are stretched a little...
Let the caterpillars live
Amanda Rizkalla discusses why, despite their annoyance, the almost omnipresent caterpillars should be accepted.
Facebook: Are the privacy concerns worth deleting the app?
Amanda Rizkalla argues that Facebook's expansion and indispensability in our lives is part of what makes it so challenging to decide where to limit it.
