I have been trying to get myself to Macaulay’s Arts Night for the last two years. Inevitably, something comes up every year: an exam, a paper, etc. This year, I vowed that I would submit a piece and attend the event. On April 26th, I put on a polka dot dress and tights (I always […]
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Hack: A Book Review
Iconic yellow taxis speckle the streets of New York City at any given time. While serving as a convenient form of transportation for most people, taxis offer a unique, urban-based career for others. Taxi drivers like Melissa Plaut, author of the blog-based book Hack: How I Stopped Worrying About What to Do with My Life and […]
Grasshopper Tacos, Please
As we settled ourselves at the table that I had reserved earlier in the day, a waitress promptly came over to ask if we’d like to start with some guacamole. Before my friend, who had come strictly to observe and photograph the experience, had a chance to even flip through the menu once, my previously […]
Oops, Excuse Me. I Didn’t Mean to Spill My Coffee on Your Prada Dress.
In a city of over eight million people, we are blessed to have a subway system that takes us to virtually any corner of the city. Taking the subway is often cheaper and faster than trying to navigate a car on busy city streets or trying to hail a cab during rush hour. It may […]
What Banksy Can Teach Us
When British artist Banksy’s self-declared New York residency first began creating a buzz, I was excited. To me, it presented a comforting realization that masses could still care about art not just in a I’m-going-take-my-biannual-trip-to-the-Met–to-refresh-my-understanding-and-appreciation-for-good-art kind of way (don’t get me wrong, I love the Met), but in a not-all-important-art-is-in-museums-and-I-am-willing-to-travel-all-around-the-city-to-follow-an-obscure-artist-to-see-what-his-work-is-about kind of way. But as the talk around Banksy […]
Pushing Dust Beneath the Carpet
My twentieth birthday was one of the saddest days of my life. I had decided to take a hiatus from school and the stress of coming exams by taking a stroll along New York harbor. Within a few minutes, I had encountered a young woman in her twenties homeless, hungry, and utterly helpless on the […]
Hunter Students Move Back to Brookdale…Sort of
The Hunter College Brookdale Campus was declared re-opened on Wednesday, December 5, after nearly a month and a half of being closed due to damage sustained by Hurricane Sandy. Only the North and West buildings of the Campus reopened, leaving the East building residents, as well as the Physical Therapy and Medical Lab Sciences students, […]
Brookdale Diaspora: The Hunter Campus Community Severed
At around 1pm on Sunday, October 28, public safety at the Hunter College Brookdale Health Sciences Campus announced over the spotty loudspeaker system a mandatory evacuation from the premises due to the oncoming onslaught of Hurricane Sandy. And that was only the beginning. Residents had roughly three hours to pack their things and evacuate the […]
Macaulay at Hunter Senior Research Forum
The Macaulay at Hunter College Senior Research Forum was held on October 17 at the Roosevelt House, and it was a time for the senior class to get together and present their current and past research projects. The evening started out with hors d’oeuvres and brief mingling out on the balcony of the Freedom room […]
World Renowned Psychosexual Therapist Visits Brookdale
Known for her late night sex show Sexually Speaking, frank yet respectful psychosexual therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer visited Hunter College at the Brookdale Campus late Tuesday, October 23 to speak to a large enraptured crowd. Many came to hear her speak and to ask questions — so many that audience members sat clustered on the […]
