Valentine’s Day is usually associated with love and feelings of gratitude toward those we cherish. However, this joyous scene was a stark contrast from the one that unfolded at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. On the afternoon of February 14, echoes of gunshots reverberated across the halls, and the high schoolers found themselves […]
It’s 8 a.m. Today is S.A.T. day. No wait. It’s A.C.T. day. Nope–G.R.E. already? Oh man, that M.C.A.T. just took the wind out of my brain. We have a great system going here. Too many people? That’s no problem at all; the educational system has a way to quantify you. A way to strip away […]
Gabriela Geselowitz (Hunter ’13), a double Theatre and Journalism major, undertook a rare and ambitious senior thesis project. Her production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with a steampunk twist, generated waves amongst Macaulay Hunter students, with sold out shows playing at Macaulay Central on April 15th, 16th, 17th, 21st, and 22nd at Macaulay Central. So […]
Last week, I was writing a research paper. I wanted to quote a speech and the first and fastest way I knew how to find the exact line I was looking for was from a video on YouTube. Sure enough, I found multiple copies of the speech uploaded. I listened to the part I needed, […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Hectic mornings, long train rides, sleepy lectures, mind-boggling math classes, confusing relationships, shady individuals, $10 sandwiches — it’s a wonder that we don’t all run away to St. Tropez. College is the first time we start to take our lives into our own hands and face the increasingly confusing and hectic world around us. So […]
Any college student will tell you that college is extremely stressful. What you won’t hear from all of them is that stress developed as an evolutionary strategy for survival. Therefore, it must be good! And according to clinical psychologist Ben Michaelis, stress is very good. In his article “3 Ways Stress Can Help Beat Anxiety”, […]
