Student by day | writer by night
We all have different ways of coping with the stress and anxiety of COVID-19. For me, reading up on the science front of the pandemic has been helpful in taking away a little bit of the largely uncontrollable feeling of uncertainty. Coronaviruses are a family of viruses. The family itself is not new to scientists …
Consisting of both war and peace, internal strife and expansion, violent power shifts and stability, Rome’s history is not a simple one. Numerous military victories and the ultimate triumph of the Romans denote fortune, yet behind these accomplishments were times of suffering and great tragedy. Hence, when Vergil was commissioned by Augustus to write an …
“Just go with the flow.” This is the unwritten rule that many believe is the way to get by in today’s society, a place where people are puppets to peer pressure and are afraid to stand out. However, what good is conformity really? How can accepting what other people establish help us to find out …
Macbeth and Lady Macbeth may be two of the best known characters in all of literature. But why are they so well-known? And how is it that a play that was written over 400 years ago remains so well known and well read today? The writing and the drama, of course, are major factors, but …
According to The Oxford Handbook of English Literature and Theology, redemption is “the human potential to succeed after having failed”. In The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini, Amir watches Hassan, his friend and Hazara servant, get raped; looking out for his own best interest, Amir does not stand up for him, and consequently he is …
A while back, I read a funny biography about an MIT-alum physicist (Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! for anyone who may be wondering. I would highly recommend it to you all). The book helped me realize the real reason why humans are so drawn to science — that is, why scientists do what they do, …