Recently, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a deadline for life on the planet should development and industry continue at its current rate. This struck a paralyzing fear in many hearts, despite the clear call to action it was intended to be. Right now, that impulse to shut down must be overridden by intentional decisions to be transformative and active in the service of environment.
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Smythology episode 8: Finals on the mind
It happened. On November 15, 2018, it snowed in Northampton, Massachusetts. To us veterans, the clarion call has been issued. The New England snow season has begun. It will not snow every day. In fact, it may not snow again for a while.
Is this. . . healing? Comic by Michelle Wong ‘19.
It’s cuffing season! See what Sophie Willard Van Sistine ’21 has to say in the seventh episode of Smithology.
There’s a photo of me as a kindergartener dressed in a plaid jumper and tights. In one hand, I’m clutching a sign written in my messy child’s scrawl that says “Augusta,” and in the other hand, a red plush stuffed lobster. The photo is from a class play about the state of Maine. Each student recited a fact about our home state for the assembled audience of our families. In the photo of me from that day, I’m beaming with pride about getting to hold the lobster, one of the most important symbols of our state.
We’re about to enter the twelfth week of the semester, which means that Thanksgiving break is so close we can smell the pumpkin pie. It also means we’ve been in the throes of midterms for a while now, so I thought I’d share my favorite places to disappear to both on and off campus when things get a little overwhelming.
“Are you prepared for the real world?” It’s a question I get asked more often than I want.
The things you are introduced to as a child can set the trajectory for the rest of your life. While I’m not sure that I would introduce a child to video games at age 5, as I had been, nothing has set the trajectory of my life more than video games. My twin brother and I started playing video games at age 5. For two years, we only had one game: “Mario Party 5.” We also only had one video game console for those two years — one video game console, with one game, for two children.
Smythology episode 6: Dirt - the unerasable origins of Otelia Cromwell Day