I immigrated to the United States from Japan when I was 5 years old and moved to New Jersey with my parents and my twin brother. At that age, the U.S held the same appeal to me as the New World held for prospective immigrants of long ago: it was a place of adventure...
Anjana Saravanan
UC Berkeley 2023.
The Dakota Access pipeline: What we know so far
Pipelines are not rare occurrences in this country, but perhaps the most famous one in today's world is the Dakota Access pipeline. Having read about numerous protests concerning this project, I decided to pursue a deeper understanding of the pipeline itself and the...
Movie review: ‘Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them’
J.K Rowling’s "Harry Potter" series was my introduction to fiction, so, naturally, anything associated with Rowling’s magical world carries with it a sense of nostalgia. Of course, when I heard Rowling was making her screenwriting debut with “Fantastic Beasts and...
President-elect Donald J. Trump– who imagined it?
America has played spectator to the biggest election upset in recent years. “President-Elect Donald Trump.” These are words many in this nation never thought would fall heavy from the lips of newscasters across the word. The brutish, bad-mouthed businessman now fills...
Opinion: The importance of passion in this generation
In an age where my peers make life decisions on the basis of pressure from parents and friends, passion is all but nonexistent. “Love” towards an activity or pastime means nothing. What’s more important these days is how said activity “looks on college applications”....