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The snow is melting, the fields are cleared and the weather is warming up. All three of these factors point to one conclusion: You should go attend a Hopkins sports game! If you need any more convincing, here are the rundowns of how some of our teams did in the past week. Embrace the hype and go support.
Leonid Kotov is a junior majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Economics and is an essential member of the Hopkins Men’s Fencing team. His weapon of choice is sabre. In his junior year of high school, Kotov earned a gold medal in the 2022 USA Summer Nationals. Upon his arrival to the collegiate fencing scene, Kotov was awarded the 2023-24 US Fencing Coaches Association National DIII Sabre Newcomer of the Year. He followed this with being named to the USFCA Mid-Atlantic/South All-Region in 2025.
The semester may just be kicking into gear, but the spring sports are just starting to bloom and the winter sports are putting up some chilling wins. It’s the best of both worlds: thrilling lacrosse matches with a snowy and gorgeous Homewood campus as a backdrop, or an indoor gym where you can cheer in comfort.
Despite an incredibly cold and snowy beginning to the Spring semester, Hopkins sports got off to a characteristically hot start, registering several key wins!
Stone Meng, a senior majoring in Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Hopkins, was the 112th student body president and is the co-founder of Higher Grounds Vending. In an interview with The News-Letter, Meng discussed his experiences during his undergraduate years, ranging from his time in the Student Government Association (SGA) to his research in the field of dentistry.
Yes, I know it’s almost Thanksgiving and the main thing on your mind is when can you go home. When are you able to sit on the couch all day, maybe catch some NFL or NBA games, and drift into daydreams about never going back to school. As tempting as this sounds, you’ll be more thrilled to know about the success of our Hopkins sports team. Embrace your team spirit and combine it with your love for the school and you will realize that these Hopkins Sports games are can’t miss thrillers.
We are truly into the pointy end of the fall season. This is where titles are won, and most importantly, where the Blue Jays establish themselves as one of the most dominant forces in all of DIII sports! So lets take a look back at some of the biggest headlines from Hopkins sports this past week.
It’s an exciting time in the world of Hopkins sports. The fall season is climbing to an exciting culmination and the winter season is slowly heating up. Now is an amazing time for everyone to go and catch a game, either outside if you can brave the chill or inside at the gym or pool. As the winter athletes show off how hard they have been training for the season and the fall athletes demonstrate the elevated levels of play they developed over the past few months, go support and cheer on the Jays.
With the halfway mark of the season behind us, the Blue Jays are well and truly in the final leg of the season, heading towards conference championships and playoffs! In what is almost regular fashion at this point, the teams at Hopkins put together another stellar week of performances, so let’s take a look back at some of the best from the week...
Ikshu Pandey is a postbaccalaureate research assistant at the Rowland Institute at Harvard and a Fulbright recipient committed to studying the nexus of neuroscience and materials science for medical innovation. She is also dedicated to fostering equity in STEM and healthcare through her global advocacy work. In an interview with The News-Letter, Pandey reflected on her passion for interdisciplinary research and the effect of Fulbright experience, which have solidified her desire to create collaborative, globally informed solutions in neurodegenerative disease and healthcare engineering.
Welcome to another week of Hopkins Sports in Review! By now, we’re in the full swing of the academic year. Things might be busy due to exams, but it’s still the fall sports season and lots of exciting events happened over the past week. From opponents traveling thousands of miles across the world to the games that took place on Homewood Field, the sports teams were full of action.
School is officially back in session! It’s been a couple of weeks since our first day of classes, and so the fall season of Hopkins sports are well underway. The 2024-25 was an immense success for the Blue Jays, as they finished runners up in the DIII Learfield Director’s Cup, only trailing Emory University. Hopefully this season can see continued success across all disciplines, and perhaps a first place finish in the Director’s Cup to make it three in four years! Without further ado, let’s look at some of the action from the beginning of the season…
College is a transformative time in many people’s lives, and a major aspect of this experience is the people you meet and befriend. However, making friends can seem intimidating when you first step on campus. While there is no single “right” way to go about making friends, here are some things to keep in mind to help you as you begin this chapter of your life.
For a while during my first semester of college, I could not separate Mondays from Tuesdays, Tuesdays from Wednesdays, Wednesdays from Thursdays and so on. My days were a blur of class, some form of lunch from Charles Street Market, studying, dinner and then more studying until midnight at minimum.
Out of the one or two things I learned about college, probably none of them prepared me for the unique obstacles that international students face. Just because I had to figure everything out alone doesn’t mean you have to. So, here are a couple of things I learned.
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Transitioning to college and beginning that “new college chapter” can seem daunting, especially for those unfamiliar with the University’s surrounding areas. Hopkins is nestled between Charles Village and Hampden, two bustling and charming Baltimore neighborhoods. With such a convenient and lively atmosphere comes an assortment of essentials to ensure your Hopkins experience is safe and worthwhile.
Has anyone ever told you that you need to be an extrovert or outgoing to join a club? Well, I’m here to bust that myth — not with the overused phrase “there’s a place for everyone,” because let’s be honest: life is truly not that black and white. The pressure to define yourself in clear-cut terms can be daunting, to fit yourself in one specific box and feel the need to stay there because you’re afraid of the change that may come from exploring a new part of yourself. I know, because I’ve been there. I thought that freshman year would define me, but over the course of my three years, I’ve learned just how much room there is to grow.
You’ve just arrived at Hopkins, a place where you’ll likely be spending your next four (or five... or eight... or 12...) years. You’re meeting a lot of new people and getting bombarded with endless information from your First-Year Mentor, Resident Advisor and Ron Daniels. While all this may seem overwhelming at first, you’ll get into the swing of things eventually. Here are a few things that helped me — and might help you — settle in and make Homewood Campus your home.
In the end, every “first” I met at Hopkins — person, place, moment — taught me something about who I was and who I could become. I didn’t expect a campus, a group of strangers, a pile of dirty laundry or a lost friendship to matter this much. But they did. And that’s the real secret of firsts: you don’t get to choose which ones last.