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(05/24/25 10:42pm)
As much as I hoped it would be, my first semester of college was nothing like the made-for-TV movie I’d envisioned. I left my dorm door open like my mom told me to, but nobody stopped by. Students sat six feet apart in the dining hall, and, if you wanted to converse with a stranger, your only feasible solution was to shout. Even the Student Involvement Fair, which I’d imagined being the epicenter of student life, was online. Gone were the sweaty limbs pushing past each other in the gym, the carefully painted posters, the obnoxious upperclassmen desperate for names on their sign-up sheet. Instead, it was just me in pajama pants under my twin-XL covers, staring at a screen of Zoom links.
(05/19/25 12:00am)
As the semester progressed and the end of my tenure as Editor-in-Chief got closer, I expected to feel grief, dread and the desire to prolong my time at Hopkins. Instead, I’ve surprised myself by feeling the opposite and being at peace with the changes to come.
(05/24/25 10:35pm)
Four years ago, when I was gearing up for my freshman year of college, I thought I had everything under control. When I laid everything I needed for college out on my bed, I was not afraid. When my mom helped me pack two massive duffels with clothes, chargers, books, cosmetics, brushes, hairbands, hats, shoes and enough K-Cup Pods to pollute a small island, I was not afraid. When my dad carried everything out to the car — when he placed the duffels alongside pillows, plastic storage bins, my guitar — I was not afraid. I was not afraid when we got in the car, when we left Massachusetts, when we passed through Connecticut, then New York, then New Jersey, then Delaware. When we saw “Maryland Welcomes You,” I was not afraid, nor was I afraid when I saw, stamped in concrete across the front of the Beach, “Johns Hopkins University.”
(05/24/25 9:32pm)
Dear Freshman Samhi,
(05/24/25 9:33pm)
For all the theorems and postulates I’ve learned as a math major, my favorite hypothesis isn’t truly math-based. The branching-worlds theory posits that every decision we make splits our universe into separate parallel realities based on the potential outcomes. So sometimes, when it’s late at night and counting sheep just can’t force me to fall asleep, I think about the past — what would I do differently if I knew my future?
(05/24/25 10:14pm)
Dear Yana,
(05/26/25 7:32am)
In the largest declaration of “bro-culture” in pro golf since John Daly, the 2017 spring break Snapchat stories of Rickie Fowler, Justin Thomas, Jordan Spieth and Smylie Kaufman tearing up the Baker’s Bay Club in the Bahamas took their rightful place in the (albeit sparse) rafters of moments golf that was cool. Seeing the best young players in the world (and Smylie Kaufman, too!) shirtless, with backwards hats, swim trunks on, barefoot and beverages in hand, careening across the course with music blasting became a seminal moment for their perception: harbingers of a new generation, one utterly unconcerned with the establishment’s decorum.
(05/13/25 12:20am)
On Wednesday, April 23, the Hopkins Postdoctoral Researchers Organizing Committee (Hopkins-PRO) filed a petition to form a union with United Auto Workers (UAW), representing 1,600 postdoctoral researchers.
(06/29/25 9:38pm)
In early March, a quiet conquest of green and pink drinks, assortments of aesthetically pleasing toppings and a well-decorated coffee shop dominated my social media feed. I was thus obliged to visit Equitea, a quaint café nestled among rowhouses on the south side of campus. Inside, I noticed a man — who I later discovered was Quentin Vennie — churning out drinks one by one, handcrafting each beverage to perfection.
(05/24/25 10:31pm)
I had my fair share of misconceptions about college. As a first-generation college student, I thought college was going to be like high school. I didn’t have anyone in my family who went to college to tell me otherwise. I got A’s easily in high school; I barely needed to study, rarely reviewed my notes and coasted through Honors and Advanced Placement classes that claimed to “prepare” us for college rigor.
(05/24/25 9:42pm)
What makes a clichéd farewell letter?
(05/08/25 9:44pm)
In April 2025, the Mental Illness Needs Discussion club at the University of South Carolina’s ice bucket challenge saw a surge in popularity, providing critical activism for the mental health movement. However, it is critical to recognize the original purpose of the challenge at its inception in 2014: to raise money and awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a terminal disorder characterized by the degeneration of nerve cells in the spinal cord and the brain.
(05/24/25 10:20pm)
As a two-year editor for the Arts and Entertainment section of The News-Letter, I’ve received some flack for my approach to art criticism, especially in my coverage of Hopkins events. Though rarely said to my face, I’ve heard that my articles haven’t always been received well by certain student artists. I suppose this shouldn’t come as a surprise — one shouldn’t dish out what they can’t take — but it’s hard not to be reflective when I hear about it. It’s hard not to ask: Why did I even decide to publicly critique Hopkins art in the first place?
(05/05/25 1:44am)
On April 26 and 27, the Arellano Theater came alive with more than the wafting smells of vegan sesame chicken and taco meat from the neighboring Levering Kitchen. It was the site for the Witness Theater’s 2025 Spring Showcase: a performance of student-written, student-run plays rejuvenating a campus of otherwise finals-weary Blue Jays.
(05/04/25 8:09am)
As someone who has been (embarrassingly) chronically online since the ripe age of 12, Addison Rae’s influence on pop culture has always been apparent to me, be it positively or negatively. (See: “Hi, drated!”) However, one thing I never saw coming was her foray into pop music — not to mention how successful it has been. Even self-proclaimed skeptics of mainstream TikTokers like myself have found themselves surprisingly on board with Rae’s latest ventures. In my opinion, all four of her recent singles have helped carve out a unique identity for her as a young artist on the rise and, even more importantly, helped breathe fresh life into a monotonous landscape of pop music.
(05/20/25 8:25pm)
April 29 marked a year since the beginning of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment at Hopkins. The primary aim of the encampment, initiated by the Hopkins Justice Collective (HJC) with the support of student organizations and community members, was to spotlight the ongoing genocide in Gaza and demand the University divest from and boycott companies and universities supporting genocide. During the negotiation process, University administrators intimidated students by threatening disciplinary action and police violence to forcefully dismantle the encampment.
(05/02/25 11:31pm)
On Monday, April 28, President Ronald J. Daniels announced in an email that 36 of the 37 previously terminated graduate student visas had been reactivated by the federal government. The following day, April 29, University administrators hosted a second virtual “Community Updates” briefing to elaborate on the reinstatements and discuss broader guidelines and resources for international students.
(05/02/25 10:09pm)
The concert only cost $21.50. The opener had an album peak at No. 19 on the 2023 Billboard Top 200, the main act won Group of the Year and Rock Album of the Year at the 2024 JUNO awards, and yet, only 122 people registered.
(05/04/25 7:35pm)
Why do we keep returning to Greek tragedy? These ancient texts and the way we study them in classrooms can often feel rigid, distant and disconnected from the present. The Department of Classics’ Medea on Trial, held on April 24, offered a compelling answer. It was a student production that was as comedic as it was thoughtful, re-examining the stories of ancient women in what director and Professor Maria Gerolemou described as “a kind of scientific experiment grounded in the humanities.”
(05/13/25 2:02pm)
On Monday, April 21 the University announced a series of initiatives aimed at enhancing intellectual diversity across its community and curriculum in partnership with center-right think tank the American Enterprise Institute (AEI).
