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The first-ever UEFA Champions League (UCL) playoffs took place over the past two weeks, as 16 teams battled it out for eight Round of 16 spots. In case you missed out on the action, let me catch you up on the world’s most prestigious club soccer competition. This is part two to an earlier article, so make sure you check that out as well!
The first-ever UEFA Champions League (UCL) playoffs took place over the past two weeks, as 16 teams battled it out for eight Round of 16 spots. In case you missed out on the action, let me catch you up on the world’s most prestigious club soccer competition. The breakdown is split into two parts, so be on the look out for part two!
When my parents and I decided that I would study college abroad, we signed a silent agreement: Long breaks were for them; otherwise, I was free. Despite quietly signing this tacit negotiation, deep down I’ve known that I had to give up summer holidays to internships and research programs eventually. I dismissed this thought and made it my future self’s problem to breach the contract, yet when I got accepted to the intern abroad program I applied to, I knew I couldn’t postpone the discussion any further.
On Friday, Feb. 21 Hopkins at Home, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Agora Institute, and the Alumni in Government, Academia, Law & Policy Community hosted “Executive Power: How Presidential Authority Reshapes Our Relationship with Democracy and Daily Life” as the first online event of a four-part series titled "First 100 Days: From Home to Abroad.” Each part seeks to examine a different facet of executive power during the first 100 days of President Donald J. Trump’s second term.
I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve eaten oysters in my life, mostly because my mom is allergic to them, but a couple of weeks ago, I found myself eating an exorbitant amount of them with some college friends because of a 75-cent deal. There I was with my friends, ecstatically ordering oyster after oyster and laughing away, thinking, will life always be like this?
This week’s installment of To Watch and Watch For is riding in on the coattails of our first warm-weather days on campus. As spring revealed its hand early, students took to Keyser Quad with picnic blankets, friends and, of course, open laptops reviewing material for their upcoming midterms.
Editor’s Note: This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
Dear Kaitlin,
On Tuesday, Feb. 19 the East Asian Studies Department hosted an event titled “Comparative History Matters: Health Insurance, Medicine, and Ideology in China and Taiwan” as a part of their Spring 2025 Speaker Series. The event featured Wayne Soon, an associate professor in the Program of the History of Medicine in the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities, who discussed the political and social dynamics that have shaped health care policy in China and Taiwan since the end of the World War Two.
On Tuesday, Feb. 25 the Student Government Association (SGA) convened for their weekly meeting. They reviewed a plan for the Hopkins Student Center, presented a survey on study spaces and passed a bill regarding an upcoming alumni event.
Your life is recorded in the millions of trillions of muggy fingerprints you leave behind in every decision you make: Innermost secrets spill out in the non-privacy of your internet searches, the political party you voted for last election and the text you sent your mom yesterday.
1–Across: Sounds like a sweet dinner course
Through my veins runs a liquid similar to everyone else's, but as a Philadelphia Eagles fan, the sustenance has a unique color and composition we sum up as “green.”
On Feb. 21, 2025, the Black Student Union (BSU) hosted the “Legacy and Progress” event, showcasing an alumni panel and a museum exhibition with stories and photographs dating back to BSU’s founding in 1968.
On Feb. 7, the second floor of The LaB was set up with rows of chairs, ready for students to take their seats in preparation for the open mic that was about to commence. The MC for the night? Kiera “Ashlee Haze” Nelson — a poet and spoken word artist from Atlanta, Ga. by way of Chicago.
On Wednesday, Feb. 19, the Johns Hopkins University Police Accountability Board hosted their second meeting of the spring semester to discuss policies and logistics of the Johns Hopkins Police Department (JHPD). The board, which was established in 2019, is tasked with presenting community feedback to University and JHPD administration, reviewing JHPD crime metrics, and assessing procedures and training to recommend improvements.
Despite the hardship the COVID-19 pandemic inflicted on many globally, it sparked immense progress in rapid testing for infectious disease: One could take a test quickly at home to determine whether they were infected, accelerating disease detection, treatment and recovery. Such innovation was partially championed by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Innovative Diagnostics for Infectious Diseases (JHCIDID).
For years, I’ve let numbers define me. The number on the scale. The number of calories consumed. The number of minutes spent exercising. It was a battle I fought silently, a war waged against myself, my body and my mind.
6–Across: Avoid cooking, in a way
Hollywood, Calif. has always been a place where fiction blurs into reality, co-stars fall in love on set or off-screen drama makes for just as compelling a spectacle as the films themselves. And every so often, a story comes along reminding us that while Hollywood thrives on romance and fantasy, it’s also a deeply flawed industry filled with power struggles, questionable decisions and enough scandal to fuel the tabloids for years. Enter Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni and a film adaptation that was supposed to be about breaking cycles of abuse — but might have just exposed another one in the process.