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I’ve been wanting to write an article for my mom, but never know where to start. An anecdote would be reductionist. A compliment would feel flattening. Any rendering would be static — and maybe that’s at the heart of it, that writing commits something to paper and necessarily asks us to draw pieces together into a neat picture. But people are not neat pictures, least of all those we know well.
19 is such a “middle child.” You’re past that initial excitement you had at 18 of technically being an adult, but you’re also still mentally a teen because your age doesn’t start with a 2. Yes, I’m turning 20 in about three months, and it feels very strange, but let this piece be something I can look back on years into the future.
Every spring semester, the Student Government Association (SGA) organizes campuswide elections to select the next group of student representatives. These elections are administered by the Committee on Student Elections (CSE), an independent body authorized by the SGA Constitution to regulate and oversee all elections. The committee sets election procedures, verifies candidate eligibility and manages the voting process to ensure elections are conducted fairly.
5-Across: With 4-Down, season that starts in March
Let me take you back to November 28th, 2025. It is 23:15 and to a group of friends, I text:
On Thursday, March 5, the Homewood Museum at Hopkins hosted “Decision Points at Homewood House,” where Professor Andrew Jewett presented on the history of the five presidents of Hopkins who resided at Homewood House from 1936 to 1971. Jewett explained the expansion of the faculty and student body of Hopkins, the process of racial integration, the beginning of coeducation and other institutional developments during these years.
As the season of midterms comes to an end, the season of growth begins, and spring arrives with its full force of beauty. Whether you’re going through the peak of your midterms now or already out enjoying the spring weather, hopefully you’ll be able to find some time to enjoy these picks from the Arts section!
From Feb. 26 to March 1, the International Studies program hosted the annual Hopkins Model United Nations Conference (HOP MUNC). Model United Nations (MUN) is an educational simulation in which students compete as representatives from different countries in public speaking events. During these conferences, students debate and work to solve diverse transnational issues while practicing public speaking techniques and learning more about international diplomacy. Participants at the Hopkins MUN chapter engage with the organization by competing in different conferences and volunteering to staff HOP MUNC. At this conference, delegates from across the nation, hailing from other academic institutions, gathered at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center in Washington, D.C., to role-play a range of United Nations (UN) committees and debate pressing global matters.
There’s a sort of ineffable magic in my hometown.
A little over two months ago, I turned twenty. Candles with beaming numbers had flared at me as their glossy pools of wax spilled over from the seismic shake of cake-bearing arms. I watched my mother’s eyes flicker closed as her voice took on the familiar cadence of a birthday tune.
Looking back on art, we might as well start from the beginning. We know in France, in the dark wombs of mountains, there are caves filled with ancient paintings. The largest cave system, the Chauvet Cave, dates back to 32,000 years ago, and it was discovered by three cavers in 1994. It is since closed to the public; reopening the cave would grow fungi and deteriorate the cold, damp walls across which run bison and bears and horses. We know that there are prehistoric animals there — we have photos — but to keep them alive, we cannot look at them, nor be with them.
7-Across: Indie artist Impala
2-Down: US figure skater Malinin
Yes, it’s almost break. No, that doesn't mean Hopkins sports stop because everyone has lots of midterms coming up. This week's edition is full of exciting action, surprises, mild disappointments and championships. But, Hopkins sports faithful, we’re here for you with the rundown.
Elephants, it turns out, have been outsmarting scientists for decades — just not in the way we originally thought. Joshua Plotnik, director of Comparative Cognition for Conversation Lab at the City University of New York, delivered a PBS Colloquium lecture on March 4 in Gilman Hall about cognitive flexibility in Asian elephants and revealed a few of the insights gained in the field of comparative cognition.
This weekend highlights Baltimore’s creative scene across music, literature and the performing arts. From jazz sets and poetry readings to student showcases and opera, the lineup moves between intimate performances and larger cultural events throughout the city. Whether you are settling into a listening room, a museum gallery or a concert hall, the weekend offers plenty of ways to step off campus and into Baltimore’s arts community.
As innocent bystanders in the rapidly changing hellscape of the English language, semicolons have received far too much disrespect. It breaks our hearts.
The U.S. has, since the start of the new year, conducted military strikes and operations in both Venezuela and Iran, capturing President Nicolás Maduro and killing Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. This marks a surprising militant turn in U.S. foreign policy in recent decades, which is now focusing on military rather than diplomatic operations to topple foreign leaders. This, however, presents a larger issue regarding the role and image of the United States across the world and for other pro-Western democratization movements’ survival.
John P. Toscano is a professor in the Hopkins Department of Chemistry. He joined the department in 1995 as an assistant professor, eventually becoming a full professor in 2003. He later served as vice-chair of the department in 2004, and served as chair from 2005 to 2011 and again from 2013 to 2014. He also served as vice dean and interim dean for the University’s natural science departments.
For NFL diehards out there, this period without football can be difficult... but thankfully the offseason is just kicking off, and with that comes the multitudes of mock drafts, free agency predictions and the frenzies of the trade season! The Draft Combine has just wrapped up in Indianapolis, and with it came some truly mind-boggling results from some of the best athletes on the planet. As the draft season progresses, there will be plenty more movement on each team’s boards, so why not have some fun with some predictions of where players might land come April!