The cafe’s cozy, picturesque decorations put the young girl at ease. The wooden paneling and fireplace crackling to the left of the eatery gave it a ‘cabin in winter’ atmosphere. I guess not much has changed, she chuckled to herself, glancing at all the different desserts displayed on the cashier’s counters; lemon cakes, cinnamon rolls oozing with syrup, strawberry truffles with powdered sugar snow on top. And milkshakes! She thought excitedly. My future self picked a good pl

The detachment from the self Both figurative And literal. My human inclinations No longer addressed. A creature I have become, Monstrous Hungry Restless. With only one aim I journey forward. The long lost treasures of the past I am hunting Looking for a passage to my salvation Looking for a route to guide me home. To the northern star, My fixed point. To the lighthouse, My guide. I am a creature of disfigurations Lost and alone On the shore Where the rigorous wind penetrates

Consider me that one aunt that always has something negative to say at the dinner table. It’s me again, finding an issue with something that is not necessarily flawed. I think I hate technology. And definitely not in the your-teacher-from-highschool way, but also totally in that way. I don’t enjoy technology simply because I’m just really bad at it. However, one of the things that I do love about tech is the ability to organize. I love organizing. At the start of the semester

In a viral TED talk video from 2015, billionaire and philanthropist Bill Gates warned about our unpreparedness for potential pandemics given our past experiences in dealing with viruses from the 1918 flu outbreak until the last Ebola crisis. Gates suggested we prepare to fight a virus as we would prepare for war, by strengthening our health systems, creating medical corps, and pairing medical and military. Now, as we are facing the COVID-19 pandemic, countries with weaker hea

Many people have never experienced in their lifetime a pandemic the scale of COVID-19, where our way of life has changed dramatically in response. We are required to self-quarantine and maintain social distancing, while prevented from going about our everyday lives. This pandemic has also exposed a questionable side to humanity. Throughout the world, people are panic-buying items like hand sanitizers, toilet paper, and surgical masks to the point that shelves are completely e

Coronavirus lockdown is boring. Life has stalled, and you can’t go out as you used to, to malls, movies, restaurants, and more. You are stuck in your room with nothing to do and would love to have something to entertain you. Is there a way you can treat yourself in this situation for free? Certainly! Here are a few resources that you can use. For some of these resources (as indicated), you might need to install the Georgetown SFSQ off-campus VPN, and the instructions to enabl