Senior year is tough. Hours upon hours spent every week on the job hunt grind. Hundreds of LinkedIn job applications. Round after round of technical interviews. My experience has been exactly the opposite. I applied to just one company for a full-time position. A single 90-minute behavioral interview was scheduled almost immediately. A few days...
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Who gets into Northwestern? Who has cheated in a relationship? Who defines the college experience? Who are… (N)U? University campuses today sit at a crossroads of free expression, student activism and a federal administration seeking to influence higher education. At NU, students navigate a politically charged climate amid a federal funding freeze and tensions surrounding...
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I would like to go on record and state clearly the reason why I started “Communal Shower Thoughts.” It was not to one-up my friend who started his column a couple of weeks prior — it was because my creative writing professor said college was a crucial time for prospective authors to seek publishing opportunities...
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Universities across the country are deciding whether to comply with the Trump administration’s funding freeze to crucial research grants, the most recent being Cornell University’s restoration deal effective Nov. 7. Cornell agreed to pay the administration $30 million, while dedicating an additional $30 million to United States agriculture research over three years, to restore funding...
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D’Andre Carter was always the first person to taste his grandmother’s cooking. As a kid, he never thought he would become a chef, even if being the oldest grandchild meant it was his job to be his grandmother’s sous chef. Together, they catered any and every family celebration, from birthdays to graduations, firing up the...
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In Today’s Crossword, 34-Across, 13-Letters: NU’s largest dance show of the year
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Northwestern’s Chemistry Department unveiled a new required course for first-year Ph.D. students Fall Quarter, aiming to fill a gap in education training within the graduate student curriculum. The course, titled Chemistry 515: Theory and Practice of University Teaching, includes topics such as crafting presentations and fair grading, which is supported by educational literature, said chemistry...
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At the Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts, everything from ancient Egyptian textiles to kingfisher feathers can be explored through science-based experiments. “An artwork is never just an artwork,” said McCormick Prof. Maria Kokkori, the program’s senior scientist. Rather, the Center aims to encompass social, historical and scientific aspects of visual arts through a...
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From traditional Chinese and ballet to pole dance and tap, Northwestern has a wealth of dance groups. The university lists 22 groups in the “dance” category. This weekend brings on ReFusionShaka, an annual performance where dance groups Refresh, Fusion and Boomshaka perform together in the fall, but collaborations don’t stop there. “It (may) feel like the...
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