As someone who decided to enroll this year as a freshman, I was curious about why other students decided to take a gap year. So I interviewed three freshmen to hear about their stories during their year in pause, writes Robert Castaneros.

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What I know now is that life isn’t waiting to be lived at the end of quarantine or when I start working or when I have a family of my own or when I retire. As I have come to realize, what’s holy is what’s right in front of me, writes Robert Castaneros.

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During my junior year of high school, I took a class called Catholic Justice and Morality. One of our first assignments for the class was a little macabre: We had to write a eulogy for ourselves.

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Following its debut in 2017, the mismanaged music festival faced great public scrutiny.

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The cuts come after the ASSU reduced the Undergraduate Student Activities fee from $174 to $100, an approximately 40% decrease. The fee, charged to all undergraduate students, funds ASSU annual grants for the 650 VSOs registered with the Office of Student Engagement.

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Dancing feet on carpet flooring. Live concerts for an invisible audience. Images, words, old memories — prompted by introspection — unloaded onto a canvas, a page. This is the “new normal” for student-artists amid the COVID-19 pandemic: with limited access to resources like rehearsal spaces and art supplies, visual and performing artists are finding innovative ways to make and share their art.

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SATIRE: “I admit, intersectionality is an important thing, and I haven’t really done it in high school. But protesting in intersections is important work, even if there’s a risk of getting hit by a car.”

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We have to do a thorough accounting of institutions of power and hold them accountable.

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Schools should be sensibly pessimistic: they should expect the worst from this pandemic and plan accordingly.

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