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Smiti Mittal

Smiti Mittal, originally from New Delhi, India, contributes to News, Satire, and Podcasts. Contact her at smiti06 'at' stanford.edu.
Academics
Pascaline Dupas, new Faculty Director of the King Center. (Photo: Rod Searcey, Courtesy of Pascaline Dupas)

New King Center faculty director talks future plans, research during COVID-19

Smiti Mittal
  •  
Sept. 17, 2020
Campus Life
Front of Stanford's financial aid office

Delayed arrival of financial aid letters complicates student plans

Smiti Mittal and Tianyu Fang
  •  
Sept. 13, 2020
University
Photo: Wikimedia Commons

Coalition of Stanford organizations calls for ‘Reverse Town Hall’ to discuss systemic racism, University’s COVID response, students’ basic needs

Smiti Mittal
  •  
Aug. 27, 2020
Arts & Life
An illustration of Franny by David Richardson, aptly showing how disturbed and disdainful she often is. (Source: Litkicks)

A rumination on disillusionment: J. D. Salinger’s ‘Franny and Zooey’

Smiti Mittal
  •  
Aug. 19, 2020
Campus Life
(Photo: L.A. CICERO/Stanford News Service)

After facing ICE directive scare, some international students celebrate approved requests for all-year housing

Smiti Mittal
  •  
July 30, 2020
Campus Life
(Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Students for Workers’ Rights to raise $30,000 for laid-off Row and Suites workers

Smiti Mittal
  •  
July 20, 2020
Arts & Life
An image of Edward Hopper’s ‘Nighthawks,’ a painting analysed in depth in Laing’s ‘The Lonely City.’ (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

A quarantine essential: Olivia Laing’s history of loneliness and art in New York City

Smiti Mittal
  •  
July 17, 2020
Arts & Life
An image of ‘The Relief of Lucknow’ by Thomas Jones Baker, depicting one of the many sieges of 1857 that inspired ‘The Siege of Krishnapur.’ (Photo: Wikimedia Commons).

When a white author writes about colonialism: J. G. Farrell’s ‘The Siege of Krishnapur’

Smiti Mittal
  •  
July 6, 2020
Arts & Life
A Tale from the Decameron, by John William Waterhouse, 1916. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)

Epidemic escapism in Boccacio’s ‘Decameron’

Smiti Mittal
  •  
June 29, 2020
University
(Photo: ALLISON HARMAN/The Stanford Daily)

Grad students call on deans for increased financial, legal support across schools

Smiti Mittal
  •  
June 8, 2020
News
Students in Think 65 explore pathways to human extinction through discussions and individual research projects on potential threats. (Graphic: Amy Lo/The Stanford Daily).

THINK 65 examines paths to human extinction

Smiti Mittal
  •  
June 1, 2020
University
The graph shows the percentage of academic units taught by lecturers versus professors for the 2016-17 Academic Year, according to a University report. (Graph: SHAO FANG WANG/The Stanford Daily)

Lecturers worry about job security during pandemic

Smiti Mittal
  •  
May 25, 2020
News
(Photo: L.A. CICERO/Stanford News Service)

International students adapt to shifting academic circumstances

Smiti Mittal
  •  
April 28, 2020
Humor
A newly-formed website called WiTree-Leaks reported that the strain of mono scheduled to circulate at Full Moon On The Quad this year contained a mutation engineered to produce profound effects on the belief systems of students. (Photo: Nick Youngson/Alpha Stock Images)

New strain of mono that alters victims’ political alignments engineered just in time for FMOTQ

Smiti Mittal
  •  
Jan. 12, 2020
Humor
While the choice of the word “midterm” was not in and of itself problematic, the way it was defined hurt the feelings of several Stanford midterms — just ask CHEM 31. (photo: Dictionary.com)

Stanford midterms marginalized by latest Dictionary.com ‘Word of the Day’

Smiti Mittal
  •  
Nov. 13, 2019
Humor
To pass the cheese touch on, a student from a carrier dorm needs to come in direct physical contact with one from the receiving dorm. (photo: Pixabay)

Vaden introduces inter-dorm Cheese Touch Battle to combat norovirus

Smiti Mittal
  •  
Oct. 27, 2019
Humor
Enchanted Broccoli Forest, a residential building, surrounded by trees.

Mob of freshmen shows up to ESF Plenary thinking it’s EBF

Smiti Mittal
  •  
Oct. 21, 2019
The Stanford Daily

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