Serena Mao At my school, being “busy” is almost worn like a badge of pride. In the hallways, it’s not uncommon to hear people battling over how little sleep they got the night before. Students are almost excited to tell their friends …
Read More »Common Elitism
Serena Mao When we were the youngest of the group––whether as the novice on the team, the 6th grader in middle school, or the new kid in class––we all know what it feels like to be isolated from the elite. Indeed, it …
Read More »UCSC Strike
Serena Mao On February 28th, UC Santa Cruz dismissed 54 teaching assistants after they had engaged in a so-called “wildcat strike” for higher wages. The university president explained that she was sympathetic to the high cost of housing in Santa Cruz, but …
Read More »The Generational Split
Serena Mao Social change is abundant in America. Since its founding, its ideals have been changed and warped through time. For instance, early Americans created the social construct of race to control the “subordinates” and slaves, thus influencing the perspectives and stereotypes …
Read More »Take a Break
Serena Mao Running into problems can be frustrating, especially when it means we start obsessing indefinitely about them and see no end in sight. A problem we can’t seem to solve or an idea we can’t seem to squeeze out from our …
Read More »The Need for Consistency
Serena Mao No one is an all-knowing robot––all of us have times where we are wrong about things. Sometimes, we realize that an opinion we originally held wasn’t necessarily correct before making that opinion public, thus hiding the fact that we were …
Read More »Racism and the Coronavirus
Serena Mao The world’s attention has suddenly been focused on a virus that has seen a recent outbreak: the coronavirus. Around 200 people in China have already died due to the virus, and the outbreak has spread to a just under 18 …
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