Humanity started the 20th century, not knowing how to fly and ended it with nuclear weapons, moon landings, and the internet. Our technological advancements are not slowing down anytime soon. We can already see significant improvements in reusable rocket technology, artificial intelligence, neural lacing, quantum computing, and cybersecurity. The field…

Since the beginning of the 20th-century humanity has undergone a massive technological transformation. We started the 20th century, not knowing how to fly and ended it with atomic bombs, the internet, and moon landings. Humanity certainly learned many lessons from the 20th century, and now our technological progression is happening…

Abstract It is safe to assume that the most popular forms of legal issues have had thousands of cases in which some have populated several baseline precedents. These precedents are created over decades or even hundreds of years. This statement, however, most certainly does not apply to the nearly four-decade-old world…

I’m thirty years younger than everyone else in my book club. However, instead of meeting at the local bookstore, we assemble at a Pulitzer-prize winning newspaper office. So rather than being comprised of 40-year-old homemakers, we are made up of accomplished journalists from across the state of Missouri. Every month…

At six, I’d put on art shows in the basement with placards from Hallmark. I’d encourage my mother’s piano students to walk around while I sat on my red stool and balanced a pencil on my ear like the artists in the movies. When asked to point out my favorites…

Nerd camp — where we gathered to enjoy a summer of intellectual stimulation and engagement. We’d arrest ourselves with games of mafia and philosophical readings from Heidegger, all anchored together by our daytime classes. During my first summer, I signed up for the international relations course — a three-week long…

Sitting at the editor’s desk before the fourth-hour bell, I sip my dark roast in peace. There is chaos to come. The staff arrives, and we’re off: 49 minutes to interview and write, in the thick of layout week. It’s our newsroom. It’s invigorating. It’s where I’ve come thus far…

After doing extensive research on all that UMass Amherst has to offer, I have concluded that it can best be described as a school of incredible contradictions. It is a state university, with 26,000 students. However, the Commonwealth Honors College is composed of under 4,000. …

The house is silent, six people sleeping above and below me, my brother across the hall. Once I finish my homework, now neatly arranged at the corner of my desk, I throw on headphones and, in full blast, turn on the video. Since the onset of my freshman year, I’ve…