“How do you maintain life and dirty laundry? I need a deep dive into time management as a college student with newfound responsibilities and independence.”
Can I say something controversial? I love...
Elliot Tower rings three times, and you sprint under the walkway, realizing that you’re already late to your 3 p.m. lecture. In the basement of the Oakland Center, students are playing billiards, while...
The worst thing you can do in Paris is too much. You can spend your days racing through the Louvre, catching back-to-back reservations and scrambling across the city until you get 30,000 steps in one day.
But...
Étretat
“I need to get out of the city,” I said, huffing to my friend, gripping the germ-filled metro pole.
It was true: Paris is a lot. I’ve started to tune out the constant alarms coming...
With the first half of the year gone by, the U.S. witnessed 14,713 protests just in the first five months — 1,000 more protests than those that occurred in the same days of Trump’s previous administration....
A new routine
I've finally started to fall into a good routine in Paris. The initial overwhelm and chaos has faded. I (mostly) know my way around the city. Tuesday dinners are now reserved for Taco...
“We met on Hinge,” you say, holding your fiancé's hand while introducing him to your grandmother.
It’s oddly unromantic.
In an age of digitalization, it makes sense that our romantic lives...
For the first time in six weeks, I finally have the time to sit down and write for The Oakland Post. In May, when final exams ended, I packed up a suitcase and headed to Paris for the first half of my...
A question about 19th-century ceramics can only turn into an hour-long explanation of the historical ideology of the sacredness of motherhood by the hand of Anthropology Professor, Suzanne Spencer-Wood....
July first became a paradoxical Groundhog Day as Natanael Cano, one of the pioneers of the corrido tumbados genre — Mexican folk songs revamped with trap — released his latest album, “Porque La Demora”...
If you’re reading this now: I’ll be in Paris.
My entire closet is on the floor. Three sundresses are packed into my suitcase, and everything else is scattered on my floor in chaotic piles. I’m...
My car is broken. My beautiful 2016 Chevrolet Equinox is currently sitting in the garage, with her hood popped open.
It’s like I’m looking at an operating table. My dad is in cargo shorts and a...
