I am displeased with how our Physics Department has served me. Not in that it had bad intentions or treated me with…
In academia these days, it is hard to escape the seemingly stagnant binary set up between STEM and the humanities. For many…
The number of Swarthmore seniors graduating with degrees in English has dropped significantly over the last several decades, while a growing number…
Note on the Title The second symbol in the title is an “epsilon.” It sounds Greek. It sounds geek! It’s both. I…
In my previous piece, I outlined this pervasive feeling of being <, this mix of imposter syndrome, stereotype threat, and my own…
When I was young, probably 4th grade or so, my mother told me I wasn’t a “S.T.E.M. person.” My mother is a…
I have been asking myself since elementary school: Why are there so few women in science, technology, engineering, and math? Women and…
The humanities — defined as the “big four” of English, languages, philosophy, and history — are in decline. Intellectuals and the public…
According to a Swarthmore Institutional Research compilation of the class of 2018, four different popular majors have a disproportionate amount of students…
It’s September of 2018, and I am officially a junior at Swat. I feel a little queasy just seeing that in writing…