As my semester as editor-in-chief comes to an end, I want to share the work we have done to revise our policies regarding social media coverage. Our formal...
By Mer Hughes, Multimedia Managing Editor & Layout Editor
/ April 30, 2026
With a few late — or sleepless — nights left of the semester, many Emersonians have already left Boylston Street for whatever their summer has in store:...
I’ve always been really good at leaving.
Part of that comes from where I grew up: in post-Soviet Georgia, where war felt like a constant possibility...
A few weeks back, hundreds of soon-to-be Emersonians descended on our campus for Admitted Students Day like newborns, goo-goo-ing on Duck Tours and ga-ga-ing...
Last week, we — Iselin Bratz, the current Editor-in-Chief, and Meg Richards, last semester's EIC — held a focus group with six students from various...
Closing out my first year at Emerson, I’ve been thinking about everything I’ve experienced and, even more so, what I haven’t.
While I’ve experienced...
Nothing really noteworthy happened this weekend, but I thought I’d tell you something anyway, because I suddenly have no one else to tell it to: On Friday,...
I was met with his scowl after opening the door for myself. Despite walking faster than my date around Faneuil Hall, he was angry that I did not allow...
By Mer Hughes, Multimedia Managing Editor & Layout Editor
/ April 15, 2026
Now that the brisk New England winter is behind us, the picnic tables are back in the 2 Boylston alley. But one thing is always in season: smoking.
Discarded...
On a windy Monday morning, I was walking my usual route for a cup of coffee when the wind shifted — and suddenly, I was back in my mother’s arms, wrapped...
This article includes discussion of sexual assault.
While many of us begin to relish the slightly warmer weather and despise the ever-encroaching doom...
By Mer Hughes, Multimedia Managing Editor & Layout Editor
/ April 8, 2026
President Donald Trump reached new levels of Truth Social shit-posting in the early days of April. On Easter Sunday, he delivered an expletive-laden tirade...
By Josie Arteaga, Deputy Kasteel Well Bureau Chief, Opinion
/ April 8, 2026
As an international student, I’ve lived through the highs and lows of uprooting my life to study in a foreign country: Adapting to a new culture where...
Congratulations — you switched to a reusable water bottle! You’re saving the Earth! Then you switched again when a better color dropped, and then once...
The moving trucks show up in May, lining Boylston Street bumper to bumper, hazard lights blinking, parents hauling boxes while their kids say goodbye on...