By Bella Nordman, Kasteel Well Bureau Chief, Opinion
/ November 19, 2025
The penny circulated our pockets for two centuries, and still there are 250 billion of them escaping from cash registers to our hands. Pennies will continue...
By Tess Gleason, Deputy Kasteel Well Bureau Chief, News
/ November 19, 2025
Everyone wants to be chosen. They want to be the applicant who gets the job, the person who wins over their crush, or the favorite in their friend group....
By Rina Laby, Deputy Arts & Lifestyle Editor
/ November 12, 2025
Is woke really back? It sure seems like it, as Zohran Mamdani begins his transition period in New York City and Democrats elsewhere won their races decisively.
Those...
Distance makes the heart grow fonder, or at least that’s what everyone says. But what happens when distance actually makes the heart grow worried sick...
I’ll never forget crying in my bedroom after a boy in high school told me nobody wanted to be my friend, that everyone found me annoying, and that it...
By Bella Nordman, Kasteel Well Bureau Chief, Opinion
/ November 12, 2025
Would you think I am attractive based on the way I write? Maybe based on the language I use, or my niches? Not to break the fourth wall, but I wonder this...
By Josie Arteaga, Deputy Kasteel Well Bureau Chief, Opinion
/ November 6, 2025
A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine posted a suspicious picture of what was undoubtedly the back of a man's head to her Instagram story. At the bottom...
Around a year ago, my friends decided to go to Red Robin after one of their birthday parties. I had prior engagements and was unable to attend, but was...
By Josie Arteaga, Deputy Kasteel Well Bureau Chief, Opinion
/ October 29, 2025
It’s officially Halloweekend eve. Soon, as throngs of college students finalize their costumes and prepare official plans for the festivities ahead,...
I’ve had posthumous albums on my mind lately. Not just because I hate them and everything they stand for, but because I’ve been listening to a whole...
By Josie Arteaga, Deputy Kasteel Well Bureau Chief, Opinion
/ October 22, 2025
Over the weekend, major presidential elections took place in Bolivia, my home country. For the first time in almost 20 years, the long-reigning political...
Our TikTok feeds have been inundated with girls dressed as the Lorax—wearing neon orange nylon bodysuits stuffed with pillows for bellies, big fluffy...
By Soham Gupta, Beacon Contributor
/ October 22, 2025
I have just moved to the United States. The English here is not what I learnt at home.
As an international student from India attending a liberal arts...
By Tess Gleason, Deputy Kasteel Well Bureau Chief, News
/ October 15, 2025
In my sociology class last semester, one of my classmates attributed the increased aggression and fighting among middle school and high school students...
By Josie Arteaga, Deputy Kasteel Well Bureau Chief, Opinion
/ October 1, 2025
After a long, brutal summer, Boston felt like a much-needed clean slate. After all, I was moving into the dorm I wanted with my best friends, taking classes...