I’ve been stereotyped before. Last week, my neighbor told me that I speak like a white person, as if African Americans cannot speak properly. When I...

To the Editor: Writing as just one of the 500 very different people holding very different views who make up the current membership of the Marlboro...

After I started dating my boyfriend my second semester of freshman year, I quickly found out the college-provided health insurance covers birth control...

My mom peer-pressured me to drink in high school.  When I say peer-pressured, I do not mean she encouraged me to do keg stands or taught me how to...

This winter break I’m bringing home two suitcases: one full of clothes, one empty.  I'll fill the empty one with frozen Filipino food like sapin-sapin...

Holding television characters accountable for their actions is a relatively new concept that, when attempted, usually falls flat.  The victim is often...

Have you ever been ghosted by an internship?  You start by pouring your heart and soul into a word-vomit cover letter and a resume that exemplifies...

My high school boyfriend’s dreary old minivan was a staple in our driveway. He hugged my mom when they crossed paths in public, watched football games...

During the first semester of my freshman year in 2017, I walked into my suite mates’ room and closed the door behind me. “I think I’m bisexual,”...

A key figure in English literature, Oscar Wilde, once admitted: “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read...

Counting down to 2020, I've started drafting the list of my New Year's resolutions: read more books, go to the gym every day, get more sleep. But these...

Abigail Semple is the executive treasurer for Emerson College's Student Government Association. Although it has been a long and rocky semester, we, as...

When someone hears my last name, they often tell me something along the lines of “I didn’t know you were Hispanic.”  Growing up in a predominantly...

As Emerson continues to expand its academics and its campus, the Student Government Association functions as a vital pipeline among students, the administration,...

Last February, my girlfriend approached me at a party and gave me a fist bump because she was going to go make out with one of my best friends, and I...

I have had plenty of leadership and followership positions, and I have royally messed up all of them. If I could intern in making mistakes, I would reject...

This Wednesday, President M. Lee Pelton set foot in Marlboro College for the first time since announcing the Marlboro-Emerson merger. Emerson plans to...

Last week, my digital journalism professor stopped me after class and asked to talk to me.  I instantly was seized with worry—was I in trouble? Had...

One night in early 2018, a friend and I sat on a bench in the Boston Common and smoked cannabis. A Boston police officer approached us; “There’s no...