The Johns Hopkins News-Letter

4 weeks ago | jhunewsletter.com | Aimee Cho

I have meant to write for the Voices section for a very long time. It’s supposed to be the section where you can say anything and everything: no headaches over finding solid evidence or getting interviews with good quotes. And yet, I have never written a single piece until now — less than a month away from graduation. I blame this partly on the News and Features section for making my writing voiceless (no bias is the way to go).

4 weeks ago | jhunewsletter.com | Molly Green

It is warm again. Trees flower and shed like snow, dandelions sprout up in sidewalk cracks and, even though people say they are weeds, I am struck again by their undeniable beauty. Their white seeds twist into the wind. I make a wish. It is spring, and for years I have collected books from those little free libraries that dot street corners like weeds. Now, I return them — two books to my block, a book for the park, two for my favorite coffee shop.

1 month ago | jhunewsletter.com | Aimee Cho

I like the color purple. The number 22, the season of autumn and definitely cats over dogs. Everytime I try to explain what fuels my affections, I don’t have much to say: I am just drawn to them for no good reason that I can pinpoint. That is exactly what I feel about research. When someone asks me why I love it, all I can say is one thing: I don’t know. I just know. Before coming to Hopkins, I had never, ever, in my life imagined being a researcher.

1 month ago | jhunewsletter.com | Alicia Guevara

On March 28, Netflix’s latest rom-com endeavor was released: The Life List. I’ll admit, I had low expectations. The alliterated title did not inspire high hopes. I love Sofia Carson — the lead actress — but mostly because I watched and loved the Descendants movies as a kid. I was not actually aware that she continued to act after those films. But mainly, my reservations stemmed from how much the plot sounded like it could belong to a made-for-TV Hallmark movie.

1 month ago | jhunewsletter.com | Pagan Kennedy |Janet Sayre |Caragh O'Brien |Jenny Xie |Lizzie Skurnick |Gina Apostol | +5 more

To members of the Johns Hopkins University community:In March of this year, we marked five years since the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. Sadly, in January of this year, we observed the start of another grave assault on our nation’s well-being, an assault brought about not by a virus, but by the orders and actions of the current presidential administration.