The Johns Hopkins News-Letter

5 days 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).

3 weeks 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.

4 weeks 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.

1 month ago | jhunewsletter.com | Anne Li

I’d like to think that I’ve done many hard things in life: I moved to a new country; I learned to speak English fluently in a household that did not; I got accepted into the college of my dreams as a first generation student. But learning to love myself was the hardest thing I’ve ever learned to do. Growing up in an Asian household, compliments rarely existed. Loving myself did not exist because I was not taught or shown how to love.