by Alia Wong | Jul 17, 2020 | education, health care, higher education, lifestyle, parenting
As the number of coronavirus cases surges across the U.S., skepticism is mounting over colleges’ ability to resume campus activity in the fall. Still, as of mid-July, around 55% of colleges were aiming for an in-person fall semester while another 30% were...
by Alia Wong | Apr 27, 2020 | gender, health care, language & culture, lifestyle
Charlotte Lau is a self-described “digital nomad.” The 31-year-old American citizen has lived and worked in other countries since graduating with a bachelor’s in international relations roughly a decade ago. Born and raised in New York City, Lau was always fascinated...
by Alia Wong | Oct 7, 2019 | child development, lifestyle
Middle school. The very memory of it prompts disgust. Here’s a thing no one’s thinking: Geez, I wish I still looked the way I did when I was 12. Middle school is the worst. Tweenhood, which starts around age 9, is horrifying for a few reasons. For one,...
by Alia Wong | Aug 31, 2019 | higher education, lifestyle
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, several outbreaks of infectious disease in the U.S., including the flu, tuberculosis, and pneumonia, prompted public-health officials and homemaking experts to suggest a tweak to American...
by Alia Wong | Jun 18, 2019 | government, higher education, lifestyle, politics, race
Like most other colleges across the country, Newbury College, a small, private liberal-arts school in Brookline, Massachusetts, held classes through the end of this past spring semester and then bid farewell to cap-and-gown-wearing seniors. But unlike almost every...
by Alia Wong | Apr 10, 2019 | higher education, lifestyle, race, uncategorized
Every year at this time, headlines reveal once again what everyone already knows: America’s top institutions are selective—very. Harvard took a record-low 4.5 percent of the applicants to its 2023 class. Yale accepted 5.9 percent, the same as the...
