Recent content by Beaviss

I just finished reading a fantastic piece from the Colgate magazine about G. Arthur Cooper's collecting trips , and it got me thinking about the long arc of a scientific career. We often get so hyper-focused on the immediate goal—publishing the next paper, defending the thesis—that we forget we...

Lately, I’ve been feeling really burned out by the news cycle. It’s just disaster after disaster, which is why I’ve consciously shifted my own "sustainability writing" focus toward solutions journalism. For my campus newsletter column, I’ve stopped just reporting on the problems and started...

I used to ignore stroke order. Who cares if I write left to right or right to left? The character looks the same, right? Wrong. Learning proper stroke order transformed my writing. The official Shanghai government website explains that stroke order follows universal rules: top to bottom, left...

When I was stressed about applications, my mom said something simple: "Just tell them who you are and why you care. The right place will see you." It sounds corny, but it actually helped me write better cover letters. I stopped trying to sound like some perfect corporate robot and started being...