An open letter to William Deresiewicz: Part II Kimberly Tan September 24, 2014 1 Comment Even if he is accurate in portraying the mentality of the average Ivy League student, however, his critique is not unique to Ivy League students. While some top-tier students may be lured by money and... Read More »
An open letter to Mr. Deresiewicz: We’re not all the same Kimberly Tan August 18, 2014 4 Comments In “Don’t Send Your Kids to the Ivy League,” a viral article in The New Republic last month, author William Deresiewicz seems to have one main goal – to lambast top-tier universities and the... Read More »
Watch Your Language: Why You Should Stop Saying Gay, Rape and Retarded in Everyday Conversation Kimberly Tan July 21, 2014 6 Comments “That’s so gay.” “I got raped by that final.” “You’re so retarded.” These are words I often hear around campus exchanged between friends, either to evoke a few laughs or simply to fit... Read More »
Bridging the Civil-Military Divide at Stanford Kimberly Tan March 10, 2014 1 Comment Last quarter, I was casually chatting with a freshman student when he remarked: "Wait, you know I'm 24, right?" I didn't. But apparently, while I had been studying math and English in Silicon Valley,... Read More »
Feminism and the Goal of Obsolescence Kimberly Tan February 23, 2014 20 Comments I once asked my friend if she was a feminist. Her response: Of course not. Why not? Feminism, by its strict dictionary definition, is simply the idea of guaranteed equality between men and women —... Read More »
Levitt balances research, family, advising to win Nobel Kimberly Tan October 25, 2013 1 Comment According to Michael Levitt, the last prize he won was in 1986 — the last prize, that is, before he won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry “for the development of multiscale models for complex... Read More »
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