Archives - An Nguyen
annoying moment
UR Snapshots Vol. 3: Meliora Weekend
I was biking on campus on Friday and nearly got run over by a golf cart.
storytelling
Memory Palace Live: Storytelling at its most intimate
When I was around 8 or 9, a college student who frequented our house told me to listen to my…
dining services
The Late Night crunch: Why Late Night moved to the Pit
“Stop hitting on me for favors. Stop rudely checking me out at work. Stop disrespecting me and the other student workers,” Bowen wrote.
advice
UR Snapshots Vol. 2: The First-Years
“I’ve recently received the advice not to use AP credits in all the classes that I can, and I did not follow any of it.”
Rochester Life
Exploring the Roc: Hidden gems on the Orange Line
Hello new students! Welcome to Rochester. This city will be your home for more-or-less four years, so you may want…
Teen Jobs
UR Snapshots Vol. 1: The Professors
Your professor's most memorable job? "Beyond the poison, it wasn’t a bad gig,” Prof. Memmott said.
Gay Liberation Front
From the Archives: Larry Fine and the Empty Closet
“On the last day of Passover, I met, for the first time, a person who was openly gay,” Fine wrote. “As the sun set on that Jewish holiday of freedom, I set down a ten-year burden and was set free.”
drugs
From the Archives: UR’s Gates gave morphine its structure
Marshall Gates Jr., a renowned UR chemist, described his morphine synthesis as “by a considerable margin the best and most important work I’ve ever done.”
TedxUniverstityofRochester
Nat Geo explorer delivers critique against travel influencers
“What influencers have done is to take the whole world and remap it into whatever is #instagrammable and toss the rest,” Evans said.
Humanities
Hands off humanities majors
Aren’t we all striving for the same thing here — a way to understand our world?
