As freshman year is rapidly approaching its curtain call, I find myself in an increasingly retrospective frame of mind each day. My hours of abstruse musings have led me to believe that if we look clearly, there are patterns of recurrence and replication everywhere such that when we stand at the threshold of an ending year, we can say we have come full circle.

This past Saturday, I saw the play “Madre de Migrantes,” which explores the scenario of having an armed teacher in a classroom. After a stimulating discussion with the playwright and actors, I was still struggling to define classroom diversity.

Next year, I’ll be teaching 8th Grade Algebra in Weslaco, Texas as a Teach For America corps member. For the handful of you who don’t know where Weslaco is, it’s located on the U.S.-Mexico border, about 50 miles inland from the Gulf of Mexico.

This is the story of how I decided to take my talents to south Texas (to borrow a turn of phrase from Lebron). 

Last week, the Supreme Court heard arguments in two cases involving same-sex marriage. One of these cases, Hollingsworth v. Perry, asks the Court to decide whether the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits Californians from amending their state constitution to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman.

This week, my friend and fellow Sun columnist David Fischer ’15 wrote about technology’s prominent role in his requisite procrastination routine.

Last week my dad asked me to do a “big favor” for him and speak to a friend’s son, David, who had just been accepted to Cornell but was deciding between a few schools.

With the legalization of marijuana in Colorado and Washington last November and the popularity of the television series Breaking Bad, it seems like America’s “War on Drugs” is nearing its end. So naturally, there must be a replacement. Over the past couple of years, it has become increasingly apparent on what this war will be waged.

Exactly six months ago, a headline in the Daily Sun read, as “Collegetown Housing Rush Intensifies, Students Sleep Outside Rental Agency.” The cause, of course, was not trying to relive the glory days of camping for hockey tickets, a practice that