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Who says college students these days are too busy looking at their cellphones to embrace activism? Maritza Rico and Audrey Parry challenge the notion of the passive millennial with their podcast, Murder Weather, a platform for dialogue, getting involved and making a difference. By Lucy Yeho Hwang
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The Social Climber
With the addition of rock climbing to the lineup for the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, the sport has risen beyond a weekend adventure or lifelong hobby. Brooklyn Boulders offers visitors a chance to scale heights of up to 28 feet on half an acre of climbing surface. For some, it’s just a good way to […]
The Bargain District
Monique Sinha is the owner of The Bargain District, a vintage shop located in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Having quit her former job as a Bahasa Indonesia language professor at Columbia University for this business, she hopes to bring an element of the past to the present. Hear what she has to say about running her business […]
The Manhattan Transfer
High schoolers on college tours are encouraged to find their “home”. They’re told to pick a school that they are comfortable in – a place where they feel they belong. But sometimes the place they choose turns out to be the wrong choice and they have to decide: to transfer or not to transfer? NYU transfer […]
Shattering Stereotypes With Tattoos
Tattoos are stories of their own, a permanent trace of who we are as people. Erin Shore, an NYU junior, tells us about her tattoos, their meaning and how they shape her life. By Verena Toh and Lucy Hwang https://soundcloud.com/user-78438869/tats-for-chats
Exciting Everyday: Nurses
Exciting Everyday hosts, Moira Donohue and Ryan Shoushani, discuss America’s highest paying post-college graduate profession, nursing. In an interview with NYU nursing student, Monica Lopez, shares her dreams of becoming a nurse as a small girl, her experiences in nursing school, and what may lie ahead. Produced by Moira Donohue and Ryan Shoushani
Two Companies at a Time
Kristie Karnadi, 25, juggles her time between her studies at Columbia University in New York and two companies back home in Indonesia. She founded an online marketplace for secondhand luxury goods called Hunt Street (www.huntstreet.com) and a flower catering business called The Flower Bar. By Dhika Himawan
For sale: $30,000 sofa
Ryan Shoushani takes you inside one of America’s most high end furniture stores, DDC, with an exclusive interview with Babak Hakakian one of the company partners and the design curator.
This UnAmerican Dream
This UnAmerican Dream meets NYU Tisch student-filmmaker Konstantin Lyubimov to discuss his short film “Olvidadizo,” which explores the journey of a man haunted by ghosts after the death of his daughter. Lyubimov tells us about his plans for the future and the challenges and rewards of seeing a project from concept to final product. By […]
The Fight Against Sex Trafficking
We all have a little bit of that “change the world” feeling inside of us. Maybe that’s why we are in college, to learn how to do so through our respective interests and career fields. The first episode of this podcast features Melissa Godin, an NYU Global Liberal Studies student who is making her mark […]