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Okay, so here it goes — my last article for this publication. It’s really weird for me to think that I’ve been part of The KAIST Herald for four years now. Over those four years, I’m happy I got the chance to make some friends along the way. I’m thankful that I got to write about some of the things
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Berhane Weldegebriel Senior Staff Reporter
2022.12.08 13:46
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While browsing through some old hard drives, I recently came across a collection of old home videos that my parents had filmed in the mid-2000s. Hours of footage that I thought were lost to the past decade; faint memories that I now realize made me into who I am now. Most of them depicted a candid w
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Jun Seong Kim Staff Reporter
2022.11.17 23:11
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“Thankfully, the human mind is a squishy little thing — you can trick and mold it to your desire.” So went one of the earlier articles in June's issue of The KAIST Herald in the context of overcoming mental struggles and issues. But it is nonetheless important to highlight that the human mind is jus
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Andrei Kim Staff Reporter
2022.11.17 23:11
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On the night of October 29, following the lifting of the mask mandate for the first time in three years, about 100,000 people gathered in Itaewon for the much anticipated Halloween celebrations. The excitement came to a close by 10 p.m., when an uncontrolled crowd crush broke out in a narrow, steep
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Kyu-Ri Kim Junior Staff Reporter
2022.11.17 23:11
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Picture this — it is a normal Tuesday afternoon. You just came back from lunch with your coworkers to the office, ready to work on a task your boss specifically asked you to take care of by the end of the work day. After putting a couple of hours into the project, you realize that it would take you
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Fuad Samadov Staff Reporter
2022.10.14 13:18
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Last month’s article on cancel culture remarked on the freedom we as individuals have to speak out for differences in opinions. As an extension to this, the issue of cancel culture on an online platform is more complex, and it seems important to question, analyze, and perhaps reconsider the purpose
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Andrei Kim Staff Reporter
2022.10.14 13:18
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Whenever I find myself struggling to fall asleep late at night, I tend to turn to YouTube and its depthless library of entertainment. Ranging from investigative journalism to fanfictions of the most obscure TV shows, the algorithm knows what will keep our eyes glued to the screen. One such genre tha
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Benedict Fabia Head of Society Division
2022.10.14 13:18
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“Quiet quitting” has been the new trend, particularly among young adults on social media. Described as the “antidote to hustle culture,” the movement rose as a repercussion of burnout during the COVID-19 pandemic.But what exactly does quiet quitting look like and what are quiet quitters’ real attitu
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Mira Dhingra Junior Staff Reporter
2022.10.14 10:37
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For the past few years, there have been numerous trending posts and articles about the economic crisis faced by millennials and younger generations. It seems that young adults in their working age find it increasingly difficult to reach the level of lifestyle of their predecessors. Some simple achie
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Andrei Kim Staff Reporter
2022.09.25 22:43
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Cancel culture is perhaps one of the most used — and abused — terms in contemporary times. By definition, to cancel someone is “to withdraw one's support for (someone, such as a celebrity, or something, such as a company) publicly and especially on social media”. Cancel culture started from calling
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Sean Tristan De Guzman Senior Staff Reporter
2022.09.25 22:43
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I never would have imagined my life would turn out the way it has so far. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a pilot; unfortunately, I soon realized that I had a crippling fear of heights. After that, I thought I wanted to be a lawyer. I joined debate competitions in middle school and found quite a lo
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Benedict Fabia Head of Society Division
2022.09.25 22:43
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To whom it may concern,As I write this letter, I look back on the (almost) four years I spent in this institute — how I landed in Korea as a first-time international student, how I cried upon receiving an A- in a subject I thought I excelled at, and how I told everyone to read my first published Her
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Chrysan Angela Head of Society Division
2022.06.14 00:20
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Twitter is the social media equivalent of a gas station’s bathroom wall: it might keep you entertained for a bit — heck you can even partake in the “shitposting” too — but if you stay there long enough, it sure is going to stink. It’s a place filled with people who would happily feud with a complete
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Berhane Weldegebriel Staff Reporter
2022.06.14 00:20
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As a follow-up to last month’s article on the importance of developing healthy coping techniques in moments of stress, The KAIST Herald visited the Stress Clinic at KAIST Clinic Pappalardo Center and anonymously interviewed students who received help from Pappalardo. For those who found themselves r
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Andrei Kim Staff Reporter
2022.06.14 00:20
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“How do you speak English so well?” others often ask me. My answer, in a half-joking manner, would always be, “Colonialism.” Which, when you think about it, is not too far from the truth.Every June 12, my country, the Philippines, celebrates its annual Independence Day in honor of the day we first d
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Cris Jericho Goh Cruz Staff Reporter
2022.06.13 22:25
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It does not take long to convince the average person of the bad side of corporate — capitalism, greedy power-tripping elites, illegal labor, you name it. For STEM students and researchers, there is basically only one alternative career: academia. Compared to its industry counterpart, working in acad
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Chrysan Angela Head of Society Division
2022.05.23 21:56
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We are all guilty of whataboutism. It happens so frequently that it’s no exaggeration to say it is almost encoded in our genome — no less than our animal instincts. From a young age, siblings use it to avoid chores or punishment. “Why do I have to wash the dishes today? You didn’t help set the plate
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Berhane Weldegebriel Staff Reporter
2022.05.23 21:56
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“Mental health”, “mindset”, “self-talk”, … “coping”. These terms are used more and more frequently these days than in the age of our grandparents, who typically suggest that it's the fault of our phones that we are suffering from low self-esteem and a fairly negative outlook towards life. But if we
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Andrei Kim Staff Reporter
2022.05.23 21:56
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Many of us have heard the words “blockchain” and “mining” used in the context of earning Bitcoin (or any other cryptocurrency) at the so-called “crypto farms”. For some, the definitions were enough to grasp the basic idea and start mining themselves, but for many, the idea is still foreign. Sadly, t
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Andrei Kim Staff Reporter
2022.04.14 01:00
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Everyone has heard of Photoshop, and there’s a reason why it is so popular. Given superior flexibility, photo editors turn into magic wands in the hands of not only professionals, but also amateurs and newbies. Such software is capable of working visual wonders — from creating abstract art to buildi
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Fuad Samadov Junior Staff Reporter
2022.04.14 01:00