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At a college like Amherst, it is easy to follow the beaten path. The trail markers that guide most students are getting good grades, securing an internship that might lead to a job and maybe being lauded along the way. But to succeed in those things, and also to dedicate

“Never stop advocating for other people, caring for other people, and trying to make this campus a better place,” said David Rosa ’21 as advice to underclassmen at Amherst before we finished our conversation. This also encapsulates how he leads his own life. Our hour-long conversation made it obvious how

“Never stop advocating for other people, caring for other people, and trying to make this campus a better place,” said David Rosa ’21 as advice to underclassmen at Amherst before we finished our conversation. This also encapsulates how he leads his own life. Our hour-long conversation made it obvious how

A movie aficionado, frog figurine collector and demography enthusiast, Cy Nguyen ’21 is not your typical Amherst student. A Vietnamese American transfer from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), Nguyen only spent two years of her college career at Amherst. But looking at all she has pursued and achieved

A movie aficionado, frog figurine collector and demography enthusiast, Cy Nguyen ’21 is not your typical Amherst student. A Vietnamese American transfer from the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), Nguyen only spent two years of her college career at Amherst. But looking at all she has pursued and achieved

As she walked the halls of her deeply segregated Colorado high school, Margot Lurie ’21 saw injustice everywhere she looked. The structural inequalities of American society were lived out each day in school, where only a few would go on to attend four-year colleges and the limited resources were filtered