Luca Davis PZ ’27 contemplates the true purpose of note-taking, which he believes to be a vehicle for processing information — not record-keeping. He writes that notebooks and iPads alike are ill-suited for this purpose. Instead, he suggests using the starchy and yellow legal pad. It is just a stack of pages bound at the top, and as one flips through, the pages disappear.
Luca Davis
OPINION: EA policy should have a writing and rhetoric learning objective
Luca Davis PZ ‘27 is an Environmental Analysis major on the policy track who proposes a new curriculum change: a writing and rhetoric learning objective. For an interdisciplinary major at a liberal arts college, Davis thought writing would come naturally, but for a field that requires rhetorical scrutiny and articulate argumentation, the lack of intense writing has been puzzling and hindering.
OPINION: Stop hating on your classes
Luca Davis PZ ’27 writes about the importance of traversing through menial schoolwork to find what we are fiercely passionate about — but how our presumptuously negative language around classes and schoolwork obscures our path there.