Sarah Ngu

Mental Health

In order to raise awareness about mental health, three students share their experiences with depression and support.
Taking depression out by the roots
Your community deserves you whole
Healing the mind, healing the body

By Sarah Ngu, Erik Nook, and Anonymous | Nov 17 08:53 pm ET

Taking depression out by the roots

Being well means confronting one's wounds without being overwhelmed by them.

By Sarah Ngu | Nov 17 07:32 pm ET

Clubs face budget crunch after F@CU disorder

Budgets arrive late for governing boards, leaving clubs with less time than usual to plan for the year.

By Sarah Ngu | Sep 6 12:55 am ET

Safe Spaces

Thoughts on safe spaces.

By Terry Martinez, Sarah Ngu, Jennifer Alzate, J. Austin Lowe, and Editorial Board | May 8 06:10 pm ET

Be open to safe spaces

Safe spaces balance community and diversity.

By Sarah Ngu | Mar 31 10:54 pm ET

It takes two to forgive

Offering forgiveness and being forgiven are two different things.

By Sarah Ngu | Sep 19 07:47 pm ET

Everyone wants to be a martyr

There is a subtle strain of egoism even in the nonprofit industry, I believe. Deep down, as altruistic as I call myself, I want to be Somebody worthwhile.

By Sarah Ngu | Apr 14 07:22 pm ET

Active thinking—a paradox?

We enter into college, or for some of us, high school, excited about discovering truth and enriching our minds. We soon discover that we can’t agree amongst ourselves on interpretations of texts, let alone on fundamental concepts

By Sarah Ngu | Feb 14 08:45 pm ET

Get some (Core) class

All Columbia undergraduates have to take them—the required classes that constitute our early years. But do they go on to constitute part of us? This week, four students assess the foundations of our education. Jennifer Fearon examines what it means to re-read classics in Barnard’s First-Year English, Joseph Rozenshtein writes off University Writing, Sarah Ngu suggests it simply needs a few edits, and Neil Fitzpatrick merges the practical and the pedantic in his position on Literature Humanities.

By Sarah Ngu, Jennifer Fearon, Joseph Rozenshtein, and Neil FitzPatrick | Nov 15 10:45 pm ET

Reflections on University Writing

The sphere of academic writing encompasses much more than the literary sphere of novels and poems, which is what essay-writing is generally confined to in high school.

By Sarah Ngu | Nov 15 06:12 pm ET

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