Eli ('23) is a senior from Noblesville, Indiana currently working as a Co-Editor-in-Chief for the Anchor. He is a psychology major with minors in classics and writing. In addition to working at the Anchor he is a writing assistant at the Klooster Center for Excellence in Writing and the SARD of Cook Hall. After his time at Hope, he plans to further his education and become a therapist.
Elon Musk buying Twitter is like if the least funny person you know started running a comedy club. Elon Musk buying Twitter is like when your friend’s rich dad tells you “John Wick” is the greatest movie of all time. Elon Musk buying Twitter is like “CODA” winning Best Picture. I’ve thought about tweeting all…
A year and a half ago I wrote a piece for a Creative Writing: Nonfiction class about the internet and how it’s changed the way we live. In my pre-writing work for this article, I revisited Sophomore Eli’s writing, and, like my old piece prophesied, the piece was out of date. “Even to speak about…
If you’ve had an in-person conversation with me in the last couple weeks, you know that I recently watched Addison Rae’s hit Netflix movie “He’s All That.” My initial reaction to this film was simple: culture is dead. We took culture, and we killed it. Every five minutes I had to close my eyes, repeatedly…
Aficionados of Relient K will recognize my headline from their classic song “The Best Thing.” They will also most likely know that the next lyric in that song goes, “but now you’re here / almost as if to solve them.” While these lines, in many ways, represent the way I feel when I think about…
Over the course of my academic year as the Opinion section editor, there have been a few times where I have an opinion that either doesn’t quite qualify for a full article, or it isn’t an extremely original thought, but I would like to publish nonetheless. Since I’ll be moving positions here on The Anchor…
If you’ve read a young adult (YA) dystopian or fantasy novel in the last ten or so years, you have more than likely also gone to a movie theater to see that novel adapted to the silver screen. There are countless examples: “The Maze Runner,” “The Hunger Games,” “Divergent,” “Harry Potter” (and that’s just the…
For the past week or so, I’ve been staring at a sticky note on my desk that says, “Call CAPS for ADHD testing.” I have not done that yet. This lack of action may be a manifestation of behaviors that I believe could be a result of having ADHD. Let me explain. Over winter break…
An interesting trend I noticed in the early days of COVID-19 life in America (March of 2020) was an emphasis on how to use your time. Some were preaching that “we should be using this time to be productive. [Insert author here] wrote their literary masterpiece in social isolation.” I was being told that this…
Hope College, it is good to be back. It is good to be back in my hammock in the Pine Grove, praying that the squirrel on this tree does not crawl from its humble abode and down into my temporary resting place. It is good to be back in Holland, Michigan, the only place in…
Let me just start with a very important disclaimer: the world that we are finding ourselves in right now is exceptionally ludicrous. The world was already naturally unpredictable, chaotic and sometimes daunting. College students lived in a world of political division, academic responsibilities, relational obligations, extracurriculars and somehow finding the time amidst all of that…