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Stern Spotlight

By Deirdre Keane

The Oppy staff is proud to continue its feature, “Stern Somebody”, where we have the opportunity to tell the stories of our remarkable classmates and how they became the exceptional people they are today. In this issue, it is our pleasure to present Alana Levy....

Stern Singles Presents: Chris Surot

Stern Singles Presents: Chris Surot

By Conor Clark

Happy Holidays Sternies, welcome back to another edition of Stern Singles, and WOW do I have a stocking stuffer for you. It is my pleasure to present you with Stern’s most eligible bachelor, Chris Surot. Sternie Testimonials: "My guy Chris is a studly and vivacious...

Stern Singles Presents: Hayley Wilcox

Stern Singles Presents: Hayley Wilcox

By Phuong Tran

Welcome back to another addition of Stern Singles. We are excited to introduce you all to another Stern eligible bachelorette, Hayley Wilcox! Sternie testimonials: H - ot A - uthentic Y - es girl L - oving E - xtremely fun Y - ou should...

Stern Somebody Presents: Jeanna Smialek

Stern Somebody Presents: Jeanna Smialek

By Sanjna Shukla

Running between the Classroom and the Newsroom Jeanna Smialek is a part-time Stern student and a full-time Federal Reserve and Economics Reporter for the New York Times. In between balancing school, articles and her upcoming book, she made time to sit down with The Oppy...

Stern Singles Presents: Patton Chandler

Stern Singles Presents: Patton Chandler

By Phuong Tran

Welcome back to another addition of Stern Singles. We are excited to introduce you all to another Stern eligible bachelor, Patton Chandler! A musical theater, college football, and all things fried loving southern boy looking for love!! Patton grew up in Huntsville, Ala., home of...

Virtual

Students give thanks to essential Stern staff

Students give thanks to essential Stern staff

By Stern Student Government

https://vimeo.com/490038590 As our student body looks back on this year, and the myriad of challenges that the Stern community has overcome in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, we wanted to acknowledge those who have done so much to keep us safe and healthy in the Stern building itself. Without the hard work and commitment of the...

Tackling the lottery with numbers on your side

Tackling the lottery with numbers on your side

By Oppy Staff

By: Ben Sellitto Ben Sellitto is a second-year Langone student and employee at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), where he has worked since 2016. Ben enjoys brewery hopping, eating anything that is fried, and ballin’ on a budget. Course selection is always a stressful and daunting task, where...

SGov Social Distanced Fall Events Recap

SGov Social Distanced Fall Events Recap

By Stern Student Government

By Kaori Yamaguchi Stern Safari (Zoo) : On November 20th and 21st, 36 Stern students went on an adventure to the Bronx Zoo. There were 30 minute private sessions with an animal of their choice: sloth, penguins, giraffes, fennec fox, or 3-4 surprise animals based...

Skill responsible for 50% of your success at a consulting case interview

Skill responsible for 50% of your success at a consulting case interview

By Oppy Staff

By Peter K Creating a solid opening structure for a case is part of the basics despite regular hype around it. Strong brainstorming and math are also just fundamental skills, not exceptional. If you are great at frameworks, ideation, and calcs, you will just match...

OppySpotlight: Jamie Bruno & Urban Agriculture Cooperative

OppySpotlight: Jamie Bruno & Urban Agriculture Cooperative

By Teresa Bruno on December 13, 2020

The Oppy’s Spotlight Series exposes Sternies to writers, artists, and causes outside of our typical professional networks. This month’s article highlights Jamie Bruno, co-founder and Program Director of the Urban Agriculture Cooperative (UAC) based in Newark, NJ.

Jamie has worked in urban agriculture in Newark for the last eight years with various nonprofits. Outside of the UAC, Jamie is an Artist and Data Analyst. She served the Greater Newark Conservancy as their first Foodcorps Service Member between 2014-2015. In 2017, Jamie helped to develop creative messaging for green infrastructure and environmental education projects as a Resident Artist with Lower Raritan Watershed Partnership and coLAB Arts in New Brunswick, NJ under a National Endowment for the Arts Grant.…

The Graduate: Vanessa O’Brien

The Graduate: Vanessa O’Brien

By Teresa Bruno on December 11, 2020

There cannot be failure unless one gives up – I know that for certain. – Vanessa O’Brien

This month’s edition of “The Graduate” features Vanessa O’Brien (‘97), a British-American mountaineer, explorer, author and (of course) notable Stern grad! Among Vanessa’s many achievements, she set a Guinness World Record by becoming the first woman to reach the Earth’s highest (Mt. Everest 8,848m) and lowest (Challenger Deep 10,925m) points. Vanessa is the first American or British woman to successfully summit K2, the world’s second-tallest mountain, has summited the highest peaks on every continent (the Seven Summits) in a 295 day span, and has skied the last degree to the north and south poles in 11 months (Explorers Grand Slam). Her…

Dear Oppy: December 2020

Dear Oppy: December 2020

By Oppy Staff on December 11, 2020

We are proud to continue our agony advice column, Dear Oppy: B-School Advice for the Everyday Sternie.

Oppy can be quite Stern at times but is here to answer the queries and qualms of all MBA students so send them his/her way at oppy@stern.nyu.edu.

Dear Oppy,

There is this guy in my 6:30pm branding class and I can’t even figure out what block he’s in. He’s super weird; always in a suit or biz casual, and I’m pretty sure recruiting is done. He’s impossible to schedule group meetings with, refuses to meet during the day, and barely even contributes to the GroupMe banter.…

Quarantined Down Under

Quarantined Down Under

By Sanjna Shukla on December 12, 2020

According to the Australian Government Department of Health, as of December 10, Australia had just 15 daily cases of COVID. 15. In the whole country. The country currently has a strict policy of no visitors, and Australian citizens must complete their 14-day quarantine in a hotel upon entry. I have seen a number of articles and videos online about people’s quarantine experiences and subsequent return to normal life after the 14 days. Because of the low number of cases in Australia, normal is not the “new normal” we’ve gotten used to in the city, but actually the old normal that seems to be in the very distant past.…

Letter from the Editor: December 2020

By Deirdre Keane on December 12, 2020

The Oppy Editorial Board is proud to introduce its newly-formatted newsletter with this issue (Thanks to Phuong Tran, our AVP of Technology!). Less text-heavy emails and more pictures makes the email easier to skim before deleting. 🙂

We are only days away from finals being over and, therefore, the end of the semester. Why not enjoy these articles during study breaks?

SGov tells us about the socially-distanced events they hosted this semester. Ben Sellitto, a Langone student, shares a pretty impressive model he created to help in course selection. Owen Lee, our B-School beekeeper, shares how he got into his unusual hobby.…

Voices

A Rapper and a Businessperson Walk Into a Bar: How Warren Buffett and Drake are on the Same Wavelength

A Rapper and a Businessperson Walk Into a Bar: How Warren Buffett and Drake are on the Same Wavelength

By Kit Miller

Rappers catch a lot of flack. They’re misogynistic, violent, and [insert demeaning adjective masked in racial overtones here] … yeah, I said it! But what we don’t hear often is how wise some rappers can be. If you take a moment to assess their lyrics,...

Give Back

Give Back

By Teresa Bruno

The end of the year is a time of reflection. This year, especially, we have a lot to reflect on. At the risk of stating the obvious, here are some issues which come to mind: the ongoing effects of the pandemic, responding to social justice...

Micro-lessons for your family’s not-so-micro holiday aggressions

Micro-lessons for your family’s not-so-micro holiday aggressions

By Mattia Janigro

No number of vaccine tweets can stop the inevitable: we’ll be riding out 2020 in a pandemic. And now, in early December, the cruel and unusual twists of COVID-19 are on a crash course with more routine holiday traditions: cooked birds, kitschy gifts, and squabbling...

White Fragility

White Fragility

By Deirdre Keane

To continue The Oppy’s active discussion on racism and white privilege, I wanted to focus on the concept of “white fragility” in this issue, from the perspective of a white female, and how it slows meaningful discussions, prevents our understanding of POC’s (people of color)...

The Coming of the DevitoGate

The Coming of the DevitoGate

By David Kammiel

On a hot summer day in June, my partner Tess was on the phone while I was downstairs in the basement (what I call my “command center”), still working as we approached the end of the day. Astoundingly calm, I could hear Tess ask her...

Stern Hobbies: Hive Talkin’

Stern Hobbies: Hive Talkin’

By David Kalan

As part of our new “Stern Hobbies” series, The Oppy is taking a look at off-the-beaten-path interests among some of our classmates at Stern. If you have a hobby you would like to write or be interviewed about, please e-mail the Oppy at oppy@stern.nyu.edu. Today’s...