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Absent Without Leave

Students and faculty discuss how having a parent that lives abroad influences their day-to-day responsibilities and family dynamics.
Riya Iyer, Features Reporter
December 11, 2025

Filing through the stack of mail that had accumulated on her kitchen counter, Chloe Hsu ’27 stumbled upon an overdue parking ticket that her mom had forgotten to pay. She dialed the parking bureau and...

(Left to right) Chronicle Digital Managing Editor Lucas Gelfond '19, Editor-in-Chief Sophie Haber '19, Presentations Managing Editor Kendall Dees '19 and Print Managing Editor Alex Goldstein '19 sit outside of Weiler Hall on their favorite steps, where they spent hours coming up with article pitches and page concepts. Illustration by Samantha Ko

Where my peers became my teachers

Sophie Haber
March 5, 2019

Alex hung up on me, so I called Lucas. Lucas hung up on me, so I called Kendall. “Just relax,” she said. “There’s nothing to worry about. Go to sleep.” “I’m not worried,” I said. ...

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