Legibilus

Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter states the following: “All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.” This article, along with several judgements of the International Court of Justice such as the Nicaragua case and the case of Democratic Republic of Congo versus Uganda, sets an important principle of international law: the principle of non-intervention. According to this principle, states must not intervene in the other states' affairs unless there is a justifiable reason behind. All states' territorial integrity and political independence must be respected and any threat or use of force that tampers it shall be refrained. For example, France cannot send its own troops to Catalonia to support its secession movement since it goes against Spain's sovereignty within its ow...

The first week of my in-person semester of college was full of names. My conversations always started with “Hello! My name is Alex. What’s yours?” My name defines me and becomes the label which represents every detail about me. It contains the stories of my past and is how I am remembered.  I have two names by which others address me. My Korean name is the correct one; all official records of my existence call me Yeongseo. My Korean-speaking acquaintances know me as Yeongseo and it is how I am called most of the time. However, the unique spelling of this name and the difference in the verbal sounds used in Korean and English makes it difficult for my English-speaking friends to pronounce my name. Hence, I chose a second name: Alex. My friends in high school and college call me Alex.  Having two names, I was often asked this specific question by friends: Do you feel different when you are called Yeongseo and when you are called Alex? I have given this question plenty of though...

     The world is a complex place. And to live in this complicated space filled with novelties and surprises in every corner, each one of us adopts an eye through which one views the world. I make sense of the world through numbers. Everything I see somehow manages to enter my head as a series of numerals and I endeavor to find a certain pattern among those to understand it. So, let me introduce you to my daily interactions with numbers.       One, two, three, four, five… wait why am I counting this? This is what is typically happening inside my head as I walk up the stairs leading to my dorm room. As soon as my feet touch the first step, my brain proceeds to count the number of steps. Not only that, but I also get quite unexplainably annoyed if the number of stairs is odd.       Another example. In high school, my locker was number 257. As you may have already guessed, the first thing I noticed when I received this number was 2+5=...