Polina Buchak is the Senior Multimedia Editor at the Washington Square News. She is in Tandon and Tisch, following her passion in Filmmaking and Integrated Design Media. Born in Ukraine, raised in Nigeria, and educated in United Kingdom, she will never be able to answer exactly where she is from. If you are looking for her, she is either running around NYC finding stories that she can turn into short movies or simply enjoying a coffee catching up with her fashion bible Vogue. Follow her projects at polinabuchak.com.
Maybe it’s the yoga. Or maybe it’s her natural serenity. But more than likely, it’s Angie Liao’s knowledge that being frazzled does nothing to advance the human rights...
On a busy day, you should consider yourself lucky if you can catch Aneesh Ashutosh, a CAS sophomore, on a midday coffee break — you’re more likely to find him in the Leslie...
For Arya Diwase, all the world’s a stage — and in her opinion, commanding the stage might be the best way to learn English.
While a freshman, Diwase fused her eloquent verbal...
René Rismondo wants to break into the boys’ club — a term used by women to reference the male domination of the baseball industry.
The gender disparity in baseball is exemplified...
On the night of the most suspenseful event in U.S. politics, SPS senior Eli Nachmany — buried amongst a sea of red hats and matching ties — screamed in celebration at President...
Swish, rinse, repeat. It all started while 15-year-old Paige Alenick was brushing her teeth.
A thought suddenly popped into her mind — not everyone in the world owns a toothbrush....
Imagine recounting the worst experiences of your life in front of huge crowds on a near-daily basis. Imagine having to answer questions about that trauma in endless interviews...
A student who has now interned at the White House and with Hillary for America once struggled to get through a book. But Ryan Thomas now excels in the classroom and serves as the...
In a Williamsburg fitness studio with “Straight Up” by Paula Abdul blaring overhead, Caitlyn Corradino encourages her students.
“Keep that energy up,” Corradino shouts...
While planning this issue, the goal was to spread the message that no matter what major you study, opportunities for great creations are endless. There are new ideas, new discoveries...
The Mark and Debra Leslie Entrepreneurs Lab, commonly known as the Leslie eLab, is an NYU space, where students and faculty can meet to develop their entrepreneurial skills and...
Ideas become inventions at the Tandon School of Engineering’s MakerSpace — a collaborative learning lab with the high-tech tools needed to let an engineer's imagination roam....
An off-road competition is on the road for NYU’s Baja Society of Automobile Engineers. The team is working on a project to create a custom vehicle to compete against other universities...
Gallatin School of Individualized Study hosted its seventh annual Gallatin Fashion Show. Ten designers and a faculty member created mini-collections inspired by power and strength.
Polina Buchak, Multimedia Editor
• February 27, 2017
There has been some debate over whether NYU's Liberal and Global Studies Programs are limiting or beneficial to students. The general consensus is that the programs have both strengths and weakness.
