THE STUDENT PAPER
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Arnheiður Björnsdóttir
Auður Helgadóttir
Gabrielė Šatrauskaitė
Maicol Cipriani
Sam Patrick O'Donnell
Unnur Gígja Ingimundardóttir
Ávarp Ritstjóra
Hólmfríður María Bjarnardóttir ÞÝÐING TRANSLATION Julie Summers MYND PHOTO Kata Jóhanness
Editor's Address Hvað ber framtíðin í skauti sér? er spurning sem við veltum öll fyrir okk ur af og til. Sumir meira en aðrir en hún virðist þó alltaf birtast í einhverju formi. Hvort sem það er frænka í fermingarveislu sem spyr hvað þú sért að gera í lífinu og hver séu næstu skref, vangaveltur með maka eða vinum um framtíðina eða einfaldlega bíómynd sem fær þig til að hugsa. Þema þessa blaðs er framtíðin, í öllum sínum formum, hlykkjum og
Alina Maurer
Armando Garcia T.
Helgi James Price
Katla Ársælsdóttir
What does the future hold? It’s a question we all ask ourselves from time to time, some more than others, but it always seems to crop up in some form. Maybe you ran into your aunt at a confirmation party and she asked what you’re doing with your life and what your next steps are, maybe you’ve been pondering the future with your partner or friends, or maybe you just saw a movie that got you thinking. This issue’s theme is the future, with its multitude of manifestations, twists and turns, and simplicity. My questions about the future are constantly changing. I think about where I’ll be in 5, 10, or 40 years, what I’ll be doing, where I’ll be living, what relationships will have lasted and whether there will be some new faces in my life. I wonder what the state of the world will be in relation to the environment, the publishing industry, agriculture, politics, education, and the list goes on. We have entered into a new year, 2021. Pretty soon we’ll remember to write “2021” instead of “2020” when we have to scribble down the date for whatever reason. Many people imagined that the new year would be a new beginning, that the New Year’s fireworks could somehow drive the virus away, but we must still take care. The year did indeed start with a bang, but not the way we expected; by now everyone has surely heard how the cold water main in Vesturbær burst, flooding several university buildings with a swimming pool’s worth of water. Campus facilities suffered signifi-
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