Matthew Benusa

Class of 2021

Articles

  • Ad Astra review

    Ad Astra is in much the same vein as the other recent, hyperreal, science fiction features about a near-future world with just a hint of dystopia: Gravity, Interstellar, and The Martian. Much like these others, our main character (Brad Pitt) travels to the far reaches of the galaxy to find out just how much he loves the Earth. As a whole, the movie is a generally successful work, that hits...

    Pillbox | September 30, 2019
  • CMU football at MIT

    On Saturday, the Carnegie Mellon football team traveled to Cambridge, MA to play the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in their first regular-season matchup. The final score of the game was 24–7 for the Tartans.

    Sports | September 9, 2019
  • Fall CMU sports

    Over the past two weeks, the fall season for Tartan sports has kicked into gear. Cross country, soccer, and women’s volleyball have all had matches in the two weeks since the start of the new semester.

    Sports | September 9, 2019
  • penalty shouts: Randy Dobnak, the baseball Uber driver

    This is Penalty Shouts, The Tartan’s sports column inspired by the The New Yorker’s column Daily Shouts. This satire-fueled column will focus on anything and everything funny in the sports world that is deserving of our comedic attention.

    Sports | September 9, 2019
  • How to survive CMU: sports

    Even if you’ve only been on Carnegie Mellon’s campus for two days, you’ve probably been made aware that sports at Carnegie Mellon are not particularly exciting, but has anyone ever actually considered the reverse argument? That sports at our small to medium sized school are actually some of the most interesting things to watch? No, of course not. Everyone loves to bash Carnegie Mellon sports at la...

    Sports | August 19, 2019