Sarah Shearer '12 traveled to Nepal for her semester abroad where she conducted research on maternal health. 

A few years ago, it seemed like every high schooler in America had to watch March of the Penguins, but they probably didn't think of it as “a heterosexual love story about infant survival.” According to Prof. Monica Casper, Arizona State University, the reason March of the Penguins works is because, simply put, it is about penguins.

Women’s biological clocks start ticking before birth, causing a decline in their ovarian reserve of eggs. According to a recent Scottish study, women lose 88 percent of their eggs by age 30, and by age 40, only three percent of their eggs remain. Should college girls be paying more attention to this declining fertility while making their life plans?

My father always says that when it came time for him and my mother to have kids, it was like bam, bam, bam. Pregnancy. Delivery. Three kids. Three years. And that was all there was to it.

It doesn’t seem like so long ago that pregnancy was that simple. Men and women were copulating. Embryos were being inseminated. And, nine months later, wailing children were born unto this world. Bam. Bam. Bam.