Category: Creative Non-Fiction

I Forgot to Write my Cowl Article for this Week

Aidan Lerner ’22   I forgot to write my Cowl article for this week. Today is Sunday, and I am a little panicked. I pride myself on my ability to be responsible and to come through for the people who rely on me, whether it be in work or school. That is why I am […]

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Trojan Horse

Taylor Maguire ’24   It was April in New York. There was that weird uneasiness in the air that made your skin itch. All anyone could say was that “it is absolutely gorgeous outside,” yet the weather almost seemed too good to be true.   “I don’t know, I just have a bad feeling about today,” […]

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Beer Ye, Beer Ye

by Fiona Clarke ’23 I am having doubts about feminism.  My concern is that when women rise to power, beer will lose its place in our society. One of the saddest realizations I have had in my time at Providence College is that most girls don’t like beer. I suppose I should offer a disclaimer […]

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Yellow

Marelle Hipolito ’22   So dull was the class today that I drew a house. It had a white picket fence. The grass was green and the flowers radiated life. It had five windows, four squares in between maroon brick walls, and one circle inviting a peak of sunlight into the second floor. My pen […]

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What a Piece of Work is Man

by Fiona Clarke ’23 In the summer of 2011, as our house in Michigan was compressed into cardboard boxes and plastic bins, sorted and taped and stacked and chucked into a truck, my sister and I, with great care, selected and packed up a box of our favorite movies to keep with us while we […]

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Thankful: A DWC Paper 

By: Aidan Lerner ’22 Since the beginning of time when the first man evolved from clay or fish or from apes, there has been higher education (I would assume). Aidan Lerner ’22 is a current student at Providence College who thinks positively about his experience. Lerner is a finance major, a writing minor, and a […]

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You Have OCD and Not the One Where You Clean a Bunch of Stuff

by Aidan Lerner ’22   “There’s poison in your glass.”  You want a glass of water. You go get a glass, right? You go to the cabinet and you select a glass. Then, you inspect it carefully. You are looking for poison. You may ask yourself why you are doing that. Well, because your thoughts […]

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Beware the Ides of Career Fair 

  by Aidan Lerner ’22  I think the Career Fair would have been a great place to croak. I mean, kick the bucket in a dramatic fashion.  I walk in there with the stylish, pressed suit my dad picked out for me. I am dressed to the nines, with perfectly styled hair and an aroma […]

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Parking Passes: But At What Cost?

by Kathryn Libertini ’23  This week, when walking through the Fennel parking lot, I witnessed a black Jeep getting towed. Behind it, a student, presumably on the phone with a fellow student, exclaimed, “Bro they’re towing my car right now, my parents are gonna kill me. What? Yeah, I had tickets. No, I didn’t pay […]

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Timeline

by Kate Ward ’23 Halfway through my freshman year of college, we were sent home on an extended spring break because of an outbreak of COVID-19 cases. Not long before we were sent home, my friends had been complaining of some sickness yet tested negative for strep and the flu. The school soon started telling […]

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