Category: Portfolio

A Conversation with my Younger Self    

I know it’s been a while, It seems like we’re playing phone tag. I’m sorry, I’ve been so busy. Where we last left off Your favorite show was Hannah Montana And you considered chicken fingers and French fries to be the only existing foods. You tried every sport, But nothing really stuck. It never seemed […]

Anna Pomeroy '23

The Art of Stargazing

It’s half past midnight when my best friend and I make our way to the beach and settle next to each other in the sand. To me, stargazing is the antithesis of anxiety. I’ve spent hours rewriting a single sentence. As a little kid, making a birthday card was an environmental hazard. I would remake […]

Meg Brodeur '24

Tiff and Earl

Dear Tiff and Earl,  I’ve been training really hard, attempting to beat Dean Sears in the Friar 5K. Any advice to crush the best runner at PC in his own race? Sincerely,  Future Marathon Runner  Yo Future Marathon Runner,  If you want to beat Dean Sears in the Friar 5K, you have to start adding […]

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The Last of It 

My last first day of classes, My last move-in at PC, My last summer before college, Have all come and gone. They slipped right past my eyes, As I wiped away the everyday Wear and tear of my mind’s mirror. Like stained fingerprints, Ones that can only be spotted from  the glare of a certain […]

Anna Pomeroy '23

Icebreakers

“We played icebreakers—yes, hell had frozen over.” What my sister once brilliantly said in eight words, I am about to say much more clumsily in five hundred. I’ve been around the PC block a few times, three to be exact, and I consider myself an icebreaker survivor. I’ve been on countless “speed dates,” all of […]

Fiona Clarke '23

A Quick Note

Dear First-Year Providence College Student, If you are receiving this email, it is to inform you of a process you will otherwise be unfamiliar with as a new student. As I am sure you are aware, the dean of Student Affairs, , Dean Sears, is an extremely helpful, enthusiastic, and spirited member of the Providence […]

Kathryn Libertini '23

The Chasm

Trigger Warning: mentions of suicide An acidic taste stung the sores in my throat. I squinted at the nickel bolt as it retracted itself into the chipped woodwork. I watched as my mother dragged herself over the threshold to join me in the dismal, musky study. She donned a modest, unembellished frock. It was the […]

Meg Brodeur '24

7AM

It was 7am when I let you in, not expecting it all to end But it was obvious, like it came in with a marching band The chorus was filled with words we should’ve never said The ruckus echoing off the walls in my head The words hitting me till I bled “Where have you […]

Toni Rendon '24

We Are All Little Fleas

We humans are nothing more than little fleas that give Earth an annoying scratch. People have the habit of believing the world revolves around them. Their dramatics are born in their little suburban homes or in their crappy Subaru cars. Most of the time, the emotional disasters that feel like the sky is falling are […]

Taylor Maguire '24

Listomania

Worst Places To Show Your Parents On Parents Weekend Ray Guz Eaton Street  Communal bathrooms Chad Brown Street Where I failed my civ final  Radcliffe Avenue  Foxy Lady  The middle of the flame where the pee sits Suites  Any freshman male’s dorm

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