Dear Tiff and Earl, I was walking around campus today, and I can’t help but notice the fat squirrel from the fall is missing. I need to know if he survived the winter…any ideas as to where he is? Sincerely, Squirrel Enthusiast Dear squirrel enthusiast, I ate him. Tiff Dear Squirrel Enthusiast, I have it […]
Aidan Lerner ’22 Bringggg. Bringggg. Bringggg. As a unit, over eight hundred kids arose and walked toward the wing of classrooms. The full mass of the entire student body was not something which Eddie had ever taken for granted, given his claustrophobic instincts and fear of crowds. But on the list of triggering things in […]
by Nicole Patano ’22 Past the student center she walks, a ringing in her ears. Her name is spoken in whispers by the boys she met last year. The ones who took the chance to kiss her and then left her alone to cry silent tears. Beyond their voices, another sound, steady as […]
Fiona Clarke ’23 Welcome back to “Stupid Things People Say.” This week, our topic is “Living in the State of the Obvious (And Why You Should Immigrate).” A few years ago, I was minding my own business at soccer practice, surrounded by a gaggle of chirping teenage girls, waiting in line for my turn […]
Toni Rendon ’24 Here I am standing on a hill Not at the top Just here on the hill Made up of the bodies of the kings I’ve killed Their blood trickles onto the ground Barely making a sound and washing my past in red Their crowns’ weight bowing my head Suffocating the […]
Marelle Hipolito ’22 There is wet sand stuck in my wet hair. There is wet sand stuck in my sweatshirt, and in between my toes, but I don’t care. I’m busy looking up at the night sky with you, rooting for a shooting star. Not many things have been going our way. Life […]
Book Review: One Second After The Power of History in the Absence of Electrical Power Madison Palmieri ’22 While some apocalyptic fiction novels are set in a near, nightmarish future or one even more remote, oftentimes, the most frightening and therefore impactful works in this genre take place in the present day. William Forstchen’s One […]
Artists We Should’ve Had For Spring Concert Pitbull The Rock Will Smith (ft. Chris Rock) Machine Gun Kelly Frank Sinatra (hologram version) Macklemore Doja Cat Kanye West (featuring Skeet) Travis Scott Dr. Taylor Swift Shawn Mendes (post breakup tour?) Rihanna (post hiatus tour?) Ed Sheeren My Chemical Romance Big Time Rush (without Dixie D’Amelio) (sans […]
Family Loyalty and Medical Ethics A Review of My Sister’s Keeper by Jodi Picoult Tully Mahoney ’23 My Sister’s Keeper, by Jodi Picoult, is an all-consuming, heart-wrenching novel about Kate, a girl diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia at two years old, and her sister Anna, who was born to be Kate’s organ donor. […]
Dear Tiff and Earl, I caught my crush and best friend making out in the broom closet at Black and White Ball this weekend. How do I emotionally recover? Insincerely, Heartbroken :( Dear Heartbroken, I must confess that your story, like a middle-aged man with Santa at the mall, does not sit right with me. […]