Dear Tiff and Earl, Rumor has it that Jack Harlow is performing at Late Night Madness this year. How do I secure front row seats, and how do I also secure Jack Harlow? Sincerely, Jack Harlow’s (Industry) Baby Dear Jack Harlow’s Baby, Step one: purchase a ticket and a grappling hook. Step two: research as […]
Weirdest Reasons People Get Fined Breaking a ceiling tile (and bringing it outside for some reason) Pulling the fire alarm as a social experiment Opening the emergency door to throw out a beer bottle Opening the emergency door to sneak friends in Breaking the dryer door Stealing a COVID sign Breaking into the telephone and […]
by Anna Pomeroy ’23 I never liked hearing the truth. It always scared me because I would fear the worst As the words slipped out of their mouths With no point of return. At age four, it was a struggle For my parents to tell me they were getting a divorce. Sitting me […]
by Taylor Maguire ’24 Snow wrapped Manhattan in a thick blanket of white. Floating flakes latched onto my brown coat as I walked across the street to Fifth Avenue. The coat belonged to my Aunt Esma whose unique eye color I inherited. Walker, a ghost from my past, once described my eyes as the […]
by Mariela Flores ’23 Content Warning: this piece contains content that could be triggering regarding eating disorders and body image. She called me llenita. Those words poked at my round belly, her eyes threw daggers into the soft flesh of my cheeks, her hands pinched my sides, as if she were trying to rip off […]
by Kate Ward ’23 The ice creaked and groaned, my pickaxe clanking dully against the ice. I could barely make out the animal we were meant to be digging out from the ice. The museum needed it by morning, an impossible deadline. I looked at my coworkers who were shivering and trying to coax […]
by Grace O’Connor ’22 Being patient makes her head spin and her nausea take over. Being patient makes her feel like she is locked in a small space, With the walls closing in on her, darkness preparing to give her a suffocating hug. Being patient leaves marks on her skin of irritation and […]
Most interesting stickers I’ve seen on campus Bo Burnham quotes Stickers from bananas Father Shanley’s face Huxley The “Berries and Cream” guy The ones they gave out during orientation week B.O.P. stickers on people’s laptops who aren’t in B.O.P. A singular wooden spoon Apple logo stickers on MacBooks Stickers from hometowns/states Faded involvement fair stickers […]
by Toni Rendon ’24 Why can’t life be more like The Sims Where no matter what day it is, we can always win Strangers come over to celebrate your birthday And people can empathize with you on your worst days Let’s build our home from the ground up A place where happiness can […]
by AJ Worsley ’22 happier when i’m away, i do my best to keep a distance. all i hope for is that while i’m away you forget my existence. if that were to happen, i’d have no reason to return, you don’t know what you have until it’s gone, a lesson you’ve yet […]