Category: Portfolio

Tiff & Earl

Dear Tiff and Earl, I’ve barely been on campus a week and I’m already feeling homesick. How can I make PC feel like home?  Sincerely,  Flown the Coop   Hi Flown the Coop, Moving into college is a big transition, but there are a few things you can do to make campus feel more like […]

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Listomania: Things Orientation Leaders Say

I love “Body” by Loud Luxury There’s so much to do here besides drinking Top or Bottom? Friar Family We are going to do an icebreaker Ray just makes you get creative There’s more to PC than Eaton Street Say a fun fact about yourself Where’s your texting buddy? It’s not a forced quad but […]

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Bittersweet

by Grace O’Connor ’22 Smooth and sweet, the chocolate rolls around my tongue I see happiness and sunlight The warmness that makes me feel young As the little pieces of sugar melt on my tongue I run through the grass with glee Smelling the fresh flowers My long hair being whipped by the wind I […]

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An Ode to Math

by Sarah Heavren ’21 O Math, you are so much more Than a subject students deplore. O Math, though done in pencil, You are truly transcendental. Some think it’s numbers and tests, But they don’t get to see the rest Of the wonder you possess As, through nature, you manifest. Some don’t give an equation, […]

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7 Ways to View a Daffodil

by Gabriela Baron ’20 1. The vivid skirts of dancers Swaying and twirling in the wind 2. A morning star Bursting like fireworks in the gloomy sky 3. The pure happiness of a child Its petals spreading out into a grin 4. Midas’ fingers A golden touch radiating prosperity 5. A sprout from the earth […]

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The Last Day on Earth

by Connor Zimmerman ’20 A shooting ray of sunshine runs across the pitch-black void surrounding it. The cold and lifeless void tries to smother the ray, but it continues to travel faster than anyone can comprehend. It races towards our atmosphere, hurling itself through the sky. It sees a lowly, decrepit house and finds its […]

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Reflecting

by Sarah Heavren ’21 Looking back, I wonder About the year I lived With every blunder. Did I have more to give? Looking back, I question Whether I did enough. In joy and depression Did I do the right stuff? Looking back, I ponder Some choices that I made. All the time I squandered Was […]

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You Want It, You Got It

by Dawyn Henriquez ’19 She was never the quiet type. Her voice was always the one booming through the jams at parties, the one to say hello as though you were a football field away when you were only a couple feet from her, the one who needed to be told that she was yelling […]

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Tincture

by Julia Zygiel ’19 My head is buried in my folded arms as my heart hammers in my chest. My nose presses uncomfortably into the desk, but this is the only tried and true method for hiding the cloud of piss yellow panic that’s trying to suffocate me. I pull the hood of my sweatshirt […]

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The Typical Town

by Sarah Kirchner ’21 The night sky looked typical tonight, With those stars that appear to always be falling down. The stars that represented the thousands of lights in a town, The town that I constantly tried to ignore. They say that this is normal And that “normal” was the life I was meant to […]

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