Dear Tiff and Earl, Why are all my professors assigning work before finals? How am I supposed to complete five papers in a week? On top of all this, my computer is completely dead. What should I do? Sincerely, Mo Papers Mo Problems Hey Mo Papers Mo Problems! So, little known fact about myself…I […]
by Connor Zimmerman ’20 Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick. What would be an eternity to any onlooker is only a few seconds to him. He sits in the chair, hearing only the clock and his thoughts. Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick, Tick. He refuses to look up, to see the world around him. Only the smell […]
by Sam Ward ’21 Restless nights bear peaceful mornings, A break from fear via alarm bell warnings. That’s it, rest easy. I want to take in the moment. Slip out, brush teeth, unnoticed. Sun dips through blinds like a golden colander And days dawdling dimly, seconds lackluster. But mornings like this one are so right, […]
by Sarah Kirchner ’21 Lights lit up the City of Love. The city of Paris was alive and many people roamed the streets. A young girl stood, searching for her love under the lights of the Eiffel Tower. He told her he would meet her there at precisely eight o’clock at night. She […]
by Jessica Polanco ’20 Everyone claims you’re just as tangible As a rainbow in the sky But there’s nothing to see Just a disappointment in disguise You creep into my heart Slowly, you infect my brain I think they call you LOVE? But sitting you against royalty Would be a shame You make people literally […]
by Dawyn Henriquez ’19 The plastic body of the alarm clock rattles as it wakes for its one purpose. The green glow of 5:30 a.m. blinking sleep out of its eyes. The sharpness of its sound is only joined by the deafening buzz of the dial tone coming from the unhooked landline; its […]
Dear Tiff and Earl, I do not want to go home for Thanksgiving because I know my pesky relatives will ask what I am doing with my post-grad life this spring. Truth is I have no idea and I will probably not make it to graduation because I failed so many exams in the past […]
Reenact Charlie Brown Thanksgiving Hunt squirrels on electric scooters Go on a ghost hunting expedition in the tunnels under Howley Jump in piles of leaves Feast on Ray cold cuts Listen to Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas is You” on repeat Buy mace, in preparation for Black Friday Ball out in Peterson Play […]
by Jessica Polanco ’20 I remember being able to see nothing. It was pitch-black and all I could hear were crickets, moths buzzing near my ear, thunder and branches cracking under my feet. I was surrounded by people I had only met one month ago. We were stuck in the middle of a hiking trail […]