Category: Portfolio

Listomania: Things We Don’t Miss About Summer Vacation

Driving Five Hours to See College Friends Broken AC Units Paying to Park at the Beach Sharing the Car with Your Siblings Spending All of Your Free Time with Your Parents Working 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for Minimum Wage Seeing Everyone You Tried to Avoid in High School Having Different Days Off Than Your […]

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It Just Happens

by Jessica Polanco ’20 Everyone dreads the feeling, But they truly never know what it feels like. It isn’t even a feeling, It’s just something that happens. When you get over an argument, You don’t even remember the exact time you did But you did. And it just happened. When something dries up, After getting […]

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Mirror

by Connor Zimmerman ’20   In a mirror, the reflection is clear. The image shows perfection. I look just how I hoped I’d appear I can’t think of any objections.              The reflection sends me back to the past To the moments when I laugh and love. All the connections […]

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Summer Changes

by Marelle Hipolito ’21 It was many summers ago Never forgotten, always remembered: gut feeling of the end coming before the snap crack and cry of pain, landing on impact an injury so defeating there was no game to play no win or lose, just over a broken bone, a broken heart impossible to put […]

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To The Ceiling

by Dawyn Henriquez ’19 “Boom, then crash The shattering of glass” Strange fruit hanging and you expect us to forget the past? Even though I saw my Momma in shackles at four, You really believe equality is an unnecessary bore? How quick to forget you are, truly, how fast. Who of you haven’t thought that […]

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Tiff & Earl

Dear Tiff and Earl, I only have $10 left on my card; how do I make it through finals week without starving? Sincerely, Will Do Things For Money   Dear Penniless Person, You starve. I know that’s tough to hear, but that may be what you have to do!! Because if you’re anything like me, […]

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Listomania: Rejected Listomania Ideas

Hottest Friars Best PC Bathroom Graffiti Ways To Cheat On Your DWC Exam Athletes We Would Date Most Useless Majors Places To Hide Stolen Cowls Ways To Avoid Parietals Schools Better Than PC Worst Things You Can Find In A Bathroom Sink Reasons Why Boys Break Ceiling Tiles How To Break Into Alumni On A […]

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Time Heals

by Sam Pellman ’20   Have you ever been in a moment and stopped to think about how much you’ll miss that exact moment? That no matter where you are or when you are there, you will never be able to live that moment again? So you tried to stop to soak it in, but […]

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The Unspoken GoodBye

by Connor Zimmerman ’20   Just when I turned towards you, I saw your face With the tears gracefully gliding down your cheek. You were smiling in your pain, trying to feign I walked over and held you close, as I said: “Smile now, don’t cry, ‘cause this is the first of the lasts.”   […]

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I Heard You Quit The Team

by Marelle Hipolito ’21   I heard you quit the team I didn’t think you would, and I didn’t think you could but you gave up your childhood dream   I heard that it was a long time coming people weren’t surprised, your priorities were compromised but you didn’t end up with nothing   I […]

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