Category: Portfolio

Tiff & Earl

Dear Tiff and Earl, What’s your opinion on breakfast for dinner? Sincerely, Green Eggs and Ham   Dear Green Eggs and Ham, I am a huge fan of brunch all day, any day, at any time of day, so long as that includes bottomless mimosas. I guess then that puts me in the category of […]

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Listomania: What To Do If You Don’t Have A Spring Concert Ticket

Go in the Friar Dom Costume Cry Ride the RIPTA Have Your Parents Email About it Extort Your Roommate For a Ticket FaceTime Someone at the Concert Put on Your Own Concert Listen to the Walmart Yodeling Kid Remix on Repeat Pretend to Be a Backup Dancer Order Chinese and Watch a Movie Eat Italian […]

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Memory—Two Halves

by Kiley McMahon ’20   As I flip the pages of the torn up scrapbook, I remembered the moment like it was just yesterday. my mind boggles as I envision him and I, I looked into his eyes lovingly and cautiously. modest, humble, and conservative attire of gowns and suits, The silk and leather which […]

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Summer On The Island

by Sam Pellman ’20   The sunlight struck her bed gently She slowly opened her eyes and a moment of panic hit her heart She glanced at her phone which read 11:16 a.m. But then she remembered she was in her bed at home, in no rush to be anywhere Maybe just the beach was […]

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One Crazy Moment

by Connor Zimmerman ’20   I want to go back to that one crazy moment: It was a dark night in a party where I felt particularly estranged. It started like any other late night, with the same people who talked to me in friendly but shallow exchanges. That was until we exchanged glances. I […]

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Respect The Wood

  by Marelle Hipolito ’21   “Respect the wood,” you joked. “I always hated the little rings the cups made, it ruins the wood.” We were buying souvenirs, and we came upon a whole wall of coasters. There were different kinds: cork with quotes on them, cloth with hearts hand-sown in, and ceramic with little […]

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Gilded: Two Stories

by Jonathon Coppe ’18   I. Noah Donahue looked at an icon. The church he had entered was kept quite dim. It lit up and down by alcoves of warm candlelight illuminating the side chapels of icons and statuettes, so that the nave—with its vast greenish-grey vaulted ceiling—held only a bare and fragile light. The […]

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Snow

by David Martineau ’18   “It’s really cold out today!” I said, my hands trembling as I stuffed them in the pockets of my thin coat. Beside me, Johnny walked with his head lowered in a sullen silence. He had been unusually quiet since we left school, but I didn’t bother to ask why, because […]

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Tiff & Earl

Dear Tiff and Earl, Who is your celebrity crush? Sincerely, BuzzFeed   Dear BuzzFeed, This one’s a no-brainer: local Providence College celeb Adam Hanna. I stroll on down to the Met every chance I get in hopes that his transcendent eyes will finally meet mine. Each and every night I drift off to sleep while […]

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Listomania: Life Lessons Learned From DWC

How to Sneak Out of Class to Get Starbucks How to Make Up for Not Participating How to Avoid Getting Called On How to Scan Sparknotes/Shmoop 10 Minutes Before Seminar How to Bullshit How to Not Read and Still Pass How to Pretend You’re Interested in a Very Boring Topic How to Write Papers the […]

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