Category: Portfolio

Listomania: How to Survive Winter at PC

Cuddle with squirrels for warmth Wear a ski mask Stand inside the Calabria Torch Put hot chocolate into your veins via IV Buy a $500 jacket in the bookstore Become cold-blooded Ask your professors to cancel class in the spirit of Christmas Burn your purchased textbooks for warmth Admit defeat and accept Lucifer as your […]

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Tiff and Earl

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 […]

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“You Will Be Found:” Dear Evan Hansen: Broadway’s Hit Show Continues to Inspire Through Its Novel Form

by Sara Conway ’21 A&E Staff Today is a good day, and here’s why… Ever since premiering on Broadway in late 2016, Dear Evan Hansen has remained a phenomenon across the globe, winning six Tony Awards in 2017, including Best Musical.  Evan Hansen is a high school senior who struggles with severe social anxiety and […]

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American Must-Reads: David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World

by Dr. Ted Andrews’ U.S. History to 1877 Class Associate Professor of History Some free blacks in the late 1820s traversed the American south with contraband so dangerous, and so controversial, that it had to be sewn into the very clothes they were wearing.  The contraband was not weapons or explosives, but rather a short […]

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White Rooms

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 […]

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Pizza for Breakfast

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, […]

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Broken Love Story

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 […]

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Tangible Love

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 […]

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Therapy

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 […]

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Chuckle Headz Take on Thanksgiving

by Mark Fairchild ’20

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