Category: Portfolio

Listomania: Things PC Could’ve Done Instead of a Torch

Built a New Dorm Renovated Aquinas Paid Adjuncts Exterminated Mice Spent More on Lawn Care Built a Petting Zoo Spent More Money on Student Health Updated The Cowl Office Brought in Edible Food Fixed Utilities in General Created More Student Parking Cloned Kris Dunn Built a Zipline to Downtown Providence Bought More Treadmills Literally Anything […]

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A New Beginning

  By Kiley McMahon ’20 Portfolio Staff   He sits, lingers, paces, runs, and begs.   He is starved, parched, alone, and weary.   He takes a train, far far away, from chaos, and clutter, that his future life brought.   A new beginning, a bottle released, left to scavenge, along with the past life, […]

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A House’s Heart

by Marisa Gonzalez ’18 Portfolio Staff   Green vines entangled the old brick house, sucking the life out of it. Not that there was much life to suck out, as Old Gladys had passed, but the brick house was being consumed and the sight was scary. There was a time when I thought the house […]

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Right Person, Wrong Time?

  by Sam Pellman ’20 Portfolio Staff   What had the potential to be the perfect summer instead turned into the summer of realization. The realization that sometimes no matter how hard you try or how badly you want it, love just isn’t enough. It isn’t enough right now, in this moment, but with time […]

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Sueño

by Julia Zygiel ’19 Portfolio Staff   She speaks in fragments of dreams, their syrup clinging to her lips, betraying the intensity of her sweetness. She is a waking fantasy, never completely here with me, but always present in my mind, in the pseudo-unreality of my dreams. She says, “I love you, but not in […]

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Lost in the Current

by Connor Zimmerman ’20 Portfolio Staff   She sits there calmly looking at a mirror. With a penetrating gaze, she studies it like she can look through it. The people on the other side begin to squirm in discomfort, worried for reasons they do not fully understand. One of the guys says, “Dan, look at […]

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Tiffany and Earl

  Dear Tiff and Earl, I ordered my books from the bookstore yesterday, but they’re on backorder.  I need them for the first week and have no friends.  What do I do?!?! Sincerely, Not-A-Bookworm   Dear Not-A-Bookworm, First off, I am very confused as to why you having no friends has anything to do with […]

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Construction at Providence College

by David Martineau, ’18 Portfolio Editor

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Listomania: Questions Freshmen Ask

What is the best way to bribe my Civ professor? Why is there no sauce on Ray pizza? Can I still pass if I don’t do any of the reading? Who is Thomas Aquinas? Where is Slahvin* Lawn? How do I tell my roommate he’s being too loud with a girl? What is an RA? […]

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The Bedroom Light: A Moment, in Two Pictures

by Jonathan Coppe, ’18 Portfolio Staff   Getting up for the graveyard shift is a bitch. Who wants to go to work at 10 at night? No, on second thought, it’s going to bed at dawn that’s the worst part. I hate lying down while the sun comes up and it only ever gets brighter. […]

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