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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
by David Martineau, ’18 Portfolio Editor
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? […]
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. […]