Lessons From a Borrowed Home

Reflecting on the protests in Hong Kong.

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Princeton’s Glass Menagerie

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Considering glass buildings and the implications of tourism on Princeton’s campus.

Yellow Afternoons

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“There were always guava and mango, grapefruit and lychee. But, above all, there was always mother.”

The Virtue of Ambiguity

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A Review of the Film: Parasite

One-Minute Devotions

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“I wondered what or who—a simple puzzle, a stakeless one, but one that, in context, made my expectation of strangeness a mystery lived.”

Prisoners

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“The road unreels beside us, / Slicing the moonshade.”

Nass Recommends: Boygenius (2018)

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Praise for Boygenius.

Crossword

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Dregs

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“But with Mrs. Ashbury, Gregg was different. He showed her a care that she never seemed to reciprocate, even when she paid him.”

Pete Recommends: A Critical Reappraisal of Stairway to Heaven

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“But both in spite and because of this ubiquity, “Stairway to Heaven” gets a little slept on, relegated to the status of “rock classic” and thought of as a song more to be heard than to be enjoyed.”

Apostasia

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“Scramble the words you have been saving / for me”

On Playing School

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A personal reflection on compensating student athletes.

Climate reporting in the age of “alternative facts”

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On the state of environmental reporting under Trump.

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Overheard at Wilcox

Two juniors: Jesus is a big guy to leave room for.

Overheard outside Dillion

Frustrated middle-aged man: You can have my vote, I don't care WHO you are—if you can end daylight savings time. I’m like, DONE!!

Overheard on a plane

HUM professor to student: So, tell me the tea.

Overheard at Newark Airport

Prince Writer: Don't take it personally — I came out of the womb a bitch.

Overheard in Scully

Princeton alum, talking about how the world probably ended in 2012: Yeah, so everything post Harambe has been total nonsense.

Overheard in San Francisco

TI junior: Fuck. I thought I cared about social impact.

Overheard in Brooklyn

Woman, to roommate: It's not that I hate your pants. It's that I think you have a shopping addiction.

Overheard at TI

Theta junior: I just like boys with long hair. Maybe I’m a lesbian.

Overheard in Whitman

Sleep-deprived frosh to other sleep-deprived frosh: Let's all put our serotonin in a pile and split it.

Overheard late at night in a Whitman girls’ bathroom

Sophomore 1: God is ORFE.
Sophomore 2, emphatically: God is NOT ORFE!