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Review: Neeta Patel’s “time is a floating point number.”

Patel’s senior thesis show […] is an intelligent meditation on text, handwriting, and the act of recording.

by Eliza Mott on March 23, 2016March 29, 2016

The Greatest Debate

Two art history majors argue the most crucial issue of our time: Which Princeton plastic water bottle is better?

by Eliza Mott, Hadley Newton on February 14, 2016February 14, 2016

Princeton’s Ten Hottest Freshmen

What follows is an unranked list of ten of the most beautiful freshmen at Princeton, as chosen by us and based on a survey of approximately four upperclassmen girls.

by Eliza Mott, Hadley Newton, Olivia Lloyd, Sophie Parker-Rees on October 24, 2015November 15, 2015

Orderliness

I am starting to become unsure about nonsense

by Eliza Mott on April 26, 2015April 26, 2015

A Review

The senior thesis exhibition currently on view in the Lucas Gallery at 185 Nassau is entirely wordless.

by Eliza Mott on April 23, 2015April 23, 2015

Bantam River

They rocket down to the water where stones are smooth gems, opalescent grapes, the eyeballs you grope from a bowl in a spook house.

by Eliza Mott on November 14, 2014November 16, 2014

Annie

Annie, dusting the earth in birdseed, cups her ear for the coos of loons that echo up from Bantam Lake—across the thistled yellow hill where deer would bow their heads, go rigid, then bolt into the curtain of trees.

by Eliza Mott on April 26, 2014April 27, 2014

Dirge

Something about the engineering of stairwells / makes you want to push someone down one. / Vertebrae snapping against all those / edges straight as rulers. Too violent,

by Eliza Mott on March 30, 2014March 30, 2014

God and Old White Dudes

Spotted on Prospect Avenue: old white dudes trying to convert drunken college students to the Way of the Lord. Holding signs proclaiming, “Atheism is a temporary condition,” they spend the night stopping Street stumblers for fruitless conversations of the ecclesiastical nature.

by Eliza Mott on October 19, 2013October 20, 2013

Skimm-ing Off The Top

In the “About Us” section of their website, the creators of theSkimm proclaim: “We see ourselves as a part of a generation where women are out-earning men in paychecks and degrees. We’ve grabbed our seats at the table, now it’s time to Skimm to the head.” I researched the daily newsletter after it was recommended to me as something “super helpful” by my brother’s wealthy, educated girlfriend who works in an art gallery.

by Eliza Mott on October 19, 2013October 20, 2013

Eisgruber Excess

As I stood in a fifteen-minute line for Nomad Pizza last Sunday at the installation celebration for President Eisgruber, I felt more like I was at Chris’s personal episode of “My Super Sweet Sixteen” than his inauguration. There was a famous band whose booking agent lists their price at over $100,000, free pizza and ice cream, bubble tea, and tons of Princeton swag.

by Eliza Mott on October 3, 2013October 4, 2013

Poetry As Rap

The world of contemporary poetry has a startling new voice—and it is one that sounds a lot like an MC. This voice is that of Michael Robbins, who had his first poem chosen by Paul Muldoon to be published in the New Yorker just last year, and who this past year published his first collection of poems, Alien Vs. Predator.

by Eliza Mott on April 18, 2013April 20, 2013


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