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Why Am I Still a Statistic?

“While I believe in the pipe dream that colleges should give each student, no matter how sparkly, the same care and attention, my more grounded argument is this: Why does worthiness stop being ‘holistic’ after students of color have been accepted to college?”

by Sierra Stern on September 29, 2023

PRINCEWATCH

Back from hiatus, PrinceWatch is here to keep campus journalism accountable. This week we’re punching up with this triumph of data analysis:   “Top Universities released decisions. Admissions Instagram followers plunged.”   (Published April 3rd, 2023)   A melodramatic headline … Read More

by Sierra Stern on April 23, 2023

Letter from the Editors

Dear all,   Since we came to Princeton in the fall of 2020, this little paper has remained a constant source of inspiration, camaraderie, and much mirth. We’re honored to usher in the 46th volume of the Nassau Weekly.   … Read More

by Sam Bisno, Sierra Stern on February 19, 2023

Sally Rooney and the New Amorous World

“In part, the devastation of Conversations with Friends lies in its ability to pinpoint the impurities that taint how we care for one another, without offering a clear or optimistic way out.”

by Sierra Stern on February 19, 2023

Flightlessness and Being Mine: On Black-Jewish Non-Belonging At Princeton

“I have to sift the hate out of Judaism where I can, the hate I have for myself, the hate other people have for us, and the hate I identify in certain Jewish communities directed toward women or Palestinians or Black people.”

by Sierra Stern on November 6, 2022November 6, 2022

Telescoping Echo

To telescope, we begin with 300 words, then slice the word count in half for each successive section. We stop when the numbers stop dividing evenly. This week, eight Nass writers telescope the word “echo” (echo, echo). Lucia Brown At … Read More

by Alexandra Orbuch, Amaya Dressler, Audrey Zhang, Kate Lee, Lara Katz, Lucia Brown, Sierra Stern, Tommy Goulding on April 17, 2022April 17, 2022

Family Bones

A fiction piece reflecting on how to cope with impending loss.

by Sierra Stern on April 3, 2022April 3, 2022

Only In Name: The Myth of Model Minority Assimilation

“There is a sad symbolism to this game of catch-up, a sense of sprinting after an ideal that is perpetually out of reach.”

by Sierra Stern on February 20, 2022February 22, 2022

At the Expense of the Invisible: the White Male Perspective of Cartoon

“Perhaps children of the early 2000s should be grateful for tamer coming-of-age protagonists who dealt with school bullies, boogers, and cursed slices of cheese within the vacuum of endless middle school.”

by Sierra Stern on November 20, 2021November 20, 2021

Monkey See

“They probably thought Evan just smelled like that: nauseatingly floral like Katie Levi-Moretti, the first girl in his high school class to discover perfume and, therefore, the last person everybody wanted to sit next to at assembly.”

by Sierra Stern on November 14, 2021

Prayer to the Stratosphere

“The chunks of Amie’s life were too insignificant to be measured in Christ or Common Era. Even her birthdays seemed an inaccurate measurement of the passage of time.”

by Sierra Stern on September 19, 2021September 18, 2021

Losing a City

“Regardless, an aquiline parasite lived inside me, compelling me violently with its bald-eagle talons to wage psychological Revolutionary Warfare against my own best friend.”

by Sierra Stern on August 1, 2021July 31, 2021


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