Category: Reflections

Rock Stacking and Doom Scrolling, On Repeat

A Nass contributor evades the limits of time, on a remote sandbar in Maine and on YouTube Shorts.

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Dead Phone

People in the New Jersey Transit Newark Liberty International Airport Train Station bound for New York City:  A man with blood on his face drinking Starbucks and A woman asking Starbucks blood man which side goes to Penn Station, swinging … Read More

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Nass Dispatch: Rowing Camp Chronicles

A Nass editor abroad reflects on a decidedly unNass-like pastime.

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The Sartrean Diary of a Cranky Barista

“Perhaps days are too long for me. I must change the scale of memory. I’ll try writing in hours and minutes.”

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A-Train to Elsewhere

“I did not understand the sentiment of a chapter. Life had only been one chapter. I thought life would only be one chapter.”

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The Nassau Weekly Anonymous

Nass contributors share drug stories that are strange, funny, remarkable, heartwarming, or otherwise worth compiling.

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On Going Off Antidepressants

Notes on the reality of antidepressant dependency and withdrawal

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The Modern Cowboy’s a Guy Who Smokes Weed: A Treatise on Chronic Daily Use

A personal history of moderate substance use and abuse

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High on Laced Marijuana on Princeton Campus

“Everytime I looked down at my cigarette, it was just as long as it had been the last time I checked. She then moved on to telling me about her internship.”

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A Note on Drugs & Discipline from an Overcautious Schoolgirl

Identity and substance use collide during a boarding school drug bust

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Sexy Pablo

“To Colombians, he was a terrorist. But in the eyes of the rest of the world, he’s a Criminal Mastermind. The question is, why?”

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Speaking Japanese

“These days, learning a language feels particularly significant and necessary. Learning a language: a small multiplication of life in a world of multiplying death.”

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