ElonParties

April 17, 2022

Will Toledo, Roberto Bolaño, and Some Notes on Growing Up

A senior looks back on his time at Princeton, as it comes to an end.

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ElonParties: Full Design

In the final issue of the semester, the Nass telescopes “echo,” critiques optimism, and considers what it means to leave this place.

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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

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Songs of the West

“…how will we escape when the sun meets its rise?”

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Cynical Optimism

A writer probes the all-too-cheery world of an optimist.

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The Sickness/Hastalık/Die Krankheit/بیماری/La Enfermedad

A multilingual short story exploring one’s thoughts while at the gym.

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Please leave a voicemail, I’m out of the wheelhouse

“Mysticism twists herself in circles, gnawing at her purple train..”

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Everything Everywhere Should Watch this Movie

“Everything Everywhere managed to accomplish authentic storytelling, complex character relationships, and a three-part plot structure in just over two hours, a feat that I did not think was possible.”

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Rumination

“I think often about this evening, and what my friend as trying to tell me. Something about appearances, how things seldom are how they seem? But this is too banal, and she is clever.”

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Apotheosis

Featured student art.

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Verbatim

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Overheard in lecture

AAS Professor: I know it's hot, but W.E.B. Du Bois didn't have air conditioning and he managed to produce all that great work.

Overheard in Terrace

Stressed junior: “Should I take neuroscience?”

Wise senior: “Why would you?”

Stressed junior: “If I decide to be a neurosurgeon, I want the door to be open.”

Wise senior: “Life is about closing doors.”

Overheard in Terrace

Music aficionado: “Did you know that Chick Corea made an album with L. Ron Hubbard?”

Friend, googling: “Of course it’s called Space Jazz.”

Overheard at dinner

Contemplative diner: “It was literally a walk-in drive-through. A walk-through, you could say.”

Overheard over text

Sad junior: “My lamp just burned out. Is that representative of me?”

Friend: “Yeah, sorry, I’ve always known you were a light bulb.”

Overheard while getting ready

Enlightened girl: “They say ‘dress for the job you want, not the job you have’ and the job I want is somebody's weed-smoking girlfriend.”

Overheard in Firestone

Pre-med senior: “I want to find a partner who can titrate my acidity to a perfect light pink.”

Friend: “Yes! To the endpoint, and no further!”

Overheard in the middle of the night

Guy shouting: “Dude! Why are you peeing on a tree!”

Guy peeing on a tree: “Not me! Not me!”

Overheard at flexitarian feast

Carnivore: That was so filling, like I didn't think vegetarian food could be so filling.

Overheard in architecture library

Distressed white boy: "She can date whatever moron she wants. Just keep that shit out of Wucox Dining Hall."

Overheard during breakfast

Diner 1: “I haven't pushed anyone down the stairs in a while.”

Diner 2: “Got to get back into it.”