What Does a Good Girl Look Like
Women, more than men, feel compelled to meet superhuman standards.
Rebuilding
After the flood, a reflection on a healing state.
That Precept Kid Reviews Some Albums
Piggybacking off of your cultural criticism
When Tigerhub Goes Down
The twenty-one hours to himself during the day aren’t so bad, but the three hours at night are paralyzing. He always tells himself, in the midst of particularly productive days, that he’ll be able to finally start doing things during the night, but when the time comes he’s scared of going out.
Julia
The first text I sent you said “love me.” I had met you once, and sent it from your roommate’s phone. You were too cool to play it cool.
Peer Review
Since the beginning of time, editors at The Nassau Weekly have taken their pens to each other’s Common Application Essays. And yes, The Nassau Weekly has been around since the beginning of time.
103 Things to Do as a Prefrosh
The Nass compiled the definitive list of necessary prefrosh experiences
How To Write an Academic Paper
No one is too busy to not have time to think about how they are lonely
Geography Lesson
If the Atlantic Ocean has seen my breasts, held them for an evening in the dark, full night, did he tell anyone? If sky observed, unfurled her firmaments? If the arc of my neck meant anything [to him], cradled in cold strokes of strong current [and I’m not saying it has; just, like, what if] […]
Lost in the Oligarchy
While for some students, the middle of junior year marks the beginning (or a continuation) of a cushy and well-heeled existence, for others it is the moment when downward mobility becomes a reality.
Poem for Tim Faust, who said that poems shouldn’t be about flowers
This poem not about flowers just goes to show how far we’ve come since the days when people could practically not think without a daffodil, when in poetry a rose was not yet just a rose but always stood for some trivial catastrophe and unborn tulips blew the markets into bubbles. Those lily-livered vegetable-lovers (the […]