Spawning Season

March 28, 2024

Heat pumps in TIGER

Digging into Geo-Exchange

Princeton’s newest way to fight climate change involves a lot of drilling. Are we ready for it?

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Spawning Season: Full Design

The Nass wakes up and it’s spring again. Time for making movies, holding doors, and generating power.  

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Books, My Old Flame: Reading, Regurgitating, and Reconnecting with Literature

A Nass writer sets out to repair an estranged relationship with reading.

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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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Lullaby Loon

If you find yourself forgetting how to breathe, do not be afraid. Leave the stones in your throat and learn to rise with the croaking loons, drifting as they do and as they have since the  beginning of time. Or … Read More

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Door Holder

“Discovery number one of the evening: there are a lot of ways to hold a door.”

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A Summer Unveiling Soviet Dreams: Leif Haase on the Nass’s Journalistic Pursuits

Reflecting on the magazine’s since defunct Soviet Studies department with a Nass alum

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I Want to Become Who I Was: Reflections on Filmmaking

Singapore, Sandi Tan’s Shirkers, and making a movie at nineteen

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La Jolie Sorcière

“As my eyes traced the fabric on the seat, I wondered what bébé Claude would think if he knew we were mingling with his murderer.”

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A Note from the Editor-In-Chief

When people say spring has sprung, they actually mean it has emerged from inside itself. Spring has ejected from its own abdomen through a lovely, vulvic little déchirure in the side. The whole thing sounded exactly like you’d think it … Read More

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Verbatim

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Overheard one Wednesday night

Discerning roommate, counseling on matters of love: He’s weird in an acceptable way. 

Overheard in Scully

Friend-turned-lover: Kissing is like a poor man’s hanging out.

Overheard in Firestone

Student, hating on professor : He’s only tall if you measure in how much of a bitch he is…

Overheard en route to Jadwin

Confused basketball fan: Is bounce-off at 8?

Overheard on NJ Transit

Student storyteller: I was taking Advil PM and DayQuil and having them fight it out because that’s the only way I could get high at the time.

Overheard in East Pyne

Slavic professor, probing his students yet again: So I am the prof and I come in here and say you people are so immature. Okay, so, how do you get out of that? Because by trying to show me you are mature, you are going to prove to me that you are immature. Double whammy. I sort of imprisoned you in my set of concepts. It’s sort of like quicksand, the more you try to wiggle out of it the more you get stuck in it.

Overhead in our depraved, morally-bankrupt world

Depraved, morally-bankrupt girl: Was Jesus a virgin?

Pervert: Mary was.

Depraved, morally-bankrupt girl: Yeah, virginity runs in the family I guess.

Overheard walking to Forbes

Large athletic man: Astrology is just space racism!

Overheard in Lewis Library

Clearly a NARP: Sometimes I wish I were an athlete. It must be great to just run around a field occasionally and pretend you’re at war or something.

Overheard in the common room

Roommate: I have squeezed the ball, now I will touch the tortilla.

Overheard in Yeh

Star-crossed artist: Born to paint in a small cottage in France. Forced to do COS126.

Overheard in bar in Berlin

Proud Irish lesbian: Are you also Irish?

Shameful American lesbian: No, I'm American…

Proud Irish lesbian: Oh, that's okay, we accept you still.