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Dear Prefrosh

A little story from Susannah’s Preview experience: eyes bright, face flushed, she had decided that her passion was Comparative Literature (it isn’t), and what do you know, there was an open house, at 4:30, in a place called East Pyne. Perfect, she thought, locating “Pyne,” on the map and setting off.

by Filipa Ioannou, Susannah Sharpless on April 11, 2013April 13, 2013

Maybe I Said Yes

Your whole life, you hear about the milestones that are supposed to change something inside you. For me, they came and went largely unnoticed. Birthdays, first kisses, the loss of my virginity, the first truly random sexual experience I ever had—all left me unmarked and wondering at how it was that I never felt any different. The summer after my senior year of high school, I walked home after sleeping with a man six years my senior and, after years of falling for people too easily, congratulated myself for not feeling anything. I thought that sex could not hurt me and that—to me—was a triumph of self-defense over feeling, one I held on to in the years that followed.

by Filipa Ioannou on March 28, 2013November 7, 2014

All in the Family

A closer look at significant others.

by Filipa Ioannou on November 16, 2011March 17, 2013

Too Quiet to Hear Except at Night

I wake to the sound of a snowdrift shed from the roof like antlers shrugged off by a deer or like that molting time when birds stay flightless a while to grow themselves back.

by Filipa Ioannou on September 28, 2014June 10, 2015

Revenge Porn

If you’ve ever sat behind me in a class or glanced at my laptop screen while walking past me in Frist, you may have wondered why there is a band-aid covering my webcam.

by Filipa Ioannou on April 6, 2014September 22, 2017

Scenes from Petey Greene (Part 1)

Maybe it’s just the New Jersey weather or the tint of the van’s windows but it seems like it’s always foggy when I drive to Garden State, a sprawling correctional complex whose hallways I’ve walked through without ever really managing to glean the building’s external shape. We always drive towards it from the same side. Inside the hallways shoot off from rounded enclosure where the guards sit like identical grayish-beige spokes from a wheel. Sometimes it’s hard to find my way out because everything looks the same.

by Filipa Ioannou on February 23, 2013September 7, 2013

The Expert

Undernourished Diversions [Perspectives on The Hunger Games ]: Part 3.

by Filipa Ioannou on April 11, 2012March 17, 2013

The Five People You Meet at Princeton Preview

Which one were you?

by Filipa Ioannou on April 18, 2012March 17, 2013

Excess and Thrift

Last night there was an enormous raccoon prowling through the dumpsters in Wilson. The girl I was walking with recoiled, but I was sympathetic—ever since I joined the free food listserv I often feel like a nocturnal creature rummaging through … Read More

by Filipa Ioannou on September 28, 2011March 17, 2013

Virginterviews

Looking for a place to start this article and overwhelmed by the weight of the subject matter before me, I do a quick experiment and type “virginity” into Google; I’m curious to see the most popular searches. “Virginity statistics, virginity auction, virginity quotes, virginity pledge” reads the list. The list doesn’t help much except to reestablish what I don’t want this article to be about.

by Filipa Ioannou on May 9, 2013May 11, 2013

People You Meet At Princeton Preview

The five dankest.

by Filipa Ioannou on September 8, 2012March 17, 2013

Hussein My Inbox?

White House email tactics.

by Filipa Ioannou on October 3, 2012March 17, 2013


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