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Lines from Love Notes or Breakup Texts

“You’re not the kind of guy people usually date.
I’m not the kinda person that people usually love.”

by Liza Milov on December 10, 2017December 10, 2017

Mercury in Retrograde

“If I fit so perfectly into astrology’s puzzle, why wouldn’t everyone else?”

by Alex Jacobson on November 19, 2017November 17, 2017

Left Turn

“One thing I’m sorry for is if I compressed you into that night.”

by Alice Maiden on November 19, 2017November 19, 2017

#what’s love

“They say love is accepting one another as is, marveling at the imperfections and delighting at the quirks.”

by Anonymous on November 12, 2017November 10, 2017

Induction

“But looking at this sunrise, I realized I had missed the magic of so many past ones with my expectation.”

by Tess Solomon on November 12, 2017November 10, 2017

Telescoping Morning

“In the succeeding entries, we telescope our mornings by recounting and recasting. Each succeeding morning of a series is composed in exactly half the number of words of the previous. Diminish with us below.”

by Alex Jacobson, Ananya Malhotra, Carolyn Kelly, Christopher Villani, David Exumé, Katie Duggan, Miriam Friedman, Serena Alagappan, Tara Shirazi, Tess Solomon, Tianyi Wang on October 22, 2017October 22, 2017

Elevators

“Someone said this to me the other day: People always seem to press the elevator button again even if someone else has already pressed it.”

by Katie Duggan on October 15, 2017October 15, 2017

Le Cirque, C’est Chic

One pearly-teethed, outdoors adverse Princeton debutant examines the thrilling liberation of circus arts.

by Alex Jacobson on October 15, 2017October 14, 2017

Mom’s (Extra-Chunky!) Bolognese

A family heirloom recipe of zero generations.

by Allison Huang on October 8, 2017October 8, 2017

A Requiem for Rowing

“I miss the bonding that can only result from that mutual suffering, the singing in the shower, the conversations in the ballroom while we stretched our exhausted limbs, the sprint up the hill to dinner before our hair froze into icicles.”

by Emily McLean on October 8, 2017October 8, 2017

Monopoly

“I slipped two hotels into my pockets; I slept with some under my pillow that night, and the little silver piece I put in my sock for the day.”

by Serena Alagappan on October 8, 2017October 8, 2017

Princeton on Crutches

“There are so many random steps on campus that you don’t notice until they become a barrier. It’s hard to explain the dread that washes over you when you’re trying to crutch from Schultz to Friend in ten minutes and encounter a flight of stairs.”

by Emily McLean on October 8, 2017March 8, 2018


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