Après Mitski

October 10, 2021

Only Curling, After All

“There are three types of curlers: the competitive, the prepubescent, and the beer-drinking. I have played with all three types in roughly equal measures.”

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Après Mitski – Full Design

This week, the Nass reads Sontag, sprains an ankle, and learns how to curl.

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Once Kin

“Now / she / shrouds / her / s k e l e t o n / in / oversize / d / sweatshirts.

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Sontag and Ancient Egypt

Upon a visit to the Met, a Nass writer considers the notion of experiencing art without analyzing it.

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Bedside Manner

Artwork.

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A Sprained Ankle and Two Princeton Plagues

A rumination on campus culture and personal pain.

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Nassk Me Anything: Eating Clubs

Your resident advice column.

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Gingko Leaves

“All / Cicero said we need is a library and a garden, so I’ll keep / little brown pots on the windowsills.”

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“Sweaty, Loud, and Not a Little Tipsy”

Four underclass students reflect on beginning and continuing college.

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Night-Blooming Flowers

“The sharp tenderness of Night’s long sigh / leaves the drunken hawk moths / dizzied from delight.”

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Verbatim

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Overheard over text

Bernie supporter after waiting in line at Flu Fest: I’m an elitist after this experience.

Politically moderate friend: Finally! I've been waiting so long for you to become elitist.

Overheard in 1901

Complimenting friend: Boss.

Power-hungry girlboss: Yes.

Friend: Dictator.

Girlboss: Yes.

Friend: You're a little too comfortable with that one.

Overheard in Wilcox

Birthday Party: *sings Happy Birthday*

Director of Student Life: That is not an a capella group.

Overheard outside Bent Spoon

SPIA major after eating a sugar cookie: There should be a section in Wikipedia called “controversy”.

Overheard at MOL Junior Tutorial

Conflicted Postdoc: Mice are so cute to work with, but in the end you have to kill them, which is annoying.

Overheard at Dinner

Concerned friend on children’s TV: You become a different person with Caillou. It's a toxic relationship.

Overheard in RoMa

=Confident male junior: Women don't poop.

Overheard outside of Frist

Philosophizing girl talking to her friend: It’s so much easier to assume that everyone is wrong than it is to assume that anyone is right.

Overheard at Murray Dodge

Cookie enjoyer: I know a few public school kids, I'm familiar with people of that background, I guess.

Overheard in Scully

Junior to friends about Junior Academic Honor Code renewal: can we take it together?

Honor code police friend: that's cheating.

Overheard in East Pyne

Lesbian: This fanny pack is making my nipples hard

Overheard in Frist

Introspective Sophomore: I enjoy being de-personified.

Overheard at Quad

Annoyed math major to gleeful French major: Stop laughing about eigenvalues, you don't even know what that is!

Overheard in Wilcox

DSL: J Street will not be open next year.

ARCA: Where will all the math majors sleep?

Overheard after the Béla Fleck Concert

Junior ARCA: I have never been in a room with so many fedoras.