Room Drawma!

April 8, 2018

Once Upon a Time Not Long Ago

First, there was the cinnamon challenge. Then, the Tide Pod challenge. And now, the Frist hoe.

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Barbed Beauty

“Perhaps we must accept that we are simply watchers of beautiful forms. And if we acknowledge that we are observers, bound by our own frailties and limitations, we may be able to rescue the memory of what was, for an instant, exquisite.”

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I Want You Flat on Your Back, And Then I Want You Strong Again: A Different Phantom Thread

“These are Alma’s and the film’s first words. A cynic will scoff, but no, give a serious thought to this idea. How many of us have the courage to dream – how many of us have the courage to dispense with cynicism and see our dreams come true?”

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Love in the Orange Bubble

“I scribbled a question on my scrap of paper and tossed it into the designated baseball hat: Can you tell us a little about hookups and relationships at school?”

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The Nass Recommends!

A ream of recommendations from the Nass’ mind to yours.

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Miriam Y. Holden Collection, Firestone Library Princeton, NJ

“When Women Look at Men / 8 Million Women Want / Women’s Rights”

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And It Was Love

“On the temple of your ivory bone and porcelain skin / I offered muscle and combustion / Meager morsels, for the moment,”

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We Who Yearn for Spring

“Our trembles and tears are made bright. Dancing across / our cheeks blushing and buzzing with the blossoming weather. / Possibility is today. Happiness is now. The inhale, the exhale.

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Verbatim

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Overheard on iMessage

Ex-Nass Writer: It might be a caffeine high, or I might have just truly experienced cubism for the first time.

Overhead at Cap the Thursday before Spring Break

Drunk sophomore Cap member: These passes better get used. It's a waste of paper otherwise. I'm a conscious citizen of the Earth.
Female sophomore: Honestly, shut up.

Overheard on Latin Spring Break Trip to Rome

Classics Junior: I'm a Eurocentric imperialist white man!
Professor: Calm down.

Overheard in Firestone

HUM Alum: I write all my papers on sex. I'm the most virginal person I know. Riddle me that.

Overheard in Forbes 162

Prospective English major in Calc I: When I factor something, I just like… orgasm.

Overheard outside dorm after false fire alarm at 6am

Frosh girl to her roommate: I feel like we've really bonded over shared trauma now

Overheard at Nassau Hall:

Blonde Pi Phi drunkenly peeing on Nassau Hall:
This building is older than America!
Take that, old white men!

Overheard Outside Cafe Viv:

Girl: You can't come to Passover at my house, you're not Jewish.
Bro: But I'm in Apes.

Overheard at Terrace

Senior Terran: Sucking dick is not a personality trait.

Overheard at Terrace

Jewish American Princess: I’m a *woman*!!! When I got my IUD I felt like a woman again. I was like ‘bat mitzvah take 2!!!’

Overheard on serious seniors discussing life after college:

1: "But what do you ultimately want to be when you're older?"
2: "Retired"

Overheard on the B floor

Senior wearing Warby Parkers: I only use Twitter to follow basketball stars. And radical leftists. There's a lot of overlap.

Overheard in the privacy of a dorm room

"What are your favorite snacks?"
Picky eater roommate: I really like gruel.

Overheard by Frist

Group of girls, leaving the street: She was wearing stilettos. I mean, you do you… but she was doing you all wrong.

Overheard at Cap

Gay Officer: What are Sodom and Gomorrah? I thought they were a pair of historical gay lovers.

Overheard in Butler Library

Social Chair (whispering): How many baguettes can we purchase for $2000?