Spring Stricken

March 11, 2018

Telescoping Youth

Memories may fade as distance grows wider between ourselves and our young selves, but one thing remains constant: if we dig down deep into the recesses of our experiences, hold light up to the seeds of our current moment, brush off the dust, we might find something worth writing about.

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Life After Life on Spotify

“No one thinks of Spotify as a means to immortality. But so long as the platform exists, a sort of permanence is granted. Our long finished playlists will become fuel for Discover Weekly long after we’re gone. We become eternal tastemakers, unconsciously curating mixtapes for future listeners.”

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PERIODPALOOZA

The politics of periods and how two students are reframing our conceptions of menstruation through social justice.

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Banning the Box

Inside the coalition aiming to eliminate Princeton University’s questioning of applicants’ criminal histories, and the broader decarceration movement.

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The Bearer

Caught in a hail storm, what would you discover about yourself?

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15 March: La femme qui s’appelait Brute et savait observer les ambassadeurs

They say she wears a mask that could launch a thousand ships and that with the purse of her lips, the white-gloved hands she uses to light thin, pretty cigarettes and drink Manhattans that she would launch them.

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The Bees Are Trapped

Nicki Minaj, where are the bees? The bees are not in the trap— They are trapped in air that refuses to be their home.

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Verbatim

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Overheard in Roma

Retrospective female: I used to use Tinder as a way of exploring the restaurants around here.

Overheard in Terrace

Nass EIC: The New Testament is just fan fiction of the Old Testament.

Overheard in Cafe Viv

Frosh on a health kick: I don't do tropical fruit in my acai bowl. I'm more of a berry boy.

Overheard on Nassau Street

Nass EIC: The first time I tripped, I fully realized that I'm a pathological misanthrope.

Overheard in Terrace

Terran: I guess the most stressful thing I’ve done is smoked before a jazz band concert in my senior year of high school.

Overheard in Frist

Jewish girl: You'll be happy to know my bat mitzvah was at a bowling alley – an upscale bowling alley.

Overheard in Terrace

Terrace officer: I just have flesh-eating bacteria on my mind a lot.

Overheard on Luce listserv

Devout Catholic advertising for interfaith dinner: There will be food and ample opportunities for friends, fun, and evangelization.

Overheard in Roma

SWUG (Sophomore Washed Up Gay): I was such a good boyfriend that they literally needed a trans-continental rebound.

Overheard in Cuyler

Terrace alum: I love self deprivation. That’s why I always do Lent.

Overheard at Ivy

Jewish Ivy junior, sincerely: Quad don’t give no fucks.

Overheard in BT office

Sophomore Ivy Pi Phi: I've never faced rejection – I definitely can't start now.

Overheard in Wilson dining hall

Random Frosh: I feel like he's one of those people who thinks he's really talented because he's really rich.

Overheard on the Street

Drunk engineer 1: I gave up alcohol for Lent.
Drunk engineer 2: It would have been easier if you had given up sex.

Overheard in Firestone

Frosh concernedly looking at foot: I just looked at my foot and got so worried that I had four toes.

Overheard en route to Frist

Ivy soph: I just don’t get social climbing vibes from him... maybe the fact that he’s using me to climb is clouding my judgment.

Overheard in Frist

Lapsed Episcopalian Upper East Sider, eating her acai bowl: I spent last Easter at Sunday Funday.