The Dating Issue

November 14, 2024

“It’s Just a Sex Thing”: Hookup Culture and the Death of Movement Feminism

This Nass writer assembles anecdotes from six Princeton women to answer the question: Where do we go from here?

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The Dating Issue: Full Design

This week, we shacked up, settled down, and cuffed ourselves into oblivion

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Nass List: What’s Your Type?

What’s our type?

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I Got with an Alum, and I Liked It: A True Story

“‘We both have husbands,’ replied the other man, and they leaned in for a passionate kiss.”

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Room for Romance? Residential Colleges and Their Dating Prospects

Mathey / Rocky  They’re objectively beautiful. Cultured. Nuanced. The only problem is our age gap.    I really like their history lectures, but I worry our relationship can only exist in les amphithéâtres. They drink their coffee black, they enjoy … Read More

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Nass Recommends: Four Books of Theory to Impress Your Crush

A little bit of theory to fill you in on human emancipation and elevate your reputation

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At the End of It

“She was smiling. She hadn’t stopped smiling since she got here. He wanted her to stop. He’d known her for months and hadn’t seen her cry yet.”

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The Problem with the Modern Love Novel

An epistolary account of sex, love, literature, and tragedy

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Nassifieds

Reach out to thenassauweekly@gmail.com if any of these tickle your fancy!

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Reigning Friendship

Another Nass writer challenges the supremacy of romance and chats about her friends

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The Bride Wore Black (and Orange)

A Nass writer and maid-of-honor offers an inquiry into the phenomenon of Princeton couples at the scene of some nuptials

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Dating, in Five Metaphors

A Nass writer pulls out the real multiplicity of love in five little analogies

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Verbatim

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Overheard on Election Day

Mentally-ill: The real question here is who’s tapped into Peanut the Squirrel?

Overheard in girl dorm

Judger of men: Bot…I would say.

Lover of men: Why is everyone a bot these days?

Judger of men: AI Era.

Overheard in Tower

Struggles with words: I think I will likewise receive the same great pleasure.

Overheard in Whig-Clio

Voted blue: I apologize for the dissonance in our humour cognition. 

Voted red: I’m not even going to bother looking up dissonance.

Overheard in group chat

English-major: It’s called a joke with alliteration.

ESL: It did not land in our lands.

Overheard in Little

Legal adult: I thought it was giggly.

Overheard on Halloween

Angsty and topical: I would hook up with a ghost. You could see through their bullshit.

Overheard after the clock strikes twelve

Anti-breakfast date: No one feels romantic before noon.

Overheard at dinner

Prego©-matist: I want a sauce-focused pizza.

Overheard in Bloomberg 044

Fabulous frosh: I’ve been told my hair is half my aura.

Overheard in Coffee Club

Grad student who’s too into Tinder: You should always be with the one you’re eye-fucking.

Overheard at Charter

Softie, drenched in their own spit: I can't believe he actually thought I was crying in the corner and never apologized and on top of that made fun of my country’s potassium production.