The JUUL-ian Street Library

November 20, 2021

In the Temporality of Chalk

“Through my chalk drawing, I wanted to engage with the concept of fluidity and a flexible present. What if the priority was not permanence, but the process?”

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The JUUL-ian Street Library: Full Design

In the final issue of our forty-third volume, the Nass looks for a lost bike, watches chalk disappear, and gets jazzy in the chapel.

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Comics

Some cartoons for your Sunday pleasure.

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Nass Recommends: Jazz Vespers

Wherein a Nass writer visits a unique service at the Princeton chapel.

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Resolves

“The last time my dad broke in, he took a key to the bathroom screen. It still flaps in heavy wind.”

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Persistence Hunting

A chronicle of one student’s misplaced bicycle.

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White Doll, Asian Woman

“But was my femininity forced on me, the only feasible result of a life grown around dolls and children’s books?”

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The Spirit of Curling: Vignettes

Reflections on an author-athlete’s relationship to her sport.

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Thinking About Conversations

Wherein the author reflects on what constitutes a meaningful exchange.

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90 Princeton Courses that Were Never Taught

All the courses you always wanted to take—if the university ever let you.

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The N is Not Silent

“My name commands the full tongue, the breath of a whole lung”

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At the Expense of the Invisible: the White Male Perspective of Cartoon

“Perhaps children of the early 2000s should be grateful for tamer coming-of-age protagonists who dealt with school bullies, boogers, and cursed slices of cheese within the vacuum of endless middle school.”

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Verbatim

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Overheard in a Uber

Enlightened Junior: I've never been so dead inside. I'll never be the same.

Overheard inside Witherspoon Hall

Frustrated LGBT senior: I’ve googled “how to dress lesbian” at least 14 times this week.

Overheard during Study Group

STEM major trying to make a point: I'm a neuro-transmitter and he's a voltage gated ion channel receptor. Do you understand?

English Major: *exasperated* no.

Overheard In the CJL Dining Hall

Sophomore SJW: Do you think the Princeton Committee on Palestine has merch?

Overheard on Elm St. on a Monday evening

Passerby: And I straight up Stanford Prison Experimented these kids.

Overheard in Frist

Writer: I feel like Freud would have a lot to say about this.

Other writer: I don't know much about Freud.

Writer: Me neither.

Overheard during a hookup:

Boob enthusiast: You have nice boobs. They make so many fun shapes!

Overheard at Coffee Club

Coffee Club employee: We can't have that many people saying that our drinks are shit.

Overheard in Brown

Philosophical White Man: I feel like white people name their children really long names to have power over them. Like knowing the name of a demon.

Overheard after Vacation

Rested Junior on pullout couch: In the least homosexual way possible, sleeping with you was amazing.

Overheard after an unofficial tour

Tourist to unofficial tour guides: I would tip you, but I can't, so I'm going to walk away now.

Overheard during a Revenge Plot

Voice of Reason: But what do you gain?

Vengeful girl-boss: It's about taking down the patriarchy!

Overheard over a microwaved brownie

Club officer: They should call you guys the Real Housewives of Terrace.

Woman: No, they shouldn't.

Context: Overheard at Frist

Frosh, having just awoken from a nap: Bro, Princeton is easy. Don't you know we have a 98% graduation rate?

Overheard on Discord

Despairing Physics Major after being asked for help on P-Set: Inject yourself with self loathing and you might be able to do it.