Unrequited Love

February 19, 2023

Letter from the Editors

Dear all,   Since we came to Princeton in the fall of 2020, this little paper has remained a constant source of inspiration, camaraderie, and much mirth. We’re honored to usher in the 46th volume of the Nassau Weekly.   … Read More

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Unrequited Love: Full Design

This week, the Nass investigates the future of art, probes at prosopagnosia, and contemplates a cure for heartsickness.

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Sally Rooney and the New Amorous World

“In part, the devastation of Conversations with Friends lies in its ability to pinpoint the impurities that taint how we care for one another, without offering a clear or optimistic way out.”

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All the Things You and I Sea

“You look Right into the mirror and recognize what you’d drawn, part by part. Then you blink and completely forget what you’d seen, where you’d been –– or rather, you can’t really tell whether you had ever seen anything in the first place.”

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A Beginner’s Guide to Unrequited Love

A writer’s encounter with the tantalizing, bewildering phenomenon of the Princeton Partner.

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What Immersive Projector Experiences Mean for Art

Revolutionary or rip-off?

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From the Nass Past

What were Princeton students writing about thirty years ago? We’re jumping back in time to February, 1993 for some woeful poetry, questionable health advice, and dining hall commentary from our forefathers at the Nass.   Some wisdom for your post-Valentine’s … Read More

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After the Beast Within

In the Earth, Cicadaboy Has an Out-of-Body-Experience Sweat on slate like spilt brain ejaculate, like old sun god’s been plugging holes with lead again, old dog dying of heat stroke again, it’s Thursday, and a series of freak thunderstorms   … Read More

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Dark Age

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Statue Heads

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i miss the scent of you, sugar on my tongue

i miss the scent of you sugar on my tongue

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Verbatim

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Overheard in a bus

Fan-fic addict: “I know you're not into explicit gay sex, but I'm going to recommend something that has… a lot of it.”

Overheard in a decrepit quad

Broke college students: “What if we sold Pickle Me Elmo?”

Overheard at NCW

Bridesmaid: “It's gonna be the straightest thing I've participated in. She's fully marrying a man.”

Overheard talking about sports you did as a child

Unabashed sadomasochist: “Did you ever play the game where you squeeze the lemons in each other’s eyes?”

Overheard in Firestone

Serious student: “Alright, enough messing around. I’m resorting to lo-fi.”

Overheard at Schouse

Consultant boy: “It’s not union busting, it’s strategic realignment to maximize shareholder value.”

Overheard trying to look straight

Gay junior: “I don’t know. You just sort of have a gay face.”

Overheard in NCW

Navigator of befuddled aspirations: “Yeah.. I was at a pregame last week and like, we just sat around and talked — there was no, like, activity…so I guess it was just like, a networking pregame?”

Overheard over pork rinds and milkshakes

Person who has walked many paths in life: “I beat the former prime minister of Palestine at a game of trivia.”

Overheard while watching The Last of Us

Apocalypse Advocate, dreamily: “If the apocalypse happened in our time, we would barely remember capitalism.”

Overheard in Addy hall

Race Theorist: “White guys love talking to Black people. It makes them feel cool.”

Overheard in RoMa dining hall

Student who's in over his head: “I make literary references so people think I'm clever.”

Overheard in the Gender & Sexuality Resource Center

Girl: “All the eating clubs are bad…the Blackest music they know is Starships.”

Overheard in a Slightly Drunk Room

Friend after hearing an acquaintance's name: ‘That sounds like a pornstar name for colonialism.”

Overheard in the Architecture Library

Former Ivy bickeree: “Other than us, who do you think has the richest interior life?”