Who is She?

March 4, 2017

Even Princeton, Once Again

“While this moment in Princeton’s political history may not be entirely novel, it is a fire bell in the collective memory of the current University community.”

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Community Service

“I arrived on my first day of work nervous, the sweat of my anxiety masked by the steamy September weather.”

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St. Archibald’s League

Protesting bicker through St. Archibald’s League

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Fight Bicker, Do Better

St. Archibald’s from a protestor’s perspective

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A Problem of Privilege

“Girls aren’t educated at the same rates as boys? Government is in a constant state of unrest? It’s okay—the affluent white person can help.”

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Remembering Charlie Chan

“I found myself at the opening night of Charles Francis Chan Jr.’s Exotic Oriental Murder Mystery almost by chance.”

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An Alcohol.edu Love Story

“Because the last time we parted ways
Was in the upstairs lobby of McCosh.”

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A Day at the Met

A walk through history in New York’s most famous museum

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The Setlist

A review of Mega Bog’s “Happy Together” and Sam Skinner’s “Danny Through Junior EP”

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The Other Woman is left in the cold

“Never dipped one toe into water, but sipped juice on a hilltop.”

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Hi(gh) Zach

“Oh, how careful and considerate Zach thinks he is being, but it is too late for that now”

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Verbatim

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Overheard in room

Senior aesthete: I saw three midgets get into Berghain before I got rejected.

Overheard at Rojo’s

Desperately lonely boy: The president of the Stanford Chess Club is smoking hot. You can play her live on Facebook right now. Should I?

Overheard in Patton

Former Press Club President, wearing a "Chance 3" hat: Do you have your Marx on you?

Overheard outside 1901

Charming guy: She seems hot, but not after you spend three days in the wilderness with her.

Overheard in seminar

Marxist professor, to giant bug on the table: Engels!

Overheard in Patton T12

Nass EIC: As a non-Jewish woman, I spun the dreidel and won.

Overheard in Small World

Prospective Georgetown applicant, to Princeton interviewer: Do you know who Cory Booker is?

Overheard in Washington DC

Some guy: There were lots of woke people at the Women's March, including the guy who got kicked out of my co-op at Berkeley for being a misogynist.

Overheard at Princeton

Man on phone: Apart from Harvard, what do you have experience doing?

Overheard in Prospect Garden

Visiting mother: Wow, this is great, I feel like I'm on a retreat. Such great weather, such beautiful trees, such cute boys. What more could you ask for?

Overheard at national publication

Berkeley artsy trash boy, putting hair in half-ponytail: Honestly, the only time I do my hair like this is when I'm at my climbing gym.

Overhead in Ivy

St. A's senior: I might go to 7-11 for a slurpee and cigarettes.

Overheard at TI

Aesthete, sipping on IPA: This tastes like my acne medication.

Overheard at Terrace

Lead singer: Like all of you, we are trapped in a capitalist hellscape.

Overheard by elevator

Boy 1: Who is that blond girl in Cottage in your profile picture? She was in my Dostoevsky seminar.
Boy 2: She's one of my best friends.
Boy 1: I feel like club sailing has some of the most diverse affiliations.

Overheard in seminar

Judaic Studies professor, commenting on ancient text: What can we tell from this character's name? (waits for response) Well, he was clearly a nice Jewish boy.