Soft-spoken philo-bro: I’m trying to cut back on the caffeine. 300 milligrams a day was feeling risky.
Chatty gay: And how much is in that yerba mate?
Philo-bro: Only 200. It’s about the tapering.
Overheard by the tables in that long hallway in Dillon
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Giving Up on Pretty: Capitalism, Feminism, and the Illusion of Control
“I’d like to think that through educating myself on the topic of the beauty myth, I’ve naturally come closer to adopting a body neutrality mentality; after all, it’s hard to want to play a game that you know is rigged.”
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The scourge of the decaf fiend: thou shalt be unproductive
“I must confess / I have been sitting at this corner table for two whole hours / writing my Senior Thesis™ / but I was just pretending…”
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The Sunset Art: Thoughts on Photography and Travel
“For Sontag, photography gives the amateur tourist photographer a sense of control— but superficial control. Knowledge— but superficial knowledge. In an unfamiliar, foreign environment the camera offers the illusive feeling of possession and command, in a very real sense empowering the photographer to take something of the place with them as their own.”
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Princeton Curling’s Spectacular Loss to UW-Superior, Keyword Superior
“At first, there is devastation; then, denial; then, anguish; then, acceptance and understanding of the bright side of life: after all, this was the gold medal game—and a silver medal at the most well-attended college curling event in the country is nothing to sneeze at.”
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On Fanning Flames and Drowning: A Reflection of Grief and Fury
“I cannot unlearn that my fury is not just something that sparked and never died. It is born out of mourning. “
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Jack and/or Jill: Full Design
This week, the Nass conducts a social experiment on BeReal, predicts the next 70 campus construction projects, and determines which famous philosophers are totally like 10/10 cuties.
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70 of Princeton’s Next Big Construction Projects: A Nass List
PRINCETON BUILDS: A doomsday bunker, an embassy for Bumble ambassadors, a cold brew river, and 67 other projects.
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THE PHILOSOPHICAL FIVE (my very objective opinion on the best and worst philosophers of all time)
“Also known as the father of all philosophy (daddy?) Socrates is the original playboy. Everyone, and I mean everyone, fangirls over him.”
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We Added 200 Strangers on BeReal, and We’re Never Opening the App Again
“Hypothesis: people our age around the world are alone during a significant portion of their waking hours. And hypothetically, BeReal is the perfect observational device.”
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On electromagnetism, bodies, and the nature of overthinking
“We sit together, our two bodies close, but not touching. They say that opposites attract, but there is a void between us, a siren.”
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Jane’s Addiction
“She saw eyes that enjoyed staring, ears that indulged in eavesdropping, and a mind that ruthlessly analyzed what her senses discerned. She saw hands that took these findings and selected food accordingly, cut food accordingly, chewed food accordingly.”
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Raising Interest Rates: Full Design
This week, the Nass gets its heart broken, writes fiction about disordered eating, and logs delirious entries in a Dream Journal.
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A Haibun for our Fallen Leaves
“Short breaths are suspended like smoke, naked against the frail air.”
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The Glass Cracked
When the glass on a train cracks, strange and impossible things reveal themselves to the protagonist in this speculative fiction piece.
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A Trip to the Orangerie
“In many ways my trip thus far had been haunted by Benjamin; every glimpse of the underground Metro lights, the carefully planned streets, the dimly lit bookstores brought some passage, some fragment of prose from his works to mind.”