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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The Sickness/Hastalık/Die Krankheit/بیماری/La Enfermedad
A multilingual short story exploring one’s thoughts while at the gym.
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Please leave a voicemail, I’m out of the wheelhouse
“Mysticism twists herself in circles, gnawing at her purple train..”
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Everything Everywhere Should Watch this Movie
“Everything Everywhere managed to accomplish authentic storytelling, complex character relationships, and a three-part plot structure in just over two hours, a feat that I did not think was possible.”
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Rumination
“I think often about this evening, and what my friend as trying to tell me. Something about appearances, how things seldom are how they seem? But this is too banal, and she is clever.”
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Terrariums, Tolstoy, and Tasty Burgers: What Our Profs Really Think About Us
The candid opinions and hot takes of Princeton faculty members.
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Thesis Fairy: Full Design
This week the Nass lives vicariously, vents to mom, and learns what professors really think of students.
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The Rains of Macondo: Relevance, Our Country Friends, and the Literature of the Pandemic
“The rain described by García Márquez seemed compellingly similar to the virus that had upended my own life and the lives of so many others: impersonal, unrelenting, and showing no sign of ending any time soon.”
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My Mother, the Dumping Ground
“I love my mother, but how is anyone supposed to respond to an endless bucket of support?”
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Major Dilemma: Full Design
This week the Nass thinks like a dog, dances in verse, and reflects on Declaration Day.
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Secondary Exposure
“Whatever the master could offer, it would represent just one millionth of the dog’s unreciprocated love.”