Senior girl #1: “Yeah, I don’t want to live out of my parents’ basement.”
Senior girl #2: “Your parents made you live in the basement!?”
Overheard in Firestone, discussing post-grad plans
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Dogs Out: Full Design
This week, the Nass invents a new major, sings the blues, and asks what the end of affirmative action means for Princeton students of color.
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Olivia Rodrigo’s Sponsored “get him back!” Video Fails to Be Iconic
Does Olivia Rodrigo have more to give than GUTS?
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Why Am I Still a Statistic?
“While I believe in the pipe dream that colleges should give each student, no matter how sparkly, the same care and attention, my more grounded argument is this: Why does worthiness stop being ‘holistic’ after students of color have been accepted to college?”
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Chimp Kid
“I had an itinerary for running away, and I was behind schedule. The sun was catching up.”
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Barbie Bubble: How Leaving Princeton For New York Took Me Off the Shelf
“Displays of public indecency jolted me more than I’d like to admit. Living in the city this summer, I felt I was experiencing patriarchy as I had as a little girl—as something new.”
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Lac de Sainte-Croix
Spontaneity escapes me, I swim in fear of unlikely tsunamis, or phantasmic beasts. I swim with a raincoat on, protecting my words from the world. My ears tinged with the muffled sounds of laughter. My body quaking under the temple of thoughts I’ve built. I find myself in a canyon of…
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Barbie Pink and Rani Pink: Crushed Under Corporate Feminism
“Adapting Marx on capitalism, a character in the film notes that ‘Kenland contains the seeds of its own destruction.’ Well, so does Barbie.”
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A Case for Disgust
“And yet, God introduces Adam and Eve. Around them, creatures dance and indulge and huddle and purge. Birds shit humans. Dying men fart birds. He treats euphoria and terror with the same technical perfection, blurring the line between a familiar Earth and an alien world”.
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The Children’s Book That Hurt Me Most: Three Experts Discuss
A Nass writer seeks closure for Each Kindness, a children’s book without a resolution.
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Godless
“The smell of age-old dust rushes towards you, as you look and imagine how many were forgiven for their trespasses. Against whom?”