Overheard in Forbes 162

On Brainrot

Mar 5, 2026

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Soa Andriamananjara

in Essays

Notes on shallow laughter and shortcuts to thinking.
Unwanted Houseguest

Mar 5, 2026

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Anelise Chun, Nazareth Napper

in Cartoons
On Jackets

Mar 5, 2026

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Momo Sonoda

in Essays

On the necessity of jackets, and the enduring original chill.
Babysitting

Mar 5, 2026

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Sophia McNamara

in Poetry

You sleep fretfully, stirring up the buttermilk air. It’s been through your lungs and mine. You’re grasping and grasping, with hands plump and rosy. For hours you’d screamed, straining and messing my hair until exhausted. I notice us in the windowpane and let my neck slacken and chin fall forward. A mahogany…
Animal Kingdom: Full Design

Feb 26, 2026

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nassauweekly

in Full Designs

Pick up a copy around campus, or view the full design here!
Letter From The Editor

Feb 26, 2026

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Sasha Rotko

in Letter from Editor

Dear friends, Antoine Roquentin stared at the roots of a tree and thought about his own superfluity, denied and generated simultaneously the concept of existence. My own mind is a little limited in comparison; I stare at something I hope to understand and, over time, my thinking degenerates. I wonder how my dog with…
The Political Bug

Feb 26, 2026

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Leia Pei

in Second Look

Why Princeton neuroscience professor Sam Wang is running for Congress.
Proof of Life

Feb 26, 2026

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Callisto Lim

in Fiction

“Since then, I’ve begun to feel slightly disturbed, certainly more so than I used to, when these flashes of the outside world get through the gates. An antenna had sprouted out of my skull, sending surges of electricity through my nerves whenever it detected an aberration.”
Noble Lessons From Airplane Nuts and Washi Tape

Feb 26, 2026

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Mia Mann-Shafir

in Essays

On the emergent qualities of ubiquitous things.
I Let Myself Fall

Feb 26, 2026

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Alba Mastromatteo

in Fiction

“They will dig at our bones as we did the dinosaurs’. And when they find yours and my bones twisted up in each other, they will create a great creature out of us.”
The Soul Before Style

Feb 26, 2026

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Livia Shneider

in Essays

From the universal lettering of Bauhaus to Gaga dance, on art as silent revolution.
Wind Runs Through It

Feb 26, 2026

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Riley Pan

in Essays

Contending with tragedies, one at a time.
Cherry

Feb 26, 2026

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Lola Horowitz

in Fiction

“Without telling her mother, Antonia bought her first Summer Fridays after a tanless summer spent marinating in a boardwalk pizza shop with dough-crusted fingernails and a horrendous lime green apron, getting tipped in pennies and the occasional seashell.”
Chats

Feb 26, 2026

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Alpha Zhang

in Fiction

“Suppose Father had gone to heaven. Wasn’t he born there, then, again? Every birth, thus, was a death. A death from nothingness.”
Surviving Suburbia: Places Worth the Uber Ride

Feb 26, 2026

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Arianna Huang

in Nass Recommends

In suburbia, there isn’t much to do except go out to eat. Here are some spots a little further from campus that are worth the fifteen-dollar Uber.

Prospective English major in Calc I: When I factor something, I just like… orgasm.