Overthinker: We were the problem.
Underthinker: No, because we were the majority.

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.

Does Olivia Rodrigo have more to give than GUTS?

“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?”




“I had an itinerary for running away, and I was behind schedule. The sun was catching up.”

“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.”

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…

“Adapting Marx on capitalism, a character in the film notes that ‘Kenland contains the seeds of its own destruction.’ Well, so does Barbie.”

“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”.

A Nass writer seeks closure for Each Kindness, a children’s book without a resolution.



“The smell of age-old dust rushes towards you, as you look and imagine how many were forgiven for their trespasses. Against whom?”
Overthinker: We were the problem.
Underthinker: No, because we were the majority.