Beautiful girlfriend: I thought you liked me for my personality.
Realistic boyfriend: It’s okay.
Overheard on Firestone A Floor
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Mother Tongue
A power imbalance mediated by language, a relationship done and undone in the webs of translation.
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Encounters With Concussion Culture
“In my desperate search for a ‘cure’ for my concussion, I experimented with the outermost fringes of the medical world: the truly punk-rock subculture of medical science.”
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Tadao Ando, ma and Me
“Walking through French Baroque palaces-turned-museums and pushing through crowds at the New York Met is a traditional, storied cultural method of viewing Great Masters hanging in gilded frames on the walls. Walking into the Monet room at the Chichu Art Museum in Naoshima, Japan, however, is more like visiting a shrine.”
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Rest is Peace
Reflections on a national tragedy, on a fractured window in a palace in time.
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Did banning first-years from the Street during Frosh Week do more harm than good?
“It’s been over a month since the night of September 10th, but the effects of the ICC’s decision have lasted far beyond Frosh Week. These effects raise the following question: Did the ICC’s decision to ban frosh from the Street help in the long run?”
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Sisterhood, in Perspective
Some things are not always how they seem (particularly when the Prince writes about them).
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Gifts from a Little Train
A love letter to the (temporarily) retired port of Princeton.
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Orange Key, But Spookier
“Our desire to have a spooky and unique Halloween experience was further fulfilled when we briefly thought we saw a ghost. In actuality, it was just a kid standing outside of Bent Spoon shrouded in a cloud of his own Juul smoke.”