Guard 1: Did you watch the Rutgers game?
Guard 2: Of course!
Guard 1: Really?
Guard 2: No.
Overheard while exiting Firestone
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Nothing Like Mom’s Cooking: Reflections from Professor Mommy’s Daughter
A reflection on the nourishment our mothers provide, both physical and emotional.
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Contrasts
“stars and stripes / color the flag of my birth country / and I am found buried in the pages / of its history”
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Inside Princeton’s Underground Student-Run Restaurant
A prix-fixe, a poached pear, and a labor of love.
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Vibe Crafter: Full Design
This week the Nass learns the lingo of NBA internet fandom, reflects on terror in public transit, and explores the secret world of dorm fine dining.
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To See Something And Say Something
“To ask people to tell what’s suspicious and unusual is to expose innocent individuals to a system that constantly profiles and projects fear, to always assume the worst.”
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Something Real Fishy: Friendship, Twitter, and the Limits of the Dictionary
A personal take on the dialect of NBA internet fandom.
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Things So Obvious They Almost Make No Sense: Defamiliarization and the Default in Megan Hunter’s The End We Start From
“I couldn’t discern an agenda, political, spiritual, or otherwise, and yet the novel felt anything but aimless. Primarily, it read and resonated like poetry.”
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If a Princeton Student Transferred Schools but Kept the Princeton Ego
Speculative fiction with a dash of entitlement.
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Dreams of Ghosts
“Below, the sea was moonlight, bright as commercial breakfast milk. The tide pulled forward and back, morse code telling me all the ways to escape the sleepy town.”