Fearful fun-seeker: “We can’t go to a dive bar. What if somebody asks me to arm wrestle?”
Sympathetic friend: “That will probably happen.”
Fearful fun-seeker: “Fine. Let me get a pump in.”
Overheard while making evening plans
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SEPARATION RITUALS
We are in the magic-room, as she is calling it. I write that down. She is cute and funny, even now. But of course she is. She calls it a sanctuary. I write that down too. My mom is working so hard On making this place beautiful. She is not here. …
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The Meaning of Life According to My Inbox
Recently, my email account has doubled as my journal. I can’t stop writing emails. Not the usual, 10-liner, meeting set-up emails, but lengthy, rambling, floods of words in which I entirely reveal my personal vulnerabilities to recipients I have never met before. My subject line: “Advice for a Graduate.” My goal: to gather the instructions…
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Below the Belt
A Nass writer details the struggles Muslim students face using university restroom facilities.
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Root Canal: Full Design
This week, the Nass looks deep into the construction of cavities, finding a world where the dance is improvisational and the restrooms are mindful.
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Reveries of Bloomberg Basement
If you venture into the depths of Bloomberg Hall, along a gloomy corridor that echoes with the thump of laundry machines, you will find the entrance to Room 044. Just another pale door in a series of pale doors, the unadorned surface gives no indication that this is the portal to a magical realm. Enter…
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PRINCEWATCH
Back from hiatus, PrinceWatch is here to keep campus journalism accountable. This week we’re punching up with this triumph of data analysis: “Top Universities released decisions. Admissions Instagram followers plunged.” (Published April 3rd, 2023) A melodramatic headline that captures the meaningful relationship between cause and effect. Not much to say about this…
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Eating Clubs, A’s, and AI: What Profs Really Think About Us
Princeton, from our professors’ point of view.
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Putting People on Stage: Pursuing Equity Through the Choreographic Process
A senior thesis reimagines the relationship between choreographer and dancer.
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The Construction of Concealment: Princeton’s Geo-Exchange System and Why We Can’t See It
What do we miss when we complain about construction?
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Telescoping Cavity
To telescope, we begin with 300 words, then slice the word count in half for each successive section. We stop when the numbers stop dividing evenly. This week, four Nass writers telescope the word “cavity.” Charlie Nuermberger (cn0260) CW: Suicide It’s really beautiful, under the gas station canopy lights, when snow falls, and…
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Take a Leave of Absence: It’s Easier Than You Think
A Nass writer investigates why and how students take leaves—and what it’s like to be gone.
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For Your Consideration: Full Design
This week, the Nass spends its leave of absence filming movies in Greece, attending tone-deaf plays, and growing an extra hand.
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Orange Juice 1989
“Orange-wet fingers and the acid is on her eyes, on her cheeks, running down with the tears and cheap makeup. My father reaches toward her—she is wearing a black silk headband, and he tries to pull it from her hair to wipe her eyes. She yells at him in Greek and he retracts.”
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