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Am I in the Mood?
Originally published as an “At Two Swords Length” in The Blue and White. Illustration by Oonagh Mockler. I just noticed that he’s wearing ripped skinny jeans. It’s over. I should be turned on right now, but I absolutely am not. On top of that, he cracked his knuckles rather distressingly two minutes ago, pulling on…
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Chalkboard Stalker: Free Lessons from Empty College Classrooms
It has become a tradition of mine to wander around campus on the weekends in search of an empty classroom. I roam, popping my head into each room of Hamilton, or if I’m feeling classy, Pupin. It’s a desire that grows in springtime. Eager to escape shafted apartments and dorm lounges, I search for a…
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Anywhere But Here
“are u coming?” Inspired look at Columbia’s Battle of the Bands I’ve always thought of Battle of the Bands as the climactic event in every Disney Channel Original movie–where tensions come to a head and the final confrontation between good and evil plays out (think Camp Rock, Freaky Friday, Lemonade Mouth). Unfortunately, when Columbia held its…
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In Loving Memory
Reading Riverside Park’s Benches On a meditative walk through Riverside Park, I came to the realization that a lot of people are dead. I was reading the small metal plaques that commemorate various West Side characters, performing a zigzag maneuver to examine each label on the facing benches. I felt the weight of the tributes…
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A Letter About the End of the World, Written in 2018
The following is an essay, in letter form, written to the teacher of my high school Utopia/Dystopia Fiction class. I dove into the material of the course, seeing so much of myself in these narratives of destruction and isolation. Reading it now, I understand the sense of connection I felt towards the apocalypse. It was…
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