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3/19/25

Overheard@Brown

“I know I cheated on him, but the Holy Spirit told me to do it!”

“I’m upset that Tony Stark isn’t a Christian man, or at least that people think he couldn’t be!”

Hot post- time machine

“There are myriad of reasons to take to the road. To write a new chapter. To leave your home, return, and wonder at everything that’s changed—all odysseys are, after all, attempts at traveling home.”
— AJ Wu, “Journeys in Haibun” 03.17.23

“One night, too dark to read but not wanting to go back to my room, I wandered the perimeter of the library. Reaching a patch of grass, I saw a flash of light, then another, then another. Fireflies, dancing through a grove of trees.”
— Sydney Pearson, “Planted” 03.14.24

Top 10 Breaks

Spring
Dance
“We were on a…” – Ross Geller
a leg!
-ing Bad
-fast
A lucky
Prison
-downs
-ups

3/12/25

Overheard@Brown

“I’m keeping my hazard lights on so people know I have fear.”

“I won’t have sex with you, but I will marry you.”

Hot post- time machine

“I’ll tell my son that every mile his grandparents traveled, they shed more of their skin, sanded down more of their corners, became so small in the soul that they could carry it all in a suitcase, taking with them only their language.”
— Daniel Hu, “Chinese Summer, American Camp” 03.10.23

“As the cycle of seasons returns to summer soon, I think about how far I have come from a year ago. My plans are more ambitious, but I channel my self-doubt into self-determination. What am I doing? is a question of little significance to me as I continue on with my little daily miracles, and as I hold onto my treasure of euphoria.”
— Lynn Nguyen, “Eureka Euphoria” 03.14.24

Top 10 Pies

Day
Cutie
3.14
Key Lime
“Sweetest Pie” by Megan Thee Stallion & Dua Lipa
Boysenberry
Whoopie
Cream
Shepherd’s
Chart

3/5/25

Overheard@Brown

“Not one cavity ever—I’m a dental darling.”

“I defeated hunger. Not world hunger—my own.”

Hot post- time machine

“I don’t have patience for a letter. I don’t like wasting time putting pen to paper or finding a stamp or waiting for USPS to drive past your house. I care about you, and you should know that today.”
— Eleanor Dushin, “I’m Trying to Tell You” 03.7.24

“My most cherished times are spent sprawled on the floors of my friends’ rooms, wrapped in the warmth of the pillows and blankets on their twin XLs as time unravels quietly in the background of our conversations.”
— Katherine Mao, “Restful Rhythms” 03.7.24

Top 10 Awards

post- Top 10 list
Oscars
Razzies
Participation
Teen Choice Award for Best Liplock
5 Big Booms
Bad Sex in Fiction
Employee of the Month
Employee of the Month (SpongeBob SquarePants)
Nickelodeon Kids' Choice

2/26/25

Overheard@Brown

“Has anyone done a bit that’s just Goldilocks and her three bears, but it’s three gay guys?”

“I bet Portland does have Subarus and it’s probably because of the lesbians, not the other way around.”

Hot post- time machine

“Neither boyhood nor girlhood have rung true for me, nor do I think they ever will. I’m stuck, precariously toeing the line between the two, splitting my personality in messy halves and assigning each piece to a side.”
— Audrey Wijono, “Boyhood and Me” 03.10.23

“Fall is the most delicate season. The way the leaves crinkle, changing color so romantically, falling for us to step through like clouds, short-lived and fleeting. The breeze tickling us each time we walk outside without a jacket serves as a reminder of what is to come.”
— Gabi Yuan, “The Delightful Ever Changing of Seasons” 02.29.24

Top 10 Professors

Ms. Frizzle
Plum
Bill Nye
Grace Talusan
Dumbledore
Rashid Zia
Rate My
The one from Dead Poets Society
Neil deGrasse Tyson
X

2/19/25

Overheard@Brown

“Is it supposed to look like this?” “Like no, but is it a crime if it does?”

“It looks crazy with the bisexual lighting in the background.”

Hot post- time machine

“When I sit at her kitchen table, I watch my grandmother toss spice and flavor into her dishes with a crease in her brow, yet a secureness in her motion. Her dishes, organic and sacred, never know measurements, timers, special equipment. Just salt, fat, acid, heat, and love.”
— Ana Vissicchio, “From the Kitchen Table” 02.22.24

“After all, the perfect going-out top is not merely cute; it is completely transformative. The girl with the perfect going-out top is not a mere woman. I see her moving on a crowded dance floor, easily waltzing between friends and strangers as she slinks through conversations without pause.
— Jeanine Kim, “The Perfect Going Out Top” 02.24.23

Top 10 Things Not to Do Over a Long Weekend

Study for physio
Your work
Fly out of Roanoke, Virginia
Your thesis
Drive through a Canadian snowstorm
Trudge through slush
Remove your wisdom teeth
Crash out
Sleep 12 hours
Plan your excuse for missing prod

2/12/25

Overheard@Brown

“Even if he’s gay, I’m first in line, so back off buddy.”

“I wish everyone would invade my personal space.”

Hot post- time machine

“And I imagined what would have happened if I had spoken up, or cussed them out, or screamed, or flipped the table, or punched someone, or at least allowed myself to look angry. I think about this, and I can live vicariously through these fictional women. It is cathartic, and it is freeing.”
— Emily Tom, “The Craze for Feminine Rage” 02.17.23

“I think I want to write something new, something in the style of Anne Carson or maybe Maggie Nelson, but I am light-headed and flighty. I feel pinned like an insect to bedposts with nail polish stains that must be over nine years old.”
— Alissa Simon, “Christmas Adventures in OpenAI” 02.17.23

Top 10 Twenties

Roaring
2048
2016
20/20 vision
Twentieth century
2020
21
Twenty Stories
“20 Something” by SZA
20 Questions

2/5/25

Overheard@Brown

“I feel like pickleball is like Wii tennis.”

“I’ll send you a fax from hell.”

Hot post- time machine

“The caress of those fingers, dangerously cautious yet curious, lead me to believe that I am undeniably desired. How many moments follow the feeling of first love— that subtle mix of fear and pounding rush to experience everything all at once?”
— Gabi Yuan, “The Delicacy of Firsts” 02.08.24

“To be in the ‘middle of nowhere’—a place that has been an important somewhere all along— I think this action may be more ‘advanced’ than any skyscraper we could ever construct.”
— Ellyse Givens, “Into the Woods” 02.17.23

Top 10 People You Didn’t Know Existed Until Last Week

Benson Boone
Bianca Censori
Your Marriage Pact match
Jelly Roll
Abraham Lincoln
The BDH
The 13,000 voting members of The Recording Academy
Luka Dončić
DEI
That MCM professor

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12/06/24

Overheard@Brown

“It was not inappropriate, but it was complex.”

“I got into grammar because I was bullied in middle school, so I was like might as well.”

Hot post- time machine

“Read post-! This magazine changed my life.”
—Kimberly Liu, “Editor’s Note” 12.07.23

“I love the people who make this magazine, who were here before and who are here now and who will be here after I leave.”
—Siena Capone, “Anyway, Don’t Be a Stranger” 12.2.22

Top 10 Mothers

Joe Mama
Joe Maffa
Dance
Other
MILF
of God
Stacy’s
Alex Consani
Beyoncé
Earth

11/20/24

Overheard@Brown

“How do you look hot as Mario, WTF?”

“I woke up and found a zest for life.”

Hot post- time machine

“Declare your care for others, in all its forms—scream it so loudly from the top of College Hill that the ducks by the Pedestrian Bridge feel the water ripple beneath their feathers. Tell people you cherish them until your vocal chords get sore and your lips begin to ache from words of love.”
—Indigo Mudbhary, “On Being Cringe” 12.07.23

“In a world where practically everything is dictated by logic, I view superstitions as a way to keep the magic in our everyday lives.”
—Samira Lakhiani, “Knock on Wood” 12.02.22

Top 10 Things to Give

Thanks
Face
A big wet juicy smooch
Me a break
Tree
Coal
Up
A mouse a cookie
Liberty or death
Hawk Tuah

11/15/24

Overheard@Brown

“Do you think Big Abortion is making placebos?”

“I honestly think that doing psychedelic drugs is the reason I came to Brown.”

Hot post- time machine

“I can be a wanderer, but also find and make myself at home anywhere I go. Thanks to my finger friends, my pockets and my heart are now a whole lot fuller.”
—Ellie Jurmann, “Friends in High-five Places” 11.30.23

“Ghosts are the best fuel for my daydreams. The specters wander in and out of my half memory as I weave threads of fiction and real life together, until I can imagine a whole person who might have lived just so.”
—Mack Ford, “The Ghosts I Call Darling” 11.18.23

Top 10 People to Have on Your Podcast

Hawk Tuah
Serial DMer from Sidechat
One of my exes
Olivia Rodrigo, so you could sing Traitor together
King George III, the Mad King
Maximillian Robespierre
My AP English Literature teacher from high school
President William Howard Taft, who got stuck in a bathtub
Myself from the alternate universe in which the core trauma of my childhood never occurred
JoJo Siwa

11/08/24

Overheard@Brown

“It’s good to meet a writer with an actual job.”

“Your hole is so clean.”

Hot post- time machine

“The smell of rain on the sidewalk. The way flakes of white fall from the sky and leave drops behind on my cheeks instead of staining my lungs gray. The way, each time I step outside, the first thing I notice is nature running circles around me, making itself known.”
—Liza Kolbasov, “As the Leaves Do” 11.11.22

“When disclosure of the self exists within a superficial sphere of dressing in a way that’s true to yourself or being proud of the music you listen to regardless of what others think, how can we turn the focus of expression to personhood?”
—Eleanor Dushin, “Am I Still Your Type?” 11.16.23

Top 10 Trader Joe’s Snacks

The guy at cash register #8
Lemon
Tea Tree Tingle Body Wash
Stewy brothy creamy spicy beans
Joe-Joe’s
Pumpkin butter
Trader Ming
Scandinavian Swimmers
Spicy with
Trader Joe’s Chocolatey Coated Chocolate Chip Cookie Dunkers

11/01/24

Overheard@Brown

“Dude, do you like socks?”

“She’s really into textures.”

Hot post- time machine

“In my short time here, I know that every one of my delusions, desires, and dreams in every world, universe, and multiverse all connect to create the truest version of myself.”
— Gabi Yuan, “Reinventing” 11.09.23

“I will always welcome a story about my past. And for my first tale, I have a souvenir that retells it to me every day.”
— Marin Warshay, “Woven into the Seams” 11.04.22

Top 10 Write-Ins

Joe Biden
Joe Mama
Joe Maffa
Hawk Tuah girl
The little one from Boygenius
Neil Mehta
The Beatles
Rashid Zia
The Rizzler
Onika Burger

10/25/24

Overheard@Brown

“Talk amongst yourself while I tackle and brutalize the technology.”

“It’s like I’m the benchwarmer for the polycule”

Hot post- time machine

“A tale in fragments can endure eons; I am a scattered clay piece of an ancient epoch. My ancestors are spread elsewhere, but I know the story of my mother, my brother, and especially me—even in its broken pieces.”
— Leanna Bai, “On Fragmentation And My Disappearance” 10.28.22

“In the midst of this season of self-discovery, love arrived, quietly, letting itself in through the back door. I currently cherish someone very deeply and am cherished by them in my entirety. Just when I was least expecting it, love snuck up on me, like a tiger in the night, terrifying but beautiful. As the leaves fall, so do I.”
— Indigo Mudbhary, “It’s Okay to Love Multiple People” 11.2.23

Top 10 Family Members

Your mom
Stacy’s mom
Grandfather clock
Cousin Greg
737a Hope St., Providence, RI
Brother eughhh
Unc
My brother in Christ
Mister Sister
Father, Son, Holy Ghost

10/18/24

Overheard@Brown

“Every group has a Beyoncé and every group has a Lea Michele.”

“I’m in an American studies seminar and everyone wears docs and has septum piercings.”

Hot post- time machine

“After all, how do you let yourself grow roots, become entangled, when your time in a place has an end date? When you’re certain to have to leave, and don’t know where you’ll be going next, or how long you’ll stay there? It feels safer to appear and disappear unnoticed.”
— Liza Kolbasov, “Haunted Grounds” 10.26.23

“So maybe magic is not reserved exclusively for the naive minds of kindergarteners. Maybe it rests most abundantly in the things unassuming and reckless and unspoken, and it is just up to us to find it.”
— Sarah Kim, “Meadowmount, Music, and Magic” 10.21.22

Top 10 Eds

Copy-eds
-Stem
Hardy
Early decision
Erectile dysfunction
Extraterrestrial if you don’t know how to spell
My great grandpa
The one who is friends with Edd n Eddy
Page Board
-ward Cullen

10/11/24

Overheard@Brown

“If it quacks like a girl car and it waddles like a girl car then it’s a girl car.”

“What’re your top Ed’s? Mine are Ed Sheeran then Ed Discussion.”

Hot post- time machine

“And when the dance is learned, when it is ingrained in the very fibers of her muscles, she becomes larger than herself—a surprise to us and even to herself. She becomes something beyond.”
— Mack Ford, “A Tangle of Movement” 10.19.23

“As I held on to the hug, all the colors and words and shapes and sounds of that moment held on to me with a symphony of voices that sounded like ‘you are here you are here you are here.’ I am here, gladly.”
— Joyce Gao, “Detaching from Detachment” 10.14.22

Top 10 Hard Launch Captions

Virginia is for lovers
It’s been you all along
This and some premarital
Siblings or dating
First date kinda nervous
Thing 1 and Thing 2
Long-distance, low-commitment, casual girlfriend
Made it out of the situationship
Hard launch
I’m with stupid ⇒

10/04/24

Overheard@Brown

“I want my abortion done by a nun.”

“My canvas post really pushes the boundaries of coherence.”

Hot post- time machine

“Because language is the only thing that has never felt like a waste of time. So you will leap into the ocean—or you will let yourself fall—over and over again, and in the end you will write about it all. You will warp your words, like Pygmalion does his clay, until you convince yourself that your creation is as good as the real thing.”

— Emily Tom, “From Here, You Can See Everything” 10.7.22

“I know the future holds many more new exit numbers for me. Everywhere I’ve ever called home will stay tucked away, but just within memory’s reach when I need to feel the comfort of belonging.”
— Samiha Kazi, “The Road Back Home” 10.5.23

Top 10 Reasons you left Harvard v. Brown early

Laundry timer went off
Bored.
To read post-
No hope
Conscientious objecting
Got scared
Fell in a hole covered with leaves
Sneaky link
Dog ate my homework
Drank too much!

9/25/24

Overheard@Brown

“Using etc. is a shitty little move.”

“No one can make me dance like a jester.”

Hot post- time machine

“It’s a hazy, remote memory in my mind, but it’s there. The lingering song of a raunchy salsa band wafting through the streets. The wandering stray dogs with matted fur. The white cross of the stone cathedral. Each direction births a new recollection, unwieldy and uncertain, yet unmistakably there.”

— Laura Tamayo, “Exile” 09.30.2022

“But home isn’t a place you find, is it? It’s a place you build. On this strange and beautiful campus, I still feel fragile and leaky. I cry so often. But I feel it sometimes, eating with somebody outside on a sunny day, learning to dance in Sayles, going on walks by the river— little glimmers of hope.”

— Anonymous, “First Year Blues” 09.28.2023

Top 10 Pops

Privately owned public spaces
Corn
Socket
My dad
Soda (in the Midwest)
-pers
Snap, Crackle
Joints
-tarts
Smoke (RIP)

9/18/24

Overheard@Brown

“Do you think it’s rude to bring a bookbag to a darty?”

“I have never seen such a well- crafted group of annoying people.”

Hot post- time machine

“The crowd mentality, the one affecting the coat population on campus today, needs to be one of inclusivity and support, under whatever circumstances or for whatever reason.”

— Sean Toomey, “The Tan in Man” 09.23.2022

“The water awoke myself to my body, a thing so funnily forgotten. The coldness pressed against my limbs so that I could feel every hair I’d always pondered shaving off, and in the full of my throat a fresh thud of heartbeats gathered.”

— Elena Jiang, “On Coastlines and Other Beginnings” 09.21.2023

Top 10 brats

Charli xcx
Bratwurst
Bratz dolls
The B(ratty)
Veruca Salt
Bratislava
Brat Pack
Queen Elizabrat
My ungrateful shit-eating sister
Bratatouille

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12/07

Overheard@Brown

“Is it called Foot Locker because shoes are feet locks?”

“If I’m in a house that’s on fire, I’m already butt-ass naked.”

Top 10 Pre-s

Fresh Fruit (duh)
-lude to the Afternoon of a Faun
The kind with alcohol
Star Wars I-III
Mature babies
Marital sex
Cum
-gnant
-nup
-sents!!

Hot post- time machine

“Bite into Fresh Fruit!”

—Fresh Fruit First Editorial Board, “Editor’s Note” 2.15.73

“post- will concern itself with coverage of the art forms that shape our culture, the personalities that define our popular taste, and the issues that demand discussion”

—post- First Editorial Board, “Editor’s Note” 2.04.00

11/30

Overheard@Brown

“Is it called a grandfather clock because it looks like he’s swinging his penis?”

“I’m an avid not-doer. I hate doing shit so much.”

Top 10 Places that should be Sound Towns

Santa Claus, IN
The Bermuda Triangle
Six Flags Great Adventure
Pound Town
My room
Your room ;)
Bikini Bottom
Providence, RI
Whoville
Cupertino, CA (this is a call to action for Apple Music for next year, xo)

Hot post- time machine

“Perhaps building a home means, instead, freely giving pieces of ourselves away, leaving them in the unexpected corners of the world. And maybe we cannot ever truly build homes anyway. Only places we call home.”

—Kaitlan Bui, “In the Places We Once Called Home 12.3.21

“On nights I’m feeling particularly sentimental, it feels cruel that the conventional life path is set up this way: carefully knitting ourselves into the fabric of a place, only to be asked after a set amount to extricate ourselves and start again.”

—Siena Capone, “Anyway, Don’t Be a Stranger” 12.2.2022

11/16

Overheard@Brown

“I could probably euthanize you tonight, if you wanted. I have a lot of drugs.”

“He’s my boyfriend AND he’s a Yu-Gi-Oh champion.”

Top 10 Thanksgiving Dinner Conversation Topics

Your post-grad plans
Hamilton Roblox Simulator
Roe v. Wade
Physician-assisted suicide
Your new piercing
Your aunt’s ex-husband
Switching from pre-med to Medieval Studies
Your favorite class, Pornography
Telltale signs of a failing marriage
Lil Nas X

Hot post- time machine

“Green thumbs are not green but a dark, sunkissed shade of brown, speckled lovingly with sunspots and creased deeply and irreversibly with age.”

—Audrey Wijono, “King of Fruit” 11.18.22

“The reality of life—as distressing and unsettling as it may be—is that very little happens for a reason. There is no irrepressible plan or automatic response, as we observe in biological processes. There are often events for which we can find no justification, no sanity or sense. Bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people.”

—Zoe Creane, “Facing Death” 11.19.21

11/9

Overheard@Brown

“He literally is different. He is circumcised.”

“My biggest regret is that I’ve never been a sea urchin.”

Top 10 Reasons Why CAB Crashed during PreReg

Mice chewed the wires
Stopped to take its BeReal
Senior Prank
Couldn’t do its Shibboleth verification
Cracked under pressure
Lied on its resume
Midterm season burnout
Got shy >.<
Mom forgot to remind it
Set alarm for 12am instead of 12pm

Hot post- time machine

“I can recall the way my life began only through stories I’ve been told. I have the facts, but have to infer the emotions. Where does a story reside when its physical proof and its memory are separated and can never coexist?”

—Marin Warshay, “Woven into the Seams” 11.4.22

“Waveless, windless, starless night. The loon shatters that dark-nothing, adding more breath until its yodel falls into vast looping echoes, painting textures and distances on the black canvas before me.

—Isaac Eng, “On Loon Time” 11.5.21

11/2

Overheard@Brown

“I always wanted to be colorblind as a kid so I couldn’t be drafted.”

“I bet pacifier cigarettes would really calm a baby down.”

Top 10 Beans

Smol ??
Vanilla
Vegetarian Refried
Clitoria (butterfly pea)
Chilling
Jelly
-ie BABIES
The big reflective one in Chicago
…there, done that
Cannellini

Hot post- Time Machine

“I am but a freckle on a leaf, burdened to evergreen beneath the flaming sun. Freckle in the face of life, power in the face of oblivion. I don’t know why I am or, rather, why I keep trying to be.”

—Nélari Figueroa-Torres, “Raising Monarchs” 10.28.22

“Then, when we made acquaintance with the art that materialized before us, that beckoned us into the mysterious basement halls and seated us next to strangers, we lacked any other excuse for meeting, we became adamant about the community of seeing.”

— Madeline Canfield, “The Art of Reopening” 10.29.21

10/26

Overheard@Brown

“An umbrella is also the optimal weapon.”

“I'm rewatching this lecture capture for a lecture I attended. I be nodding so often it’s kinda embarrassing, especially at 2x speed.”

Hot post- time machine

“Whenever someone learns my name, they make it sound smoother than it really is. Like turning a square into a circle, cutting away all the edges. It had too many of them anyway.”

—Magdalena del Valle, “A Name with Room to Grow: Part Two” 10.22.21

“Maybe, when we grow up, it’s not so much that we learn who we are, but that we learn that we have never had any idea who we were in the first place. Is this all I am, all I ever was? A person who worries a lot?”

—Liza Kolbasov, “To Hold in My Hands” 10.21.22

Top 10 Scary Sentences

Death
Run-on
“Where my hug at?”
Boo!
“We need to talk”
(Over Instagram DM) Hey girlie!
Your instructor has released grade changes and new comments for Midterm Exam.
“We should get coffee”
“Do you want the good news or bad news first”
Red rum (read it backwards)

10/19

Overheard@Brown

“If you don’t have what it takes to be a stripper, you don’t have what it takes to be in investment banking.”

“I don’t use mechanical pencils; they’re for people who are out of touch with nature.”

Hot post- time machine

“As I held on to the hug, all the colors and words and shapes and sounds of that moment held on to me with a symphony of voices that sounded like “you are here you are here you are here.” I am here, gladly.”

—Joyce Gao, “Detaching From Detachment” 10.14.22

“Through warm cinnamony conversations, we unravel layers of ourselves. In the middle of the crowd, I speak and listen myself into existence. A seemingly de-individualized coffee chain becomes, for a moment, a world all our own.”

—Liza Kolbasov, “Coffee for Here” 10.15.21

Top 10 10s

Top 10s
Things I Hate About You
One Tea House
You ;)
-nis
Commandments
Amendments to the Constitution (aka the Bill of Rights)
Ben
October 10, 1010 (10/10/10)
-nessee (cuz ur the only 10 i seeeeeeeeee)

10/5

Overheard@Brown

“I don’t know if there’s any good time to say this, but I’m allergic to milk.”

“I’ve been to Albany, NY and London, England, and Albany is better.”

Hot post- time machine

“I wish I had all of their memoirs. But since I don’t, I cut out space in my personal history for these unknown ones and fill it with imaginary women: women who loved. Who stayed. Who left. Who saved themselves, so I could be here, writing them down.”

—Siena Capone, “How I Read Your Mother” 10.08.21

—Emily Tom, “From Here, You Can See Everything” 10.07.22

Top 10 Joes

Maffa ;)
MAMA
Sleepy
Sloppy
Trader!
Carberry (of psychoceramic fame)
Cuppa
-Jo Siwa
Alwyn (someone pls check on him)
Jesus’s step-dad

9/27

Overheard@Brown

“If it wasn’t for QuestBridge I’d be here on a D1 scholarship for instigating.”

“Unabomber? I barely even know her.”

Hot post- time machine

“Somehow, we collide at these exact moments, in these exact ways. Whether or not we’ve met before, somehow we spark an iteration of love. Isn’t that a beautiful idea, that we’re all in love with little bits of each other?”

—Kaitlan Bui, “Head Over Heels” 10.01.21

“I am home, perched in a rusted wooden chair with scars of use across it. Tomorrow’s homework is sprawled on my floor. I am home, yet the isolation strengthens. The house I’ve grown in feels just as far away as the lands I originated from.”

— Laura Tamayo, “Exile” 09.30.22

Top 10 Leaf-s

Japanese Maple
Without saying goodbye
Tea
The ones of grass by Walt Whitman
Kkaennip
Catnip
…a message after the beep
through a book
Eucalyptus (but specifically if u are a koala)
Blower

9/21

Overheard@Brown

“I have a thing for females with their nipples out, I feel like it’s an accessory.”

“I think being a hater has protected my peace”

Hot post- time machine
“Everything inside you beats: the thunderclap of your heart, the shuddering of your breath, the quivering of your stomach. It all beats. Like wings. Like things longing for freedom, longing for escape from this prison of flesh, blood, and skin that you call your body.”

—Daniel Hu, “A Glossary of Terms for 旦” 9.23.22

“We think of spring as beautiful, watching the earth as it slowly reawakens from its hibernation and retains its summertime vibrancy. We don’t consider how painful this transition could be; we expect beauty to simply bloom at the snap of a finger.”

—Ellyse Givens “Changing My Seasons” 9.24.21

Top 10 Things You Say You’ll Do This Semester But Definitely Won’t Get Around To

Intramural volleyball
Write the entire syllabus for an independent study you and your friends are always talking about putting together
Readings
Joining the niche club your acquaintance is running, thanklessly, once again this year
Get dinner with that one friend you make small talk with
Go to the Nelson (consistently)
Read Today@Brown
Get your nose pierced
Drastically change your wardrobe (finally start dressin’)
Eat the correct number of vegetables per day (at least 2)