There's truly one thing in the world that frustrates me more than the current state of American politics: Roblox's viral multiplayer dress-up simulator, Dress to Impress. Whether during a particularly monotonous period of lecture or a restful moment of Mock Trial practice, I find myself consistently ...
The vision board that hangs crookedly on my dorm wall has seen its fair share of wear and tear. Its corners are wrinkled from traveling cross-country in my backpack. A little too heavy for its tape, from time to time the vision board falls off the cinder blocks, and I wake up to it facedown on my windowsill. ...
This winter is the first I have spent entirely on the East Coast. I come from the sunny beaches of Los Angeles, where 50-degree weather is enough for us to break out our warmest layers.
Imagine your text messages were for sale. Imagine a girl, much younger than the usual patron of an antique store, digging through a box of your most intimate correspondences. Imagine she buys them, takes them home, and tries to piece together what you might have been trying to say—who you might have ...
The road between Western and non-Western culture diverges at several points. Most notably, it splits at the core values of individualism and collectivism. Placing priority on the well-being of oneself as opposed to the well-being of a family or community shapes fundamental societal structures and traditions. ...
The universal mind is a metaphysical concept that claims all beings in the universe share a common consciousness. Though only speculation, it is an idea that is as fascinating as any other postulation about how our infinitely large and mysterious world truly operates. That implies everything from water ...
1. In game theory, players are assumed to be rational actors, meaning they make the “move” that best benefits them given the choices of other players. That’s why, in economics classes, you draw tree diagrams, starting at the very end and working backward, allowing players to evaluate every ...
A table, a desk covered with magazines and loose sheets of paper, posters calling for revolution. These are the set pieces for Susan Glaspell’s one-act play The People, which tells the story of a “radical and poor” newspaper and its staff as they stumble toward a more hopeful future. It’s a ...
I’m running down the beach with a girl who’s never seen the Atlantic. The sky is blue and unrelenting. Our hands burn with ice from where we dipped them in the waves. When the January wind blows, it bites hard into the droplets crystallizing on our fingertips. It’s your first time on the East ...
At the start of school, everyone said they had moved out of their homes to come to Rhode Island. I didn't move much. Two suitcases: a few sweaters, sheets, New Balances, a bottle of wine that was finished in a week. Toiletries. My home was in Connecticut. It was close, so close that I didn't bring much. ...
In the glow of a mid-February twilight, as falling snow dusted the lining of my coat, I walked on water.
I open one eye and peer down toward her hands. Her shaggy, black hair has grown longer, the uneven ends resting across the front of her shoulders. The patina white yarn is stretched across her lap. While her face is not in view, I know her mouth rests closed, lips pressed gently together. Her eyes are ...
For the past two weeks, my roommate has been making kombucha at home. As I’ve observed the process and sampled the batches at each stage, I’ve gathered some notes about this particular art form.
I don’t believe in signs, but then again maybe I do.
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