Nobody likes to be blissfully enjoying a weekend Ratty lunch only to be met with the sight of someone with whom they have less than pleasant memories. More times than I’m willing to admit, I’ve cursed this school for being too small and side-eyed my friend when we passed a few select people. The ...
At what point do you take a look at your new friend (the one you met in class just a couple of weeks ago) and say: “Want to grab a meal?”
“…and once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.”―Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Helen, you should call yéye more often.” My father says this one afternoon as he loads the dishwasher, in a tone so normal it’s as if it is an afterthought.
Tick tock, tick tock, make your bed, go to class, click-clack on the keyboard, dinner. Stop, take a breath. See a friend? Hug, catch up, chitchat, chat shit, shit, it’s late and I did no work, click-clack, click-clack click-clack click-clack—there’s laughter outside and I have to chase it!—and ...
I find myself in an ebb and flow state of mind—wandering in and out of consciousness—one part of me here and one in my hometown. Feelings like this regularly shadow me throughout late summer, the seasons unraveling into one until every part of my routine is twisting and turning without reason to ...
It’s quiet here. It’s too early for cicadas, but I swear I hear them. I hear them intermingling with three girls sharing the highlights of their weekends and the rush of engines on the roads nearby. A school bus, followed by a motorcycle, followed by a minivan. I hear their engines hum, pause, rev, ...
Is Chappell Roan unfit to be famous? Some think we are currently witnessing the downfall of 2024’s most beloved pop princess—an artist too fresh to the industry to be able to handle the pitfalls of mainstream success. To others, these controversies are just the expected bumps in the road paving ...
TW: sexual harassment
TW: sexual harassment
At the sand-colored strip mall near my elementary school, wedged between the dry cleaners and ice cream parlor, was my sister and I’s childhood playground. On long summer days or rainy afternoons, my mother would park beneath the dusty sycamores and walk us across the asphalt to the glass storefront. ...
Like any true academic weapon on a Monday night, I found myself doom-scrolling through a multitude of questionable dances and Biden x Trump ship edits, mostly accompanied by Chappell Roan’s “Hot to Go.” However, on this particular night, I stumbled across a corner of the internet that destroyed ...
If you did not know Charli xcx before, you certainly do now. Simply put, BRAT is everywhere. Literally. It’s a viral dance on TikTok. It’s an unlikely part of a major presidential campaign. It’s on CNN and Fox News. Your mom knows about it—maybe your grandma too. Your 13-year-old cousin is all ...
Being an English and Literary Arts concentrator makes up about 40 percent of my personality. But as soon as classes start, I suddenly forget how to read. Very rarely do I find the time or motivation to pick up a book for leisure.
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