Category: Campus

Soracte Ode

“And do not spurn
sweet love, my boy, or the dancefloor
while senior woes don’t cloud your sunny day.”

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When Tigerhub Goes Down

The twenty-one hours to himself during the day aren’t so bad, but the three hours at night are paralyzing. He always tells himself, in the midst of particularly productive days, that he’ll be able to finally start doing things during the night, but when the time comes he’s scared of going out.

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The Princeton Runway

Bothering half-celebrities, severely.

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A Fragile Peace

Commentary on Anna Kimmel’s “you’ve heard it before | you’ll hear it again” and suicide across college campuses

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D-V-Dizzle Televizzle

These days you can find a DVD box set for just about any television series you’ve ever loved. And yet, some gems continue to elude us – the long-defunct MTV shows The Head and Buzzkill come to mind.

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Stop Labeling the Trees

An open letter to the University.

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Puzzles at Princeton

Puzzle Club’s beginning and future.

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Encomium Morae: A Declamation

Given Princeton’s academic rigor, I am appalled to see that it lacks any formal instruction in my divine art. Rather than forcing tomorrow’s brightest minds to learn my science on the streets, I have resolved to outline a few basic principles.

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Gods of Princeton

In six days God created the heavens and the Earth / but He gave us no way to determine our relative social worth.

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Farmers and Princeton Against Hunger

“Eight-hundred pounds of beautiful Arkansas Black apples later, we took off our gloves. Some wiped off their foreheads. We squinted at each other in the sun, smiling.”

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The Specter of Foodalism

There is one thing that sets Princeton University apart from all the other institutions I have spent time at. It is the irrational tendency on the part of my fellow students to go where the food is.

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Princeton on Crutches

“There are so many random steps on campus that you don’t notice until they become a barrier. It’s hard to explain the dread that washes over you when you’re trying to crutch from Schultz to Friend in ten minutes and encounter a flight of stairs.”

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