Category: Reflections

Freshman Year From My Childhood Bedroom

“Applying to colleges, I held one core condition: there was no way I was staying in this town.”

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Big Hoe III

A virtual take on the illustrious Nass tradition of spending 24 hours in Frist.

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In Kognito

On the failures of the mental-health training program for Princeton first years.

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Beauty-Sick

“Looking back, I feel the peculiar embarrassment of having been a teenage girl with teenage girl concerns, but the lives and concerns of teenage girls are often dismissed as trivial things, and if I could tell myself at 13 what I know now, I would.”

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Ritardando

A reflection on a longstanding relationship with the violin–and how it has changed.

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The End of Moria?

Looking back on migration-crisis reporting in Greece as a college student.

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Lindner Park

A reflection on yard signs, people-watching, and living in a swing state during the 2020 election.

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College Town

The unexpected return of hundreds of students to Princeton for a remote semester.

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The Incremental Approach

A look at the astonishing career of Ruth Bader Ginsberg.

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Lawn Story: On Grass and Other Marvels

“I was interested in regrowth—what better setting for that pursuit than the lawn, where lavender and hyacinth and rubrum extend their arms beyond their allotted plots?”

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Rethinking Princeton Traditions

On a strange back-to-school season and its unexpected potential for the Class of 2024.

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Despite Everything

“I had resorted to music to help deal with the hopeless
passivity I had subconsciously nurtured, so it was music that shook me awake.”

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