Category: Reflections

Imperfect Spaces: The Function of Closeness in Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love and on Princeton’s Campus

How space cultivates affection, or quells it.

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The Loaves and the Pitches

The Church of Scientology New York stands right in the center of New York’s Theatre District on West 46th Street. The building blends into the glitzy fare, as loud in its own right as its neighbors—such mainstays of the famously … Read More

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Georgian Roads

After my brother’s ten-minute soliloquy on Karl Popper, I had lost track of his connection with George Soros or Georgia.

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No Shrinking Violets

A recap of Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan’s visits to the orange bubble.

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My Mother, the Dumping Ground

“I love my mother, but how is anyone supposed to respond to an endless bucket of support?”

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Leaving Nassau Hall

There is a part of me that wishes I could say I walked into Eisgruber’s office boldly, that there were no hesitations.

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There’s Something About Alexa

“The commercial ventures into strange ground where Alexa is not just a machine or a service, but a fallible creature.”

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The Date From Hell

Qdoba, baseball, and modern romance.

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Pete Buttigieg’s Gayness is Anachronistic

In which Pete Buttigieg and Twitter users face off.

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Peter Taylor ’22 Reflection

“I had made a positive impact on someone else; I had connected through my words to another mind, another person.”

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Fears, Beers, and Freshman Year

“Excuse me, do you have an extra cigarette?” I asked a woman outside New York Penn Station on my way home from Reunions in June. As I inhaled, the previous nine months began to transform from life to memory, things that were happening to things that had happened, becoming things that had happened to me rather than things I had made happen.

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Ghosts of Berggasse 19

“You are buzzed in after a moment, as if you are entering a doctor’s office, as if you are a patient, as if the Freud, whose eyes stare out from the tiers of brochures in the museum’s front room, will tell you in due time what your dreams mean.”

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