Category: Reflections

Clif Bars

I reach into my bag, the wrapper crinkles, and, suddenly, I think I want to climb a mountain. Well, I take that back. I’m rather un-athletic, my legs are disproportional to my body, and recently I’ve developed an incessant rattling cough, so I know that that’s a poor idea.

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Le Cirque, C’est Chic

One pearly-teethed, outdoors adverse Princeton debutant examines the thrilling liberation of circus arts.

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Parched

Social responsibility and conditions of scarcity.

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I Wrote A Thesis

I wrote a thesis. I wrote it and bound it and turned it in. I am proud of my thesis and I think I produced a piece of research that is interesting and substantial.

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Dreamscape

“When she dreamt of something, she dreamt of ballet.”

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Elevators

“Someone said this to me the other day: People always seem to press the elevator button again even if someone else has already pressed it.”

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Seeking Nature in Suburbia

“Like clockwork, the dull roars of airplane engines drown out the wind and occasional cricket chirps…”

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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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Homeward Bound

As of last year, I have lost my status as a permanent resident of New York City. I have in many ways become a stranger to the concrete jungle that taught me that the world contained more than my five-person family and two-bedroom apartment located in the scenic neighborhood of Parkchester, centered in the middle of the Bronx, a borough known for little more than its poverty and baseball team.

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Real World Anthem

While it was released in early October, the video “First World Anthem,” created by the nonprofit organization Gift of Water, has only recently started going viral. The video shows children and adults wearing slightly tattered clothes while standing in front of destroyed homes and desolate fields, reading phrases such as “I hate when my phone charger won’t reach my bed” and “I hate when my mint gum makes my ice water taste too cold.”

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Visualizing God

There is a debate among medieval Jewish philosophers about the permissibility of conceiving of God in physical form. Maimonides, heavily influenced by Aristotelian philosophy, lists the non-corporeality of God as one of the thirteen core principles of faith, and writes in his legal code that anyone who says that God has a body is a heretic with no position in the World to Come.

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Attachments

“Honey, you’re so talented with computers,” my mom smiles. “Can you please help me attach this file?”

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