Five Years Later, Wesleyan Is Still The Best Decision I’ve Ever Made
I love Wesleyan. I love it more tonight than I ever have because I see it for its faults and scars.
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Stop Calling It “Casual Sex”
Our concept of “casual sex” has given us permission to be casual with each other’s humanity.
Read MoreValentine’s Day On a College Campus: Hallmark and the Hookup Scene
In an environment where caring is usually a weakness, what do you do about a holiday centered on showing that you care?
Read MoreThe Depression No One Warns You About When You Graduate
It feels like the rug has been pulled out from under you, like you’ve been pushed off a cliff and you are falling and you just keep falling.
Read Morejournal entry: graduation
Graduation day is very slow, waffles, your boyfriend does not want to wake up and cannot find his dress socks, your parents manage to get parking in the Vine lot because they arrive early, there are a lot of pictures, you are flustered. Everyone seems cranky and you bristle and he shakes their hands. More pictures. They go […]
Read MoreHow to Complete a Senior Thesis
On April 11th, 2014, I turned in my senior thesis. The product of months of blood, sweat, and tears, it clocked in at 126 pages and contained eight short stories, a twenty-eight page theoretical introduction, and so many sassy subtitles. After nary a day without editing a description of an orgasm, panicking about over-using the phrase […]
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