High School Friends Are Better
By the time you enter college, it’s expected that you hate your hometown and everything associated with it. After all, you likely just spent the last decade forced to physically…
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A Not-So-Screenworthy Senior Year
Senior year is supposed to be life-changing. After years of being insignificant, piddling underclassmen, we’ve finally made it. Senior year is the final hurrah—the year-long celebration of thirteen years of…
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The Coffee-Industrial Complex: America’s Obsession With Productivity
During quarantine, I’ve missed a lot of things—my friends, my family, my dreams and aspirations—but most of all, I’ve missed coffee shops. I miss the hustle and bustle of 9…
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Virtual School Is Bringing the Carceral State Into Students’ Homes
Last August, a Black seventh-grader in Colorado had the police called to his home for showing a toy gun to his virtual art class. His parents weren’t notified until the…
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Why I’m Lonelier at School Than I Was in Quarantine
When I got that fateful email from my university in March saying that we would be sent home immediately due to COVID-19, I cried. A lot. I was in a…
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Leaving New York With Words Left Unsaid
New York, I love you but you’re bringing me down. New York City is probably the greatest love of my life, and being a New Yorker is perhaps the largest…
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Online Learning Was Therapeutic For Me. Here’s Why.
The benefits and frustrations of distance learning have fully imbued college culture over the last two months. From students making TikToks about crying during Zoom lectures to posting about wearing…
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