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The Great Zombification
“And so perfect parallel constructions fill the lecture halls, the take-home tests, the school newspapers, and perhaps even the idiom of student…
May 11
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Owen Yingling
200
10
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Notes on Camp
“To leave that idyll was to open a wound incapable of being healed.”
Apr 25
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Elan Kluger
35
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PEE: $1
“Many people at The Mirror have dyed hair, and even more have piercings in their tongues, eyebrows, and noses.”
Apr 20
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Ryan Merrifield
20
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Commute Cursed by God
“Most American drivers experience three to four car accidents in a lifetime. That leaves me with two lifetime supplies...in two years.”
Apr 13
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James Milstead
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Couch Burning Season
“The university as it should be — serious, studious, and earnest.”
Apr 10
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Theodore Gary
40
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Beauty, The Last Taboo
“I was content — until it was time to read Nabokov’s Lolita.”
Apr 2
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Isabel Mehta
43
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Monitoring the Monitoring
“I’d only shown up [to the Polymarket bar] in time for the nasty hangover that the whole world would have to feel.”
Mar 31
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Will Diana
83
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Good Reading, Good Thinking, Good Writing
“To criticize properly is to show the process of judgment...to struggle with what we like.”
Mar 18
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Josie Barboriak
198
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Chasing the Story
“I noted when the organizers said, ‘This is our Vietnam.’ It embodied the story.”
Mar 11
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Sarah Miller
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THE MANIFESTO IS DEAD! THE MANIFESTO IS DEAD!
“Writing a manifesto means self-actualization to the highest degree. It necessitates a deft attention to the world that is akin to prayer.”
Mar 5
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Cathy Li
33
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Freak Show
“Algorithms reward attention, and if you can’t get the good kind, then the bad will do.”
Feb 25
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Theodore Gary
112
7
15
Experience Is Psychosis
“As part of the school’s Covid policy, we both had to spend ten days in isolation.”
Feb 18
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Will Diana
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The New Critic
68
20
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