Caroline Sydney
Staff Columnist
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SYDNEY: Grade expectations

It’s unfortunate that it takes a truly bad grade to convince us to look closely and critically at an assignment.

SYDNEY: Asking better questions

Passover questioning is part of my heritage, good for me and seasonally appropriate.

Air Time

There’s a period of time — maybe the first minute — during “Never Say Goodbye,” a piece in the Yale Dancers fall show, when the […]

Cat’s Cradle

Within seven minutes of stepping in the door of adjunct professor of mathematics Michael Frame’s house, I’ve met just as many cats. They differ in […]

SYDNEY: Entering the friend zone

You should most definitely tell her that becoming her friend was your New Year’s resolution.

Winter Growing

The pizza oven is closed for the season, and the workday planned for this wintry afternoon has garnered a dismal turnout — four volunteers, myself […]

SYDNEY: College, actually

That doesn’t have to mean everything is perfect, though, and I’m the first to admit it.

X Marks the Spot

[media-credit name=”Jennifer Lu” align=”alignnone” width=”300″][/media-credit]  The walls of the X, WYBC’s studio at 142 Temple St., are plastered with recent indie-rock tour posters and promotional […]

SYDNEY: Why we screw the way we do

So the next time I arrive at what appears to be a candlelit vigil, I’ll know what to tell the assembled council.

SYDNEY: Only time will tell

At the beginning of my freshman year of high school, I sat down at a sticky cafeteria table to write a letter to my senior-year […]

SYDNEY: Just hold the door, y’all

It has been exactly a month since I moved in. I’m not pining for my family. I don’t miss my dog. (Does that make me […]