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Life in a Purple Suite

When I tell relatives that I share my suite with conservatives, they ask me the same question: “Why?” I answer that they’re my friends, that […]

You Belong With Whom?

We all miss vulnerable Taylor Swift. How we long for the eager and bespectacled tween of “You Belong with Me,” and how we rebuff the […]

Beyond Good, Evil and Anxiety

A week before my flight left to New York this August to get back to campus, I was brewing tea in my family’s kitchen. I […]

Claire Mutchnik
Let’s Talk About Race, Baby

I made her cry. Maybe it was because she saw her kids in me and wouldn’t want the same for them. She — Kathy — […]

Sonia Ruiz
Spirits in the Elm City

“Who here believes in ghosts?” Colleen O’Connor, a tour guide for Ghosts of New Haven, a local company that offers ghosts walks for “skeptics or […]

Why You Should Re-Watch “Hocus Pocus”

The crazy billowing dresses, the gelled-up orange hair, the dead man’s toe — it’s all just a bunch of hocus pocus, remember? Cringey pre-teen romance, […]

Between the Sheets

Whenever I think of the word intimacy, I envision a bed. Soft white sheets, or colorful pastels with dazzling patterns. A pillow or two, or […]

Jiyoon Park
Jeong

I. In a home video from 1998, my mother coos, “Kyung Mi ya — aegoo? I love you.” She sneaks her index finger into my […]

Laurie Wang
Rinse and Repeat

The water is so warm that I almost don’t notice I’ve stepped into the lake. It’s so inviting that I keep on going until I’m […]

Sonia Ruiz
A Writer’s Worst Fear: The Blank Google Doc

In my absolute favorite episode of Spongebob, he is faced with the task of writing an essay. Following an exaggerated, drawn-out montage of his pencil […]

Ashley Fan
Five Boroughs, Five Senses

As you wade through New York City, inch by inch, different smells assail your nose, whether fragrance or odor. Though my pitifully empty bank account […]