Confessions of a Problem Drinker
Thursday, April 7 was Think Outside the Bottle Day, presented by SGA, Student Counseling Services and the Office of Student Wellness & Alcohol/Drug Education (OSWADE). The three in conjunction offered “A campus wide…
On Senioritis
Maggie Brown was the last girl I ever dated. We parted ways probably later than we should have in the summer of 2006, she off to college four hundred miles away and I…
Who I Am, Sometimes: Reflexion Review
Saturday night in the 1941 Room, Connecticut College’s spoken word performance group, Reflexion, held their second show of the semester. The first was on Valentine’s Day, and, appropriately, focused on relationships, both past…
Home
A pronoun is a stand-in for something specific, something definable. A pronoun is a placeholder for something typically already identified, to which one later alludes. Charles ate an apple. He found it on…
On the Oddly Blurred Boundaries between Facebook and Life
The saying goes that nothing has truly happened until it’s “Facebook official”—relationships, friendships, and, in the inexorable march of social media into every stage of life, engagements, marriages and birth announcements. All meet…
On Taste Testing
Poring over the menu at Paul’s Pasta on Friday, I was torn between the Fettuccine Ragu and the Fettucini Alfredo, my perhaps-too-usual favorite dish. Alfredo I can count on. Even after the time…
I Live Here. So please stop taking down our posters.
Bureaucracy doesn’t take root overnight. It grows slowly, desk by desk, until things just sort of run themselves, and no one can remember when all this was put in place. Point-blank, no one…
On Christina
“I’m gay.” It’s difficult to describe the breathless tension that precedes such a simple sentence—a first-person contraction introducing a three-letter word. I, me, myself, am, in a state of being, gay: a homo,…
Airplane.
I don’t care for flying. Short of stopping in the jetway, spread-eagle, like a cat being put into a box, I must admit to at least a few strong reservations.
Getting Old is Tough
Getting old is tough. In the course of a week, seniors juggle the daunting adulthood of targeting resumes with the cheek-reddening adolescence of waking up on the floor feeling like a crumpled can…
Institutionalized Boroughism
The city comprises five boroughs, which are, in descending order of outside interest: Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island. Contrary to the understanding of many Manhattanites, people do inhabit each of them….
WOVEN: Senior Dancers Weave Stunning Performances
This weekend’s senior dance majors’ concert was a stunning showcase of student choreography and performance. Eight women will graduate this spring as dance majors, and for some of them, this concert marked the…
The First Rule of Fishbowl: Do Not Talk about Fishbowl
Public nudity: the final frontier. After this, it’s all a breeze: forgetting to lock the bathroom stall door, dropping your towel between the shower and your dorm room, losing your bikini bottoms in…
Love Me, Love Me. Say That You Love Me.
Anyone in the broad vicinity of the 50 Days dance two weeks ago can attest to the sloppy clutching to which many of us have been reduced. In the final, boozy months of…
The First Step Is Admitting You’re Packing a Yarnball
I don’t often tell people I knit. I prefer it to be a secret quirk of mine – something people I’ve known for years might never be aware of, like when families of…
