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Pandemic Freshmen

When you’re a little kid, you have a general idea of what your first day in college will look like. Suitcases in hand and a backpack on your shoulders, you walk across a crowded campus, green as eager upperclassmen shove club posters

April 9, 2021

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The 9 3/4 of Sharples: The Free Zone

There is a place in Sharples that is hidden in plain sight: the free zone. Unknown to many and all too familiar to some, it is a unique place. Every time I enter the dining hall with my friends, I repeat the

April 9, 2021

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A Hawaii Girl’s Guide to Long Plane Rides, Culture Shock, and Freezing Weather

As I looked at social media pages showcasing Swarthmore’s latest acceptances, I noticed some future Swatties who are coming to Swat from the same place that I did: somewhere in a tropical climate thousands of miles away from campus. I watched as

March 19, 2021

Campus Journal

Reflections On My Arrival At Swarthmore

Imagine for a moment you are in a parachute. You can see beneath you. It looks scary, yet exciting. Landing approaches. The canopy is opening. At any moment you will hit the ground. The anticipation of impacting the earth when you touch

March 19, 2021

Campus Journal

Top 5 Places to Cry on Campus

We’ve all been there. You tried to do your reading of over 200+ pages in one night, you didn’t comprehend a single word with all of the academic showmanship, you feel like an imposter who doesn’t belong at this school, and you’re

March 5, 2021

Campus Journal

Who Drew the Dicks?

The best fiction is always rooted in reality. Even in science fiction and fantasy, where the superficial appeal is the upheaval of the social constructs we all know and duly despise, what grounds us to the fantastical narratives is human emotion. The

March 5, 2021

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GET App Reservation Process to Become Even More Complicated

The GET app is one among many pandemic-era changes to daily campus life to which residential students have grown accustomed. To prevent congestion and overcrowding at Sharples, Essie’s, and the laundry rooms, the app requires users to reserve a timed appointment at

February 20, 2021

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College Will Not Test Near-Campus Students, Claiming they are Already Immune

Students living near campus in the Ville have found themselves in a sort of liminal space, existing somewhere in the gray zone between being on-campus students and being remote students. College policy regarding students living in the Ville has for the most

November 12, 2020

Campus Journal

The Lost Legend of the Swarthmore Rubber Ducks

Back in the beginning of Swarthmore, when the trees were still saplings and McCabe was but a few books on a shelf, back even before the name Lang had appeared on any building, there stood a small cottage northeast of Parrish. In

November 12, 2020

Campus Journal

On-Campus Journal Part II

The first On-Campus Journal covered my impression of the first two weeks on campus. As we near the very end of the on-campus experience, here are all of the ways that the on-campus experience is different this year than in past semesters.

November 12, 2020

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