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Remembering as we say goodbye (and clothes?)

I started working at Paces my freshman fall. I was a server, and I spent my shift running back and forth across the room wrapped up in my own exciting life: on edge because my crush would come for his sandwich, on

April 30, 2015

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I embarrassed myself a lot when I was sixteen

My Ride the Tide was a disaster. Honestly, there are only two reasons I ended up coming here: some freshmyn gave me my first bong hits before the activities fair and I applied Early Decision. RTT, thinking back on it, was the

April 16, 2015

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Dressed to impress at Ride the Tide

Ride the Tide is coming, and the year is going. Walking to brunch with my roommate Sunday morning, I watched her look down at the sports shorts and flannel she was wearing and sigh, “I get proportionally more frat-bro as the weather

April 16, 2015

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Over Sharples dinner: an ode to specs

— When confronted by someone new at Swat, do you think you take the “flight” or the “fight” response? “I don’t know. It depends.” — Yeah, I don’t know. I’ve been thinking about the awkwardness of eye contact in Sharples a lot

April 16, 2015

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Sufjan Stevens dazzles with light show, lyricism in Philly

This past week in the Academy of Music: Sufjan Stevens walked onto the stage in complete darkness. Dual spotlights shone down from below as he began to play the piano, singing, “Spirit of my silence, I can hear you, but I’m afraid

April 16, 2015

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Deep ambivalence on Ride the Tide, maybe worth it

I didn’t go to my own Ride the Tide in the spring of 2012. It was the weekend of the last cycling race of my high school career and of my senior prom (for which I was late, sunburned, and extremely unenthusiastic,

April 16, 2015

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What’s Ur Quirk?

This week’s CJ theme is “Quirky.” I was a little baffled when I heard that. I’ve been called quirky enough times to wonder if maybe it’s true, and if maybe my column is in fact actually always quirky. But I think before

April 2, 2015

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D&D & RPGs: Swarthmore’s hidden nerd culture

Earlier this semester, Psi Phi hosted its twice-yearly Cookies and Characters event, where dungeon masters — or game masters, as some prefer it — put on their robes and wizard hats and throw character sheets at everyone gathered. “Now you’re a dwarf!

April 2, 2015

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Sex and Nerf guns? Trying to move past our vision of ML

Like most people on campus, I’ve always had a well-defined idea of “Mary Lyon culture,” and, like most opinions on campus, this conception was based mostly off conjecture and rumor rather than facts or actual experience. I can count on one hand

April 2, 2015

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Buying your soul from the liberal arts experience

I was assigned your account, because you’re quirky, and I’m the quirkiest they had. I always say, “If you don’t like what’s being said, change the conversation.” So, instead of starting off with quirkiness at Swarthmore College, as assigned, I’m going to

April 2, 2015

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