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The Giant Squid presentation was a real relief. I drove here from my apartment in West Philly on Saturday night to see it, and about five minutes out the door, the rain started pouring. It’s dangerous how badly my car skids in

The Quaker Matchbox, The Swat Marriage, The Sharples Run-In With Last Night’s Drunken Paces Hook-Up: for some, these relationships are an enduring facet of campus life, an inevitable consequence of the Swarthmore social scene. What other options are there? We’re hopeless intellectuals

Freshman rooming assignments do not always work. Despite the painstaking deliberation taken over the first-year housing survey (how many clothes can I toss on the floor and still qualify as “moderately messy?”),  the perfect roommate can elude us, and many part after

The semester is winding down, finals time is around the corner and we are down to the last two Pub Nites. But on the bright side, the weather has been mind-blowing. The upcoming transitions of everyone leaving college life to head home

Ladies and Gentlemen: we are literally in the last full month of the 2011-12 academic year. Sure, you may not have realized it considering the amount of pressure that you have been under but its true. One month left before we all

Lately I’ve come to find out things about myself, first how not smart I am in regards to numbers, secondly how naïve I can be about the smallest things and third that I build up walls. Not like actual brick walls, but

The warmth of spring is only weeks away, the weather is beginning to brighten up, the days are becoming longer and less depressing. Those relationships that have borne those long cold nights are beginning to melt and single life is beginning to

Valentine’s Day has come and gone, the heart shaped chocolates are almost empty or too disgusting to even keep eating. Those flowers you received are beginning to show their first shades of brown. Whether your valentine was a friend or someone for