Excavation of senior’s dorm room causes identity crisis
I only kind of remember my first day at Vassar, partially because it was basically eons ago but also because I was pretty hopped up on allergy meds that my…
Humor & Satire
Fall TV shows reveal new, totally real plot lines in titles
The new fall season is upon us television-watchers, and I don’t know about the rest of y’all but I’m personally lactating with anticipation. For the Netflix and Hulu subscribers, the…
Exploring the post hook-up dynamic
Having spent a rich three years and exceptionally busy two weeks at Vassar, I think it’s safe to say I’ve experienced the breadth of the “hookup culture”* at our beloved…
Losing my VCard: An oddly impersonal retrospective
I headed into senior year pretty positive that the learning part of being a college student was over. Not the book learning part, the part where you get into a…
TA housemates attempt to bond through drinking, fail
Oh, Senior Housing. It can go well, or horribly, horribly wrong, somewhat like trying to make a smoothie that includes vegetables. I thought taking a “new friends” route would work…
Vassar College live RSS feed: No parents, no rules edition
What follows is a text reproduction of the Misc’s Humor and Satire Live RSS feed of main events occurring on campus from the summer of 2013 up until date of…
Wait…I Have To Go To Class? Tips for Surviving Your First Year
To the Class of 2017, welcome to the next four years of the start of the rest of your lives! I know, I know, you can’t believe you’re actually about…
Don’t Go In There… A Guide to Academic Buildings On Campus
Ah, the beginning of a new academic year. It’s a very exciting time for many of us, especially the new freshman. Welcome to your Private, Coeducational Liberal Arts College Experience…
Messing with the new freshmen: the plottings of a mad JYA-er
I’ve come to the realization that it’s possible no one at Vassar knows I’m gone. I don’t mean this in a self-pitying Charlie Brown kind of way—I mean it more…
Jill’s Founder’s Day ‘Choose- Your-Own-Adventure’ story
In elementary school, when the other noobz were reading books about kittens and vaguely historical revisionistic American Girl stories and Goosebumps books (full disclosure: I was too...