Meet Vassar’s intramural cornhole champions
Muhammad Ali said it best: “Champions aren’t made in gyms…” He was right, especially when it comes to cornhole. Instead, they are made behind the dumpsters of the Athletics and…
Day: June 9, 2021
Senior Retrospective: Former EIC unable to come up with headline
I hate open-ended assignments. This hate is just one facet of my deep-seated desire to avoid making decisions. Sitting here attempting to reflect on the entirety of the last four…
Senior Retrospective: How do I say goodbye?
In my four years at the Misc, I have copy-edited and made posts about hundreds of articles, yet I have never written one myself. However, I knew that I wanted…
Senior Retrospective: Everything is okay
To the Misc: The summer after my first year at Vassar, I felt so disconnected. I looked back on the beginning of my time at college and saw a blur…
Coming full circle: Predictions for the future and anxieties about flogging
During my first year at Vassar I was also featured in the commencement issue, so I guess my life really has come full circle. In that issue I detailed my…
Has it always been like this?
Le printemps vera, we said, and it did. Creeped up on us in greens and pinks and purples and buttercup yellow. Around December, I start to really miss the smell…
Dear Class of 2021: On having been and being
I have been thinking about inheriting, holding paper and emptying shelves. I once had pages and plastics scattered about my desk, strewn open for a quick reference, some blanketed with…
The Art of Running
“Even though I felt awful, and I knew beforehand that I was going to feel awful, it was still an exciting thing. I look back on it and I still…
Where has music taken you?
When The Beach Boys’ “Graduation Day” started blasting through my speakers back in February, I immediately thought to myself: It is way too early for this. As much as I…