Emily Austin’s 2021 novel highlights relatable anxieties
Emily Austin’s “Everyone in this Room Will Someday Be Dead” is a novel about a woman who cannot stop going to the emergency room. We first meet Gilda, our protagonist,…
Day: April 28, 2022
The Shower Singer
A girl by the name of Lynn Squeak Uttered sweet-sounding trills from her beak. But what a curious thing! When the loud water waned, You’d only hear hideous shrieks! …
10 things about Vassar that ~just make sense~
Have you ever thought, “Why is this the way that it is?” And then you remember, “Oh, right. I’m at Vassar College, a highly-selective, coeducational liberal arts school in the…
Springing into warm weather: How to sweat your way through May
It would have been a few months ago now that I saw something incredible. The clouds parted, and then there was this sort of whitish disc in the sky, kind…
The nature report: Doing ’shrooms on the Farm
This past week, I finally took the initiative to engage with the pluralism of mushrooms happening at the Farm Ecological Preserve. Fungal friend Miles gave me a walking tour of…
Horoscopes: April 28
Aries Some weeks you just check out. Some weeks you show up 15 minutes late to your independent study with a coffee in hand (not like I’m drawing from personal…
Athletes share how they curate pregame playlists
As any college student knows, the pregame playlist is the key to the main event. It creates the hype, gets the energy flowing and is decisive in determining whether the…
Nets Shocked In Sweep By Celtics, Fall Short Once Again
Even as the Brooklyn Nets continued to fail to gain traction in the second half of the season and fell to the play-in tournament, it would have been difficult to…
Vassar Sports Roundup: April 28
Men’s and Women’s Track and Field | Farley Invitational | April 23 The Vassar track and field teams traveled to Williams College for the Farley Invitational this past Saturday. Once…
We need better public transportation in America
Since 1956, the United States has spent 2.5 trillion dollars on mass public transportation, including buses, subways, trains and others. Although this seems to be a large amount of money,…