Senior Retrospective: Bringing Vassar with you wherever you go
In front of me, I can’t make out anything concrete, but I can recognize the expanse of time that stretches out seemingly infinitely. Behind me is a lot clearer, faces…
By Ganesh Pillai – 5 months ago
In front of me, I can’t make out anything concrete, but I can recognize the expanse of time that stretches out seemingly infinitely. Behind me is a lot clearer, faces…
By Ganesh Pillai – 6 months ago
“Basketball is like poetry in motion,” or so said NBA champion and shooter extraordinaire Ray Allen in 1998’s “He Got Game.” His simile has been proven true time and time…
By Ganesh Pillai – 6 months ago
One of the greatest disservices that you could perform unto another group of people would be to categorize them as one “thing”—or worse yet, to assume their inability or deficiency…
By Ganesh Pillai – 7 months ago
Leather upholstered booths, warm lighting casting shadows across the aisles, jukeboxes adorning the walls—stalwarts of an American staple: the diner. It’s the perfect place for time-tested favorites: pancakes drowned in…
By Ganesh Pillai – 8 months ago
Listening to more music feels like a cop-out New Year’s resolution. Of course, discovering more artists to binge and songs to stream for hours on end is a goal for…
By Ganesh Pillai – 8 months ago
We’ve been told stories our whole lives. From simple nursery rhymes and bedtime tales with clear moral takeaways, to the increasingly subtler works of fiction we slowly introduce ourselves to,…
By Ganesh Pillai – 10 months ago
A city engulfed in flames, a maniacal villain on the loose, with the only chance for salvation missing in action. As this terrorizing force continues to wreak havoc, a figure…
By Ganesh Pillai – 10 months ago
As I walked along the path to the Deece, listening to the Arctic Monkeys’ seventh studio album, “The Car,” I saw a crow land on the tip of a fourth-floor…
By Ganesh Pillai – 11 months ago
Galileo once famously proposed a thought experiment as such: If two objects are tied to one another, one heavier than the other, what speed would they fall? Would the lighter…
By Ganesh Pillai – 11 months ago
As you drive through Vassar’s elaborately detailed main gate, towards Main Building, there are a few things that become obviously apparent: the beauty of the building’s front façade; the library’s…