Things I will/will not miss about small town living
Is McDonald’s the Mecca of your town? Do all of your high school friends live 20 minutes away from you? Do the people around you casually mention the race of…
Nicholas Tillinghast
Popular fall classes gain additional, slightly inferior sections
Another semester, another hectic period of pre-registration. Students looking to get into highly requested classes will be happy to know that new sections have opened with some intriguing adjustments. The…
The Nature Report: Watchin’ Blooms 2023, new skunk on the block
Ah. ’Tis spring at Vassar College. The cheery robin and the squeaky starling have returned. The wasps and bumbles are awake, stalking me on the window screens daily. The bumbles…
Tyler, The Creator delivers with dynamic new old material
It’s been nearly two summers since Tyler, The Creator released his critically acclaimed album, “CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST.” I remember listening to the project in its first week;…
Secreting secrets in dorm room design for the spring season
As a hard-hitting journalist worthy of invites to PB’s coveted journalism dinners I sometimes seek out the queries of our loyal readers to bestow upon them my superior knowledge. Before…
Pump it up! Functional condiment dispensers return
As Sam Cooke once said, “A change is gonna come,” and come it has. The famous hands-free machines featured in the Deece that often would fail at their simple job…
Who is most mad this March? A comprehensive basketball team
March—the month of mad. This angry period is accentuated by two college basketball tournaments in which the maddest team wins, a festival known as “March Madness.” Yet year after year,…
How to sleep as snug as a bug in a rug
A lot of people ask me, “How do you sleep at night?” and I tell them, “Certainly not by mulling over my past transgressions. Irreparable damage is a daytime thing,…
AI art is not ‘inspired’ by its sources—it is exploiting them
Every time I see someone comparing the process of Artificial Intelligence (AI) art generation to inspiration, I am infuriated to no end. To quote “John Rosemond: Why you shouldn’t high-five…
I miss the old Express: A lament rooted in disappointment
It has been a little over five months since Express lost the right to serve hot food, an experiment which has, at best, made me very sad. For the majority…