A change in hair color can be a striking signifier. It’s permanent, at least until the hair is bleached or dyed again, or is cut. It’s also highly visible, unlike…
If you had told me in the fall of my sophomore year that I would be translating 2,700-year-old Homeric Greek by my senior year, I would have laughed. But after…
The world we live in under the COVID-19 pandemic finds many of us unexpectedly at home, searching for pockets of peace amidst the chaos. Like countless others, cooking is part…
Navigating the shift to online learning has proved disorienting and challenging for students and professors everywhere. At schools like Vassar, which emphasizes the importance of community and personal connection in…
The two of us sit at the dining room table, reading for class. Around 10:40 p.m., I turn over my printed art history reading and scrawl, “And what if one…
With the pandemic raging at full force, trips have been canceled, our favorite restaurants have been shut down and events have been postponed. It’s easy to feel disoriented—and at a…
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On the Tuesday before spring break, I walked out of my education class and into a family group chat storm, sparked by my sister’s text from the middle of her…
When I started writing this, I had a whole lot more to say about coronavirus than I do now. I sat in my bedroom, converted into a quasi office for…
On Saturday, March 7, I left campus to spend Spring Break with my family in the suburbs of Allentown, Pennsylvania. On the one hand, I was relieved to return home—the…
