Dear The Miscellany News, I’ve written multiple drafts of this retrospective, but none of them have felt quite right. At first, I thought it was because I hadn’t yet found…
This semester, the final spring of my senior year, I learned how to knit. On a dark Sunday evening sometime in February, my friend Taylor sat down next to me…
One of my grad school application statements begins like this: “Late at 3 a.m. in The Miscellany News’ office, I skimmed the walls of my office where former Editors-in-Chief had…
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…
It has been, lately, a season of endings. In these weeks, I’ve walked halls and felt that unignorable thing in my chest, like: “What if this is the last time…
The Sports section is often an overlooked part of The Misc. Most people see sports as nothing more than escapism or an enjoyable waste of time. This is somewhat true,…
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…
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…
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…
