Coming full circle: Predictions for the future and anxieties about flogging
During my first year at Vassar I was also featured in the commencement issue, so I guess my life really has come full circle. In that issue I detailed my…
Seniors
Has it always been like this?
Le printemps vera, we said, and it did. Creeped up on us in greens and pinks and purples and buttercup yellow. Around December, I start to really miss the smell…
Dear Class of 2021: On having been and being
I have been thinking about inheriting, holding paper and emptying shelves. I once had pages and plastics scattered about my desk, strewn open for a quick reference, some blanketed with…
Senior Retrospectives: Bryan Ruby
After transferring to Vassar, leaving school, planting roots in the music industry and returning to graduate, Bryan Ruby reflects on a collegiate career full of unexpected twists. It was 2:08…
Senior Retrospectives: Charlotte Varcoe-Wolfson
When I was growing up, my family had a book that listed many miscellaneous things, and then stated, “But the important thing about worms is that they wiggle.” As I…
Senior Retrospectives: Jesser Horowitz
I can’t remember how many times freshman year I wanted to transfer. It had a been a difficult, two-semester transition: Vassar wasn’t my first choice school, and I was still…
Senior Retrospectives: Jimmy Christon
One time, in a film class that I took my first year, we were doing small group discussions and I got in a disagreement with someone. At one point in…
Senior Retrospectives: Kimberly Nguyen
On the first day of Orientation, when everyone told me that college just flies by, I didn’t believe it. In the moment, time doesn’t seem to move at all. Each…
Senior Retrospectives: Noah Purdy
Noah Purdy is an art history major with correlates in Greek and Roman Studies and French and Francophone Studies. During his four years at The Miscellany News, he has served…
Senior Retrospectives: Steven Park
Steven Park is a cognitive science major with a correlate in both biology and computer science. During his four years at The Miscellany News, he has served as the science…