College rodent writes home to his family
The other day, my roommate and I heard a lot of scratching and scrabbling noises. We didn’t think that it was anything out of the ordinary, as we’ve suffered through…
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Maher ’97 returns to lead television writing workshop
Every year, countless students suffer sleepless nights of the one dreaded thought: What am I going to do after college? With so few successes in the entertainment industry it is…
Vassar hosts writing seminar for Hudson Valley teachers
All teachers, regardless of the age of students they instruct, must write to teach writing. This is the goal of the Hudson Valley Writing Project (HVWP), a professional development program…
NaNoWriMo: now or never for some budding novelists
Its a Saturday in November, the sun is barely poking its way out of the outcast sky and a light mist covers the ground, and today is the day, the…
Athj carries poetic passion with him to VC
Cheikh Athj ’16 finds it important to constantly have a piece of his culture with him. Through his many interests, from poetry, music, the African Diaspora to modern dance, Athj…
Bouchard discovers universality in music and writing
By almost all standards, Jean-Luc Bouchard ’14 is a modern-day Renaissance man. An English major with Asian studies and music correlates, he plays the piano and melodica, composes his own…
Author Strayed to illuminate art of creative non-fiction
What do you do when you feel like you are failing in life? How do you go on when the things that mean the most to you are taken away?…