The small, private Catholic institution I attended for high school is set back in the countryside of Virginia. Since those years were so precious to me, I love returning to Middleburg; to the rolling hills and through the quaint little town. Since moving to Philadelphia, Middleburg has been a touchstone for me. The country town, [...]
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An Easy Major
By Justin SachseWednesday, May 20th, 2009
A lot of my friends have majors in Lebow, and they’re all getting ready for four to five finals. They are always telling me that I have an easy major. I give them that impression because I’m always reading. Many of my friends can’t fathom actually enjoying their homework. More often than not, I get [...]
Story time, children!
By Emily HomrokThursday, May 14th, 2009
I recently won a writing contest. Okay, that’s cool, I’m pleased. Part of the deal is a hundred bucks — being a college student (and not one of those “John Ritters III” type college students who populate certain nearby campuses that shall go unnamed) — and that’s pretty cool too. But there is one other [...]
Fun places to go be a cliché
By Emily HomrokThursday, May 7th, 2009
Okay, we’ve all seen them: there they sit, compressed into the very deepest and darkest corners of Starbucks, corners just barely deep and dark enough to contain the black abysses of their tortured souls, pounding away, sweating through that woolly black turtleneck, on the keys of a Mac laptop, transforming their latest ex into the [...]
It’s raining poems
By Emily HomrokThursday, April 30th, 2009
Today in yet another glorious art history class, our typical discussions of the spiritual nature of disproportionate tables and bright green nudes were abandoned in favor of a guest lecturer’s thoughts on Surrealism.
This guest lecturer is a British man called Anthony Penrose, son of painter Roland Penrose and photographer Lee Miller, here to talk to [...]
Cherish Your Books
By Ali CahillTuesday, April 21st, 2009
I love bookcases. I wish I had enough books to fill a whole library worth of books, or at least my living room. And if I did, I would definitely not be using those terrible IKEA bookshelves I used to think were so cool. Instead, I would be utilizing some of these cool designs: the [...]
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