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05/01/26

Overheard@Brown

“Do word games and not cocaine—that’s your lesson for today.”

“Just remember: My mom has your mom’s phone number.”

Hot post- time machine

“Everyone undergoes changes, new environments, and people coming and going within them. I feel as though I’ve navigated change well in the past; assuming an adaptive and receptive attitude didn’t feel like a trying task. Yet this upcoming bout of change feels different, lonelier.”
— Samira Lakhiani, “out of bloom” 04.11.24

“Maybe creativity isn’t about what’s made. Maybe it’s about why. That electric urge to reach across the gap and make someone feel something—confusion, discomfort, wonder, delight. We know it when it hits. Or when it doesn’t.”
— Rchin Bari, “the ghost behind the frame’” 04.09.25

Top 10 Finals

1. Take home…
2. Countdown
3. Girl
4. Four
5. Five
6. Tribal Council
7. Straw
8. Fantasy XIV
9. -ly for this one night, I’m about to have a fun night
10. Destination

04/22/26

Overheard@Brown

“You’d fit right in with the Mormon church.”

“We should do, like, a post- fight club.”

Hot post- time machine

“Too long without distinguishing my roommates’ laughs among their cacophonous howling, and I start to feel suffocated by the hush of my hometown. It’s a tricky balance that I never really figured out over these past four years.”
— Samiha Kazi, “how to be someone” 04.25.24

“I won’t parrot the age-old advice of how important it is to eat for survival, but it’s a nice feeling when you can enjoy a fulfilling meal—even just a quick one, even if it’s the only peace you’ll have that day. And when you eat with friends? You’re just making memories, and you can never have enough of those.”
— Angel Benjamin, “minimal effort spaghetti sauce” 05.02.25

Top 10 Haters

1. Sue Sylvester
2. The Grinch
3. Andrea Long Chu
4. Martin Luther
5. Cain about to kill his brother
6. twenty-three of Caesar’s closest friends 
7. Kendrick Lamar
8. Man about to get visited by three weird ghosts
9. Mr. Darcy
10. Count Olaf at those kids

04/15/26

Overheard@Brown

“I’m so sorry, I’m a redhead racist.”

“She’s…Zendaya for the educated.”

Hot post- time machine

“It was well past dinner time when we realized we were famished. The sun had long since set and a purifying fluorescence lit the room.”
— Kimberly Liu, “hunting for clues, eschewing the blues” 04.18.24

“It’s a bit past the Vernal Equinox now. The Northern Hemisphere is approaching the sun, but we’re still closer to the Vernal Equinox than we are to the summer solstice. I wish I could stay in the in-between for just a little longer. ”
— Katherine Mao, “spring (noun, verb)” 04.25.25

Top 10 Main Green Activities

1. Starting 420 early
2. Dragging a chair from one end to the other
3. Saying you will start that paper for three hours straight
4. Pole dancing
5. Eating lobster #MaineGreen
6. Hanging out with the forgotten brother of John and Hank
7. Not being Quiet
8. Dodging frisbees/footballs/spikeballs
9. Spotting Murphy!
10. Avoiding that guy who draws on Instagram…

04/01/26

Overheard@Brown

“I went to office hours, and I didn’t realize how much I don’t know.”

“Did you bring a White Claw to class?”

Hot post- time machine

“I still find it hard to trust airplanes, but I trust the people that these threads connect me to, and I trust the solid tugs I feel in the threads, like promises to never let loose. ”
— Jeanine Kim, “my aerophobia and i” 04.04.24

“It’s nice that being friends means that, like a well-loved book, we can pass around the things that make us happy, cool, and smart. It’s nice to see my friends in myself.”
— Daniella Coyle, “stealing from my friends’” 04.04.25

Bottom 10 Fools

1. Me thrice
2. Beautiful little…
3. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
4. I pity the…
5. Me leaving my dorm umbrella-less today
6. Anyone not reading post- Magazine right now
7. You slipping on a banana peel
8. One of the dunces in their confederacy
9. Esau trading his birthright for a bowl of stew???
10. Matthew Morrison

03/18/26

Overheard@Brown

“2030—that’s a year? That’s a real year?”

“You look like a character in a Jane Austen novel—not the main character, but one of the ones who gets sold into marriage.”

Hot post- time machine

“Words, once familiar friends but now complete strangers, taunted me as they swam in a whirlpool of lines and characters, confusing sound for sound until they all lost meaning. My native language, the first words I ever spoke—omma—my mother tongue, now a foreign entity, an unwelcome invader.”
— Jeanine Kim, “making words out of nothing” 03.21.24

“I notice some other folks basking in the snow, passing around a cigarette. Their attire: either little-shirt-big-pants or big-shirt-little-pants—slightly androgynous vibes but not enough to bring their gender identity into question. I begin to converse with them.”
— Ivy Rockmore, “on ‘bi non-practicing’” 03.21.25

Top 10 Springs

1. The Rite of
2. and All (by William Carlos Williams)
3. Weekend
4. The first movement of Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons”
5. Hot
6. Into action
7. Silent
8. Cleaning
9. Bruce [ ]steen
10. Rum[ ]a

03/11/26

Overheard@Brown

“The eight-year-olds yearn for the gorges.”

“You brought a knife to a black hole fight.”

Hot post- time machine

“We’re entering our twenties now, which means internships, boyfriends, darker shades of lipstick, reading books other than young adult romance novels. But I still think about third grade—noisy recorders, dirt in our hair from the playground, and after-school crafts—with a warm familiarity.”
— Ana Vissicchio, “spooled” 03.14.24

“Fish don’t exist. It’s quite a simple concept, though I suppose I should elaborate. ”
— Ishan Khurana, “everything is everything” 03.14.25

Top 10 Signs 

1. Now Entering Rhode Island
2. “I saw the—”
3. The one that is both the signifier and the signified
4. Goose crossing
5. Those vultures circling overhead
6. This one—send that text!
7. Auld Lang
8. On the dotted line
9. Count Olaf’s ankle eye tattoo
10. Now Leaving Rhode Island

03/04/26

Overheard@Brown

“I think there’s a cosmic force behind it.” “Yeah, it’s called procrastination.”

“It brings out my motherly instincts.”

Hot post- time machine

“Emails make a relationship feel tangible. It’s time I dedicated to that person. It isn’t just a text that I sent while I was making breakfast. It’s an hour of picking the right things to say, the right poem to send, the right place to split paragraphs.” 
— Eleanor Dushin, “i’m trying to tell you” 03.07.24

“There's truly one thing in the world that frustrates me more than the current state of American politics: Roblox's viral multiplayer dress-up simulator, Dress to Impress. Whether during a particularly monotonous period of lecture or a restful moment of Mock Trial practice, I find myself consistently returning to the Roblox app to torture myself once again with a round of this infuriating game. ”
— Ann Gray Golpira, “battle of the pre-teens” 03.07.25

Top 10 Brown Students

1. The entire post- staff
2. You <3
3. Distant relative of John Carter Brown
4. Daveed Diggs
5. Clippy
6. My roommate, Katie
7. Underground baristas
8. Brown Band members
9. Bruno
10. The person who politely looked away when you slipped this week

2/25/26

Overheard@Brown

“Being hetero-erotic about it.”

“Really insane question, but have you ever read Karl Marx?”

Hot post- time machine

“If one had to summarize all of menswear—its ups and downs, bell bottoms, shin huggers, and oxford bags—into an essential fabric, it would have to be tweed.”
— Sean Toomery, “tweed and me” 02.29.24

“I have always cried on my birthday, maybe because it reminds me of my asymmetrical origins. Or maybe because it always feels like I’m standing in two places at once.”
— Ellyse Givens, “on equilibria” 2.28.25

Top 10 Olympic Events 

1. Doubles luge
2. Getting to class right now
3. Triathlon (skiing, rifle shooting, and admitting to cheating on your girlfriend on TV)
4. Alternate Triathlon (skiing, rifle shooting, and stealing your teammate’s credit card)
5. Prometheus Triathlon (stealing fire, delivering it to humans, and getting your liver eaten by an eagle)
6. The one Alysa Liu did
7. Curling, but only if you cheat
8. Kung Fu Panda triple toe loop
9. Keeping the cardboard bed quiet
10. Winning speed skating because everyone faster than you falls

2/18/26

Overheard@Brown

“I should’ve gotten, like…frickin’ a rose from you.”

“Do you guys fuck with lemonades?”

Hot post- time machine

“In the beginning, Delta Airlines created a 10 a.m. flight to Los Angeles. And I arrived early at my gate, enveloped in a net of peace, anticipating a night in my childhood bed back home, and the sun rose over Providence. But then the intercom said, Let there be a $1,500 airline voucher for any travelers willing to transfer to the 5 p.m. to Los Angeles through Detroit, and I awoke.”
— Elsa Eastwood, “paranoid in detroit” 02.24.24

“Her naked, injured form is not that of a monster or animal but simply a girl without a towel. The blood on Carrie’s hands is not from any act of violence or injury but a sign of healthy puberty. Carrie’s form is reduced to something disgusting and animalistic.”
— Isa Marquez, “a bloody good scare” 2.22.25

Top 10 Cats

1. The Musical
2. The movie version of the musical
3. Garfield
4. Cool
5. Catapult!
6. -apillar
7. Cheshire
8. in the Hat
9. The Aristocats
10. The fog when it comes on little feet

2/11/26

Overheard@Brown

“I love to pontificate.”

“The world is a wide, wide oyster and I’m the sexiest pearl.”

Hot post- time machine

“When I imagine the experience of caring, I imagine it as a keyhole to two universes: to one’s external world and to one’s interiority. Similarly, reading a text can act as an opening to learn both about the universal and the deeply personal.”
— Alaire Kanes, “a new nervous system” 02.15.24

“Nowadays, I still stop to watch the geese soar across the blue every time I see them, navigating on the basis of nothing but a feeling, and that feeling is everything. The migrations we choose, the people we cross the skies for. We love with abandon. We leave our houses to come home.”
— Michelle Bi, “what guides the geese” 2.14.25

Top 10 Pacts

1. Blood
2. Pinky swear
3. Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education 
4. Christina Pactson
5. Pact-Man
6. Between Faust and the devil
7. Boots and pacts and boots and pacts and— 
8. Magna Carta
9. Pactelbel’s Canon
10. Sharpe Repactory

2/4/26

Overheard@Brown

“Me and babies got beef.”

“We’re in different IQ brackets.”

Hot post- time machine

“It is freshman year and every day I feel as though I am stranded in a whiteout, the world empty save for the roar of the wind and voices too dim to distinguish. It’s that particular brand of loneliness exacerbated by the cold, and when a blizzard rolls around, heaping buildings in mounds of snow and dulling the afternoon sun to twilight, what else is there to do but go outside?”
— Sydney Pearson, “treasure under our feet” 02.08.24

“The prospect of that, the expectation of it all, excited me as a child. It’s sickening that the same feeling that once inspired me today weighs on me, crushes me under the pressure of what it means to leave a legacy—to leave and have people know that you were once there, that your name means something, that you are carrying on all that it meant before.”
— Joe Maffa, “maffa way” 2.07.25

Top 10 Frigid Rivalries

1. Tonya Harding vs. Nancy Kerrigan
2. Me vs. the patch of ice I slipped on
3. Snow Miser vs. Heat Miser
4. Elsa vs. Anna
5. Elsa vs. her country’s history of colonialism #Frozen2
6. Scrat vs. his acorn
7. Kevin McCallister vs. the wet bandits 
8. The man from “Baby It’s Cold Outside” vs. the woman from “Baby It’s Cold Outside”
9. Frozone from The Incredibles vs. his wife
10. Literally everyone vs. ICE

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12/5/25

Overheard@Brown

“Time to write diaspora poetry about this.”

“I don’t want to be formally diagnosed with gay.”

Hot post- time machine

“How to capture my unbounded love for all these people, for telling their stories, for carving pumpkins and hanging trinkets on the wall and oversharing and coming together because we agree how important and powerful and beautiful this all is? The past three and a bit years have gifted me this family for which I will never have the words to fully express my adoration and appreciation. All I can say is thank you.”
— Joe Maffa, “editor’s note [f24] [11]” 12.5.24

“This is my last ever editor’s note at post- and it’s hard not to get mawkish, so I will try to make it simple: Read post-! This magazine changed my life.”
— Kimberly Liu, “editor’s note” 12.7.23

Top 10 Worst Songs at Karaoke

1. “This is Me” from the 2008 Seminal Film Camp Rock
2. “I Touch Myself”
3. “The Star-Spangled Banner”
4. Finally for this one night, I'm about to have a fun night / With this Munchkin boy Galinda found for me / And I only wish there were / Something I could do for her / To repay her, Elphaba, see? / We deserve each other / And Galinda helped it come true / We deserve each other, me and Boq
5. “The Star-Spangled Banner” if you’re Fergie
6. A beautiful harmonica solo
7. Slam poetry
8. Weird Al’s 11-minute odyssey, “Albuquerque”
9. “The Backyardigans Theme Song”
10. “Pontifical Hymn”

11/19/25

Overheard@Brown

“Jellyfish are just rocks that hurt more.”

“There are no gay brothers, just gay lovers.”

Hot post- time machine

“‘With the pastel blue peeler—its slightly rusted metal speckled with black, remnants of the countless fruits and vegetables eaten, cooked, and shared by my mom and grandma—I shaved the ombrés of scarlet red and golden yellow off seemingly innumerable apples.”
— Lynn Nguyen, “a love letter to apples” 11.22.24

“In my thickset blue and purple sneakers, I watched its kingly flaps, wanting to dig my soles into the ground and bury myself up to my ankles and become immobile. Creatures so vast render human beings into nothing—at least if you look at them for long enough.”
— Ellyse Givens, “deserted” 11.30.23

Top 10 Babies

1. Renesmee
2. Yoda
3. NOT the Four Seasons Atlanta baby (SYBAU)
4. The little punk who sat next to me on the plane
5. Mom I frew up
6. Big one. Large. Just like humongous.
7. Hit me one more time
8. The Chinese baby on Instagram Reels that eats all his food in size order 
9. Benjamin Button as an “adult”
10. Jack-Jack

11/12/25

Overheard@Brown

“She could not have read Hamlet.”

“Thank you, I’m a performer.”

Hot post- time machine

“‘Is my eyeliner even?’ she asked me anxiously. I looked back at her silhouette in the yellow dawn light, hands animated, eyes bright. I looked and all I could see was the little girl who had napped on my shoulder every car ride. I looked and looked and felt my heart quiver with sadness. I didn’t know what to say. ‘Yeah, it’s even.’ And with that, she looked satisfied.”
— Michelle Bi, "what we inherit" 11.15.24

“But when the time comes to make the cut, I never do. I have never trusted myself enough, which is to say, when things go wrong I don’t know how to forgive myself. It’s easier when my redemption relies on someone I love, and I don’t know if I’ve ever loved myself. I would rather be the one with my eyes closed. I would rather let someone else hold the blade.”
— Emily Tom, "triptych of bathroom haircuts" 11.15.23

Top 10 Lavender Marriages

1. Light blue and pink
2. My uncle and his first wife
3. John Hay and John D. Rockefeller
4. Me and a shot of Tito’s
5. Janet and Brad from The Rocky Horror Picture Show
6. Scar and whatever lioness he had kids with in the second movie
7. CP*x and Husband, esq. 
8. Rhode Island and Massachusetts
9. Green and Red M&M
10. Keurig Green Mountain and Dr Pepper Snapple Group

11/5/25

Overheard@Brown

“I do not dream of labor…Good night.”

“I just realized last night that plastic surgery doesn’t involve plastic.”

Hot post- time machine

“The fresh cold made us gasp until our blood and the steady air reminded us we were warm. Plumes of mud flowered from the river’s floor where the current tripped a rolling stone or the crawfish pranced or we shuffled and kicked. Our arms gestured high and droplets flew around us like crystal flies.”
— Nina Lidar, “about fire” 11.8.24

“We walk along the lake’s circumference and its green is something I want to inject into my hippocampus and remember, too. I reach for your hand hesitantly, as I am still afraid of being too forward, even after more than a year of knowing your calluses.”
— Ellyse Givens, “send my love” 11.2.23

Top 10 Things the Lion Doesn’t Concern Himself With

1. Lyin’
2. Slack notifications
3. Lactose intolerance
4. Eerie similarities between his life and the plot of Hamlet
5. The witch and the wardrobe
6. Tigers and bears, oh my!
7. Anything the light does not touch
8. Being turned into a rug
9. Sleeping tonight
10. What you’ve done, but what you do with what you’ve done for others

10/29/25

Overheard@Brown

“I’m sorry, I’m the weakest link.”

“His mouth irritates me.”

Hot post- time machine

“Here’s what I’ve jotted down so far as tenets of American mythology: the open road, outlaws à la Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the anxiety and appeal of motion, the salt flats in Utah, dust-red handprints on the walls of a dried and ancient canyon, and dangerous nostalgia for a non-existent better time.”
— AJ Wu, “american myth in motion” 11.01.24

“When my grandma sits down and tells me something from her past, it feels like a charm to add to my own life bracelet. Like the ones we used to make with glass beads, Grandma, do you remember? When we sat on your heavily mattressed four-poster bed with the black columns, counted beads to string together, and measured our wrists with a corner store fishing line. ”
— Nélari Figueroa-Torres, “recording scriptures of glory” 10.26.23

Top 10 Couples Costumes

1. Cher from Clueless and lowkey her brother???
2. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande—just their fingies
3. Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci in Conclave
4. Mama and a Girl Behind YOU
5. Ball and chain
6. John Updike and John Downdike
7. The Trolley Problem if you pull the lever and The Trolley Problem if you don’t
8. Pomegranate and grief
9. The lion and the lioness who do not concern themselves with each other (flop marriage) 
10. ⅔ Challengers (or all 3 idk) (or 4 with the ball)

10/22/25

Overheard@Brown

“My kids will be dressed like a fucking nun.”

“Sorry I have to read Bible tonight.”

Hot post- time machine

“I must tell you that I am from Hawai‘i, but I am not Hawaiian. I don’t know how it feels to have the land taken from me. I don’t know how it feels to fight for it back. All I know is that, although this land was never mine, it is the one that raised me. It is the only thing I want to write about. I’m turning my memory into mythology for you.” 
— Emily Tom, “home is a place revisited” 10.25.24

“There are dances that open their arms, reaching out towards the audience until every single droopy-eyed father in the crowd is tapping his foot along to the rhythm—and there are dances that hug in on themselves and whisper some terrible sadness that brings a tear to the most stoic eye.”
— Mack Ford, “a tangle of movement” 10.18.23

Top 10 Things You Could Pumpkin Spice

1. Toothpaste
2. Señorita Awesome
3. Everything nice 
4. Everything But The Bagel seasoning
5. The 4th state of matter, plasma
6. Sheet metal
7. Microplastics
8. The society in which we live
9. Your GCal
10. Like, a latte maybe. Sorry. Stupid, stupid, stupid. 

10/15/25

Overheard@Brown

“Do you ever look at that emoji and think there’s a lot going on behind that face?”

“No one even shares a chaste kiss.”

Hot post- time machine

“Why can’t I be both? Why can’t I be fluid? I can’t shake off the idea that defining my bilingualism as a state of constant translation, of conscious switches between languages, means chasing my own tail forever.”
— Nahye Lee, “untying my tongue” 12.4.24

“Little girls’ brains are sticky as flytraps. When you’re young, every facial expression you see, every word you read, and the smallest fragments of information all collect in the back of your brain.”
— Olivia Cohen, “how to be a girl” 10.19.23

Top 10 Families

1. Yours ;)
2. Addams
3. Feud 
4. Ties
5. Modern
6. Mine ;)
7. Rachel Berry, her two gay dads, and Idina Menzel
8. The turkeys on Benefit street
9. The brother and sister from the Folgers commercial with a ‘special’ connection
10. Me and ‘Mother’ (Lady Gaga)

10/8/25

Overheard@Brown

“You can say any slur that applies to me.”

“Kittypets is like calling brown people coconuts.”

Hot post- time machine

“I don’t know what they’ll look like when I return in December. Perhaps this winter will be rainy, and they’ll be emerald green, trees and bushes bursting to life. But it’s more likely I’ll find myself remapping a dozen new ashen scars, unfurled across the slopes, the constancy of change once again making itself known. The next fire season will come, and the one after, and after. The mountains will erupt again and again. Nothing will ever be the same as it is today.”
— Michelle Bi, “leave no trace” 10.9.24 

“And I know: to love is beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I hum along with the music that swells from the speaker. It’s simple, isn’t it? Love isn’t just a flash, a bolt you feel leaping across your veins. Love is what I feel when I look at you.”
— Daphne Cao, “the shape of love” 10.18.23

Top 10 Falls

1. Of democracy
2. Icarus
3. You on your head when you were born
4. Hailey Bieber getting out of car after Justin Bieber skateboarded off
5. “It’s the perfect texture for running” girl
6. Of Rome
7. Humpty Dumpty
8. The cop who went really fast down that slide
9. From grace
10. Yours (from Heaven)

10/01/25

Overheard@Brown

“Objectively, that’s a hot dragon!”

“That might be a rat…it definitely doesn’t move like a bunny.”

Hot post- time machine

“It was only my mother who could communicate with me during those first two muted years…We improvised with signals—the rubbing of the chest, the patting of the head—our homemade vernacular. Sometimes, I still feel like she is the only person who understands me.”
— Ellyse Givens, “loveaches” 10.4.24

“Perhaps it is that intimacy flourishes in the gentlest of spaces, in the most ordinary of moments, when a single heartbeat can expand and deepen, as if to extend a hand and ask to dance.”
— Sarah Kim, “nothing much is happening” 10.5.23

Top 10 Bodies of Water

1. Gatsby’s Pool
2. Lake Inferior
3. Lake Superior
4. Puddle on the George St. end of the Main Green
5. Flooded Keeney basement
6. Guy whose body is literally made out of water
7. Wishing well
8. Red Sea, specifically when it was parted by Moses
9. Fountain of Youth
10. The river Ophelia drowned in

9/24/25

Overheard@Brown

“I urge you guys to look up big balls. Your worldview will completely change.”

“I’d rather have no queer representation than that.”

Hot post- time machine

“As always, I was late for my 10 a.m., but as always, I took a few minutes to fill in my eyebags, color them black—black like the void, black like dread, black like a scream into a pillow, but also black like the ocean at night, black like two crows spinning in aimless circles against a clear blue sky, black like the darkness of your eyelids as you drift off to sleep.”
— Indigo Mudbhary, “why do you wear so much eyeliner?” 09.27.24

“My pillow cover is a violent red, supposedly a symbol of luck in Chinese tradition. It is a constant reminder of all the superstitious beliefs my mother has instilled in me. While some measures I can’t help but feel burdened by, her act of changing my bedsheets (oblivious to her intentions) to brown ones the night before opening my acceptance letter to Brown, has softened my heart for her little gestures.”
— Gabi Yuan, “red cover” 09.28.23

Top 10 Hear-Me-Outs

1. Nick Wilde
2. Your mom, your dad, your sister, etc.
3. Human Shrek
4. Garamond
5. The concept of ennui
6. Purple
7. Zane (LEGO Ninjago) 
8. Young Joe Biden
9. The number 7
10. The hotter Wild Kratts brother

9/17/25

Overheard@Brown

“LET ME BE STRAIGHT—well I mean, I’m always straight. You guys are gay.”

“Whenever I see you guys together on campus, it’s like a sunrise.”

Hot post- time machine

“The water awoke myself to my body, a thing so funnily forgotten. The coldness pressed against my limbs so that I could feel every hair I’d always pondered shaving off, and in the full of my throat a fresh thud of heartbeats gathered.”
— Elena Jiang, “on coastlines and other beginnings” 09.20.23

“Here we find the midpoint in our evolution—the oceanic transition into TikTok bisexual boy style—taking the lessons you learned in your sauce incubation and graduating into a sauce moth (the sauciest insect).”
— Sean Toomey, “sweating towards bethlehem” 09.20.23

Top 10 Love Triangles

1. Belly + Conrad + Jeremiah
2. Bella + Edward + Jacob
3. Elena + Stefan + Damon
4. y/n + Zayn + Harry
5. Me + you + your sister (why no girls??)
6. King Arthur + Queen Guinevere + Sir Lancelot
7. Short-term memory loss + Short-term memory loss + Short-term memory loss
8. God + Satan + Job
9. BDH + Indy + Noser
10. Zendaya and the people from Challengers whose names I can’t remember

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4/30/25

Overheard@Brown

“The straw that broke the camel’s toe.”

“You bitches did not have daily grammar, I can tell.”

Hot post- time machine

“Magnolias, cherry blossoms, and daisies are everywhere. Signs of rejuvenation. In the past few weeks, I’ve spent hours basking in the sun, pondering the ubiquitous joy felt around campus.”
— Katherine Mao, “Lawn People” 04.25.24

“Against all odds, the time has elapsed. The months passed even when you didn’t believe they would. The stories played out, and then got told over, and over, and over. You’ve lived it, it’s been so full of knowing, and you’ve been so, so lucky. Everyone you’ve learnt and loved is yours to keep.”
— Aditi Marshan, “A Chronological Guide to Endless Joy” 04.28.23

Top 10 Pope Candidates

1. You ;)
2. Me ;)
3. Your mom ;)
4. Stanley Tucci
5. Popemobile from Cars 2
6. Trisha Paytas’ unborn child
7. Russell Carey
8. Hot Priest
9. Lorde
10. My ungrateful shit-eating sister

4/23/25

Overheard@Brown

“I can’t have Mexican Coke anymore because my shrink took away the one thing that brings me joy in life.” 

“Maybe caviar can cure my anxiety.”

Hot post- time machine

“The song met us at that precise space, resonating with our ephemeral selves in that exact moment. And I’ve found that the best music does just that.”
— Katheryne Gonzalez, “Notes on Collisions” 04.18.24

“The end of spring semester came in a rush of magnolia blossoms and final papers and clothes strewn across the carpet as we sorted through our shared treasures. There was a strange, gentle sadness we felt every time we passed the trading post that May, keenly aware of the days whittling down until the spell would be broken.”
— Klara Davidson-Schmich, Tabitha Lynn, & Alissa Simon, “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” 04.18.24

Top 10 Artists We Are Definitely Getting for Spring Weekend

1. Chappell Roan
2. Charli xcx & Troye Sivan
3. Kendrick Lamar (again)
4. Undertow Brass Band
5. JoJo Siwa
6. Cast of Hamilton
7. Coldplay/Chris Martin
8. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande
9. Timothée Chalamet (as Bob Dylan)
10. David Bowie (rip)

4/9/25

Overheard@Brown

“Your life is one long defamation campaign against yourself.”

“Two sides of the same coin? You’re a dollar bill, she’s probably like a penny.”

Hot post- time machine

“Because a secret is meant to be shared. Once it is shared it is no longer a secret, but something slightly different, something slightly better. It is the nakedness before skinny dipping. It is connective tissue. It is an invitation. It is telling someone, I want to know you, and I want to be known by you.”
— Emily Tom, “Secrets” 04.14.23

“Perhaps it is because the people who are leaving are the people who make Rhode Island feel like a home for me. Maybe the root of my envy is fear of the impending changes in my life as a result of their impending changes. Truthfully and selfishly, my next phase feels neither bright nor fresh without them here.”
— Samira Lakhiani, “Out of Bloom” 04.11.24

Top 10 Tabs

1. Tab key
2. Soda tab
3. Tabby cat
4. Tabula rasa
5. Tabithas 
6. Taboo 
7. Bar tab
8. Tabithas at Brown (TAB)
9. Tabbouleh
10. Incognito tab

4/2/25

Overheard@Brown

“I’m full of shame. I was raised Catholic. My shame knows no bounds.”

“My mom never let me use rope swings…that and cocaine.”

Hot post- time machine

“My sister: who is younger than me, but always insists on driving us everywhere. My sister: who has always been more than capable of handling life on her own—more capable of handling life than I am—still chooses again and again to follow me.”
— Emily Tom, “Killing Ants” 03.24.23

“The words, still unfamiliar to my ears and unnatural on my tongue, flow out more easily than I expected, coming out from the secret reserves where my mind has been hiding them for years.”
— Jeanine Kim, “Making Words Out of Nothing” 03.24.24

Top 10 Shakes

1. Milk-
2. Booty
3. “Senora”
4. The one that brings all the boys to the yard
5. Not stirred
6. It Up
7. “It Off” (Taylor’s Version)
8. Harlem
9. My head
10. -speare 

3/19/25

Overheard@Brown

“I know I cheated on him, but the Holy Spirit told me to do it!”

“I’m upset that Tony Stark isn’t a Christian man, or at least that people think he couldn’t be!”

Hot post- time machine

“There are myriad of reasons to take to the road. To write a new chapter. To leave your home, return, and wonder at everything that’s changed—all odysseys are, after all, attempts at traveling home.”
— AJ Wu, “Journeys in Haibun” 03.17.23

“One night, too dark to read but not wanting to go back to my room, I wandered the perimeter of the library. Reaching a patch of grass, I saw a flash of light, then another, then another. Fireflies, dancing through a grove of trees.”
— Sydney Pearson, “Planted” 03.14.24

Top 10 Breaks

1. Spring
2. Dance
3. “We were on a…” – Ross Geller
4. a leg!
5. -ing Bad
6. -fast 
7. A lucky
8. Prison
9. -downs
10. -ups

3/12/25

Overheard@Brown

“I’m keeping my hazard lights on so people know I have fear.”

“I won’t have sex with you, but I will marry you.”

Hot post- time machine

“I’ll tell my son that every mile his grandparents traveled, they shed more of their skin, sanded down more of their corners, became so small in the soul that they could carry it all in a suitcase, taking with them only their language.”
— Daniel Hu, “Chinese Summer, American Camp” 03.10.23

“As the cycle of seasons returns to summer soon, I think about how far I have come from a year ago. My plans are more ambitious, but I channel my self-doubt into self-determination. What am I doing? is a question of little significance to me as I continue on with my little daily miracles, and as I hold onto my treasure of euphoria.”
— Lynn Nguyen, “Eureka Euphoria” 03.14.24

Top 10 Pies

1. Day
2. Cutie 
3. 3.14
4. Key Lime
5. “Sweetest Pie” by Megan Thee Stallion & Dua Lipa
6. Boysenberry  
7. Whoopie 
8. Cream
9. Shepherd’s
10. Chart

3/5/25

Overheard@Brown

“Not one cavity ever—I’m a dental darling.”

“I defeated hunger. Not world hunger—my own.”

Hot post- time machine

“I don’t have patience for a letter. I don’t like wasting time putting pen to paper or finding a stamp or waiting for USPS to drive past your house. I care about you, and you should know that today.”
— Eleanor Dushin, “I’m Trying to Tell You” 03.7.24

“My most cherished times are spent sprawled on the floors of my friends’ rooms, wrapped in the warmth of the pillows and blankets on their twin XLs as time unravels quietly in the background of our conversations.”
— Katherine Mao, “Restful Rhythms” 03.7.24

Top 10 Awards

1. post- Top 10 list
2. Oscars
3. Razzies
4. Participation
5. Teen Choice Award for Best Liplock
6. 5 Big Booms
7. Bad Sex in Fiction 
8. Employee of the Month
9. Employee of the Month (SpongeBob SquarePants)
10. Nickelodeon Kids' Choice

2/26/25

Overheard@Brown

“Has anyone done a bit that’s just Goldilocks and her three bears, but it’s three gay guys?”

“I bet Portland does have Subarus and it’s probably because of the lesbians, not the other way around.”

Hot post- time machine

“Neither boyhood nor girlhood have rung true for me, nor do I think they ever will. I’m stuck, precariously toeing the line between the two, splitting my personality in messy halves and assigning each piece to a side.”
— Audrey Wijono, “Boyhood and Me” 03.10.23

“Fall is the most delicate season. The way the leaves crinkle, changing color so romantically, falling for us to step through like clouds, short-lived and fleeting. The breeze tickling us each time we walk outside without a jacket serves as a reminder of what is to come.”
— Gabi Yuan, “The Delightful Ever Changing of Seasons” 02.29.24

Top 10 Professors

1. Ms. Frizzle
2. Plum 
3. Bill Nye
4. Grace Talusan 
5. Dumbledore
6. Rashid Zia
7. Rate My
8. The one from Dead Poets Society
9. Neil deGrasse Tyson
10. X

2/19/25

Overheard@Brown

“Is it supposed to look like this?” “Like no, but is it a crime if it does?”

“It looks crazy with the bisexual lighting in the background.”

Hot post- time machine

“When I sit at her kitchen table, I watch my grandmother toss spice and flavor into her dishes with a crease in her brow, yet a secureness in her motion. Her dishes, organic and sacred, never know measurements, timers, special equipment. Just salt, fat, acid, heat, and love.” 
— Ana Vissicchio, “From the Kitchen Table” 02.22.24

“After all, the perfect going-out top is not merely cute; it is completely transformative. The girl with the perfect going-out top is not a mere woman. I see her moving on a crowded dance floor, easily waltzing between friends and strangers as she slinks through conversations without pause.
— Jeanine Kim, “The Perfect Going Out Top” 02.24.23

Top 10 Things Not to Do Over a Long Weekend

1. Study for physio
2. Your work
3. Fly out of Roanoke, Virginia
4. Your thesis
5. Drive through a Canadian snowstorm
6. Trudge through slush 
7. Remove your wisdom teeth
8. Crash out
9. Sleep 12 hours
10. Plan your excuse for missing prod

2/12/25

Overheard@Brown

“Even if he’s gay, I’m first in line, so back off buddy.”

“I wish everyone would invade my personal space.”

Hot post- time machine

“And I imagined what would have happened if I had spoken up, or cussed them out, or screamed, or flipped the table, or punched someone, or at least allowed myself to look angry. I think about this, and I can live vicariously through these fictional women. It is cathartic, and it is freeing.” 
— Emily Tom, “The Craze for Feminine Rage” 02.17.23

“I think I want to write something new, something in the style of Anne Carson or maybe Maggie Nelson, but I am light-headed and flighty. I feel pinned like an insect to bedposts with nail polish stains that must be over nine years old.” 
— Alissa Simon, “Christmas Adventures in OpenAI” 02.17.23

Top 10 Twenties

1. Roaring 
2. 2048
3. 2016
4. 20/20 vision
5. Twentieth century
6. 2020
7. 21
8. Twenty Stories
9. “20 Something” by SZA
10. 20 Questions

2/5/25

Overheard@Brown

“I feel like pickleball is like Wii tennis.”

“I’ll send you a fax from hell.”

Hot post- time machine

“The caress of those fingers, dangerously cautious yet curious, lead me to believe that I am undeniably desired. How many moments follow the feeling of first love— that subtle mix of fear and pounding rush to experience everything all at once?”
— Gabi Yuan, “The Delicacy of Firsts” 02.08.24

“To be in the ‘middle of nowhere’—a place that has been an important somewhere all along— I think this action may be more ‘advanced’ than any skyscraper we could ever construct.”
— Ellyse Givens, “Into the Woods” 02.17.23

Top 10 People You Didn’t Know Existed Until Last Week

1. Benson Boone
2. Bianca Censori
3. Your Marriage Pact match 
4. Jelly Roll
5. Abraham Lincoln
6. The BDH
7. The 13,000 voting members of The Recording Academy
8. Luka Dončić
9. DEI
10. That MCM professor

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12/06/24

Overheard@Brown

“It was not inappropriate, but it was complex.”

“I got into grammar because I was bullied in middle school, so I was like might as well.”

Hot post- time machine

“Read post-! This magazine changed my life.” 
—Kimberly Liu, “Editor’s Note” 12.07.23

“I love the people who make this magazine, who were here before and who are here now and who will be here after I leave.”
—Siena Capone, “Anyway, Don’t Be a Stranger” 12.2.22

Top 10 Mothers

1. Joe Mama
2. Joe Maffa
3. Dance
4. Other
5. MILF
6. of God
7. Stacy’s
8. Alex Consani
9. Beyoncé
10. Earth

11/20/24

Overheard@Brown

“How do you look hot as Mario, WTF?”

“I woke up and found a zest for life.”

Hot post- time machine

“Declare your care for others, in all its forms—scream it so loudly from the top of College Hill that the ducks by the Pedestrian Bridge feel the water ripple beneath their feathers. Tell people you cherish them until your vocal chords get sore and your lips begin to ache from words of love.”
—Indigo Mudbhary, “On Being Cringe” 12.07.23

“In a world where practically everything is dictated by logic, I view superstitions as a way to keep the magic in our everyday lives.”
—Samira Lakhiani, “Knock on Wood” 12.02.22

Top 10 Things to Give

1. Thanks
2. Face 
3. A big wet juicy smooch
4. Me a break
5. Tree 
6. Coal
7. Up 
8. A mouse a cookie
9. Liberty or death
10. Hawk Tuah

11/15/24

Overheard@Brown

“Do you think Big Abortion is making placebos?”

“I honestly think that doing psychedelic drugs is the reason I came to Brown.”

Hot post- time machine

“I can be a wanderer, but also find and make myself at home anywhere I go. Thanks to my finger friends, my pockets and my heart are now a whole lot fuller.”
—Ellie Jurmann, “Friends in High-five Places” 11.30.23

“Ghosts are the best fuel for my daydreams. The specters wander in and out of my half memory as I weave threads of fiction and real life together, until I can imagine a whole person who might have lived just so.”
—Mack Ford, “The Ghosts I Call Darling” 11.18.23

Top 10 People to Have on Your Podcast

1. Hawk Tuah
2. Serial DMer from Sidechat
3. One of my exes
4. Olivia Rodrigo, so you could sing Traitor together
5. King George III, the Mad King
6. Maximillian Robespierre 
7. My AP English Literature teacher from high school
8. President William Howard Taft, who got stuck in a bathtub
9. Myself from the alternate universe in which the core trauma of my childhood never occurred
10. JoJo Siwa

11/08/24

Overheard@Brown

“It’s good to meet a writer with an actual job.”

“Your hole is so clean.”

Hot post- time machine

“The smell of rain on the sidewalk. The way flakes of white fall from the sky and leave drops behind on my cheeks instead of staining my lungs gray. The way, each time I step outside, the first thing I notice is nature running circles around me, making itself known.”
—Liza Kolbasov, “As the Leaves Do” 11.11.22

“When disclosure of the self exists within a superficial sphere of dressing in a way that’s true to yourself or being proud of the music you listen to regardless of what others think, how can we turn the focus of expression to personhood?”
—Eleanor Dushin, “Am I Still Your Type?” 11.16.23

Top 10 Trader Joe’s Snacks

1. The guy at cash register #8
2. Lemon
3. Tea Tree Tingle Body Wash
4. Stewy brothy creamy spicy beans 
5. Joe-Joe’s
6. Pumpkin butter
7. Trader Ming
8. Scandinavian Swimmers
9. Spicy with
10. Trader Joe’s Chocolatey Coated Chocolate Chip Cookie Dunkers

11/01/24

Overheard@Brown

“Dude, do you like socks?”

“She’s really into textures.”

Hot post- time machine

“In my short time here, I know that every one of my delusions, desires, and dreams in every world, universe, and multiverse all connect to create the truest version of myself.” 
— Gabi Yuan, “Reinventing” 11.09.23

“I will always welcome a story about my past. And for my first tale, I have a souvenir that retells it to me every day.”
— Marin Warshay, “Woven into the Seams” 11.04.22

Top 10 Write-Ins

1. Joe Biden
2. Joe Mama
3. Joe Maffa
4. Hawk Tuah girl
5. The little one from Boygenius
6. Neil Mehta
7. The Beatles
8. Rashid Zia
9. The Rizzler
10. Onika Burger

10/25/24

Overheard@Brown

“Talk amongst yourself while I tackle and brutalize the technology.”

“It’s like I’m the benchwarmer for the polycule”

Hot post- time machine

“A tale in fragments can endure eons; I am a scattered clay piece of an ancient epoch. My ancestors are spread elsewhere, but I know the story of my mother, my brother, and especially me—even in its broken pieces.”
— Leanna Bai, “On Fragmentation And My Disappearance” 10.28.22

“In the midst of this season of self-discovery, love arrived, quietly, letting itself in through the back door. I currently cherish someone very deeply and am cherished by them in my entirety. Just when I was least expecting it, love snuck up on me, like a tiger in the night, terrifying but beautiful. As the leaves fall, so do I.”
— Indigo Mudbhary, “It’s Okay to Love Multiple People” 11.2.23

Top 10 Family Members 

1. Your mom 
2. Stacy’s mom 
3. Grandfather clock
4. Cousin Greg
5. 737a Hope St., Providence, RI
6. Brother eughhh
7. Unc
8. My brother in Christ
9. Mister Sister
10. Father, Son, Holy Ghost

10/18/24

Overheard@Brown

“Every group has a Beyoncé and every group has a Lea Michele.”

“I’m in an American studies seminar and everyone wears docs and has septum piercings.”

Hot post- time machine

“After all, how do you let yourself grow roots, become entangled, when your time in a place has an end date? When you’re certain to have to leave, and don’t know where you’ll be going next, or how long you’ll stay there? It feels safer to appear and disappear unnoticed.”
— Liza Kolbasov, “Haunted Grounds” 10.26.23

“So maybe magic is not reserved exclusively for the naive minds of kindergarteners. Maybe it rests most abundantly in the things unassuming and reckless and unspoken, and it is just up to us to find it.”
— Sarah Kim, “Meadowmount, Music, and Magic” 10.21.22

Top 10 Eds

1. Copy-eds
2. -Stem
3. Hardy
4. Early decision
5. Erectile dysfunction
6. Extraterrestrial if you don’t know how to spell
7. My great grandpa
8. The one who is friends with Edd n Eddy
9. Page Board
10. -ward Cullen

10/11/24 

Overheard@Brown

“If it quacks like a girl car and it waddles like a girl car then it’s a girl car.”

“What’re your top Ed’s? Mine are Ed Sheeran then Ed Discussion.”

Hot post- time machine

“And when the dance is learned, when it is ingrained in the very fibers of her muscles, she becomes larger than herself—a surprise to us and even to herself. She becomes something beyond.”
— Mack Ford, “A Tangle of Movement” 10.19.23

“As I held on to the hug, all the colors and words and shapes and sounds of that moment held on to me with a symphony of voices that sounded like ‘you are here you are here you are here.’ I am here, gladly.”
— Joyce Gao, “Detaching from Detachment” 10.14.22

Top 10 Hard Launch Captions 

1. Virginia is for lovers
2. It’s been you all along
3. This and some premarital
4. Siblings or dating
5. First date kinda nervous
6. Thing 1 and Thing 2 
7. Long-distance, low-commitment, casual girlfriend 
8. Made it out of the situationship
9. Hard launch
10. I’m with stupid ⇒

10/04/24

Overheard@Brown

“I want my abortion done by a nun.”

“My canvas post really pushes the boundaries of coherence.”

Hot post- time machine

“Because language is the only thing that has never felt like a waste of time. So you will leap into the ocean—or you will let yourself fall—over and over again, and in the end you will write about it all. You will warp your words, like Pygmalion does his clay, until you convince yourself that your creation is as good as the real thing.”

— Emily Tom, “From Here, You Can See Everything” 10.7.22

“I know the future holds many more new exit numbers for me. Everywhere I’ve ever called home will stay tucked away, but just within memory’s reach when I need to feel the comfort of belonging.”
— Samiha Kazi, “The Road Back Home” 10.5.23

Top 10 Reasons you left Harvard v. Brown early

1. Laundry timer went off
2. Bored.
3. To read post-
4. No hope
5. Conscientious objecting 
6. Got scared
7. Fell in a hole covered with leaves
8. Sneaky link
9. Dog ate my homework
10. Drank too much!

9/25/24 

Overheard@Brown

“Using etc. is a shitty little move.”

“No one can make me dance like a jester.”

Hot post- time machine

“It’s a hazy, remote memory in my mind, but it’s there. The lingering song of a raunchy salsa band wafting through the streets. The wandering stray dogs with matted fur. The white cross of the stone cathedral. Each direction births a new recollection, unwieldy and uncertain, yet unmistakably there.”

— Laura Tamayo, “Exile” 09.30.2022

“But home isn’t a place you find, is it? It’s a place you build. On this strange and beautiful campus, I still feel fragile and leaky. I cry so often. But I feel it sometimes, eating with somebody outside on a sunny day, learning to dance in Sayles, going on walks by the river— little glimmers of hope.”

— Anonymous, “First Year Blues” 09.28.2023

Top 10 Pops

1. Privately owned public spaces
2. Corn
3. Socket
4. My dad
5. Soda (in the Midwest)
6. -pers 
7. Snap, Crackle
8. Joints
9. -tarts 
10. Smoke (RIP)

9/18/24

Overheard@Brown

“Do you think it’s rude to bring a bookbag to a darty?”

“I have never seen such a well- crafted group of annoying people.”

Hot post- time machine

“The crowd mentality, the one affecting the coat population on campus today, needs to be one of inclusivity and support, under whatever circumstances or for whatever reason.”

— Sean Toomey, “The Tan in Man” 09.23.2022

“The water awoke myself to my body, a thing so funnily forgotten. The coldness pressed against my limbs so that I could feel every hair I’d always pondered shaving off, and in the full of my throat a fresh thud of heartbeats gathered.”

— Elena Jiang, “On Coastlines and Other Beginnings” 09.21.2023

Top 10 brats

1. Charli xcx
2. Bratwurst
3. Bratz dolls 
4. The B(ratty)
5. Veruca Salt
6. Bratislava
7. Brat Pack
8. Queen Elizabrat
9. My ungrateful shit-eating sister
10. Bratatouille

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12/07

Overheard@Brown

“Is it called Foot Locker because shoes are feet locks?”

“If I’m in a house that’s on fire, I’m already butt-ass naked.”

Top 10 Pre-s

1. Fresh Fruit (duh)

2. -lude to the Afternoon of a Faun

3. The kind with alcohol

4. Star Wars I-III

5. Mature babies

6. Marital sex

7. Cum

8. -gnant

9. -nup

10. -sents!!

Hot post- time machine

“Bite into Fresh Fruit!”

—Fresh Fruit First Editorial Board, “Editor’s Note” 2.15.73

“post- will concern itself with coverage of the art forms that shape our culture, the personalities that define our popular taste, and the issues that demand discussion”

—post- First Editorial Board, “Editor’s Note” 2.04.00

11/30

Overheard@Brown

“Is it called a grandfather clock because it looks like he’s swinging his penis?”

“I’m an avid not-doer. I hate doing shit so much.”

Top 10 Places that should be Sound Towns

1. Santa Claus, IN
2. The Bermuda Triangle
3. Six Flags Great Adventure
4. Pound Town
5. My room
6. Your room ;)
7. Bikini Bottom
8. Providence, RI
9. Whoville
10.  Cupertino, CA (this is a call to action for Apple Music for next year, xo)

Hot post- time machine

“Perhaps building a home means, instead, freely giving pieces of ourselves away, leaving them in the unexpected corners of the world. And maybe we cannot ever truly build homes anyway. Only places we call home.”

—Kaitlan Bui, “In the Places We Once Called Home 12.3.21

“On nights I’m feeling particularly sentimental, it feels cruel that the conventional life path is set up this way: carefully knitting ourselves into the fabric of a place, only to be asked after a set amount to extricate ourselves and start again.”

—Siena Capone, “Anyway, Don’t Be a Stranger” 12.2.2022

11/16

Overheard@Brown

“I could probably euthanize you tonight, if you wanted. I have a lot of drugs.”

“He’s my boyfriend AND he’s a Yu-Gi-Oh champion.”

Top 10 Thanksgiving Dinner Conversation Topics

1. Your post-grad plans
2. Hamilton Roblox Simulator
3. Roe v. Wade 
4. Physician-assisted suicide
5. Your new piercing
6. Your aunt’s ex-husband
7. Switching from pre-med to Medieval Studies
8. Your favorite class, Pornography
9. Telltale signs of a failing marriage
10. Lil Nas X 

Hot post- time machine

“Green thumbs are not green but a dark, sunkissed shade of brown, speckled lovingly with sunspots and creased deeply and irreversibly with age.”

—Audrey Wijono, “King of Fruit” 11.18.22

“The reality of life—as distressing and unsettling as it may be—is that very little happens for a reason. There is no irrepressible plan or automatic response, as we observe in biological processes. There are often events for which we can find no justification, no sanity or sense. Bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people.”

—Zoe Creane, “Facing Death” 11.19.21

11/9

Overheard@Brown

“He literally is different. He is circumcised.” 

“My biggest regret is that I’ve never been a sea urchin.” 

Top 10 Reasons Why CAB Crashed during PreReg

1. Mice chewed the wires
2. Stopped to take its BeReal
3. Senior Prank
4. Couldn’t do its Shibboleth verification 
5. Cracked under pressure
6. Lied on its resume
7. Midterm season burnout
8. Got shy >.<
9. Mom forgot to remind it
10. Set alarm for 12am instead of 12pm

Hot post- time machine

“I can recall the way my life began only through stories I’ve been told. I have the facts, but have to infer the emotions. Where does a story reside when its physical proof and its memory are separated and can never coexist?”

—Marin Warshay, “Woven into the Seams” 11.4.22

“Waveless, windless, starless night. The loon shatters that dark-nothing, adding more breath until its yodel falls into vast looping echoes, painting textures and distances on the black canvas before me. 

—Isaac Eng, “On Loon Time” 11.5.21

11/2

Overheard@Brown

“I always wanted to be colorblind as a kid so I couldn’t be drafted.”

“I bet pacifier cigarettes would really calm a baby down.”

Top 10 Beans

1. Smol ??
2. Vanilla
3. Vegetarian Refried
4. Clitoria (butterfly pea)
5. Chilling
6. Jelly
7. -ie BABIES
8. The big reflective one in Chicago
9. …there, done that 
10. Cannellini

Hot post- Time Machine

“I am but a freckle on a leaf, burdened to evergreen beneath the flaming sun. Freckle in the face of life, power in the face of oblivion. I don’t know why I am or, rather, why I keep trying to be.”

—Nélari Figueroa-Torres, “Raising Monarchs” 10.28.22

“Then, when we made acquaintance with the art that materialized before us, that beckoned us into the mysterious basement halls and seated us next to strangers, we lacked any other excuse for meeting, we became adamant about the community of seeing.”

— Madeline Canfield, “The Art of Reopening” 10.29.21

10/26

Overheard@Brown

“An umbrella is also the optimal weapon.”

“I'm rewatching this lecture capture for a lecture I attended. I be nodding so often it’s kinda embarrassing, especially at 2x speed.”

Hot post- time machine

“Whenever someone learns my name, they make it sound smoother than it really is. Like turning a square into a circle, cutting away all the edges. It had too many of them anyway.”

—Magdalena del Valle, “A Name with Room to Grow: Part Two” 10.22.21

“Maybe, when we grow up, it’s not so much that we learn who we are, but that we learn that we have never had any idea who we were in the first place. Is this all I am, all I ever was? A person who worries a lot?”

—Liza Kolbasov, “To Hold in My Hands” 10.21.22

Top 10 Scary Sentences

1. Death
2. Run-on
3. “Where my hug at?”
4. Boo!
5. “We need to talk”
6. (Over Instagram DM) Hey girlie!
7. Your instructor has released grade changes and new comments for Midterm Exam. 
8. “We should get coffee”
9. “Do you want the good news or bad news first”
10. Red rum (read it backwards)

10/19

Overheard@Brown

“If you don’t have what it takes to be a stripper, you don’t have what it takes to be in investment banking.”

“I don’t use mechanical pencils; they’re for people who are out of touch with nature.”

Hot post- time machine

“As I held on to the hug, all the colors and words and shapes and sounds of that moment held on to me with a symphony of voices that sounded like “you are here you are here you are here.” I am here, gladly.”

—Joyce Gao, “Detaching From Detachment” 10.14.22

“Through warm cinnamony conversations, we unravel layers of ourselves. In the middle of the crowd, I speak and listen myself into existence.  A seemingly de-individualized coffee chain becomes, for a moment, a world all our own.”

—Liza Kolbasov, “Coffee for Here” 10.15.21

Top 10 10s

1. Top 10s 
2. Things I Hate About You
3. One Tea House
4. You ;)
5.  -nis 
6. Commandments 
7. Amendments to the Constitution (aka the Bill of Rights)
8. Ben
9. October 10, 1010 (10/10/10)
10. -nessee (cuz ur the only 10 i seeeeeeeeee)

10/5

Overheard@Brown

“I don’t know if there’s any good time to say this, but I’m allergic to milk.”

“I’ve been to Albany, NY and London, England, and Albany is better.” 

Hot post- time machine

“I wish I had all of their memoirs. But since I don’t, I cut out space in my personal history for these unknown ones and fill it with imaginary women: women who loved. Who stayed. Who left. Who saved themselves, so I could be here, writing them down.”

—Siena Capone, “How I Read Your Mother” 10.08.21

“Because language is the only thing that has never felt like a waste of time. So you will leap into the ocean—or you will let yourself fall—over and over again, and in the end you will write about it all. You will warp your words, like Pygmalion does his clay, until you convince yourself that your creation is as good as the real thing.” 

—Emily Tom, “From Here, You Can See Everything” 10.07.22

Top 10 Joes

1. Maffa ;)
2. MAMA
3. Sleepy
4. Sloppy
5. Trader!
6. Carberry (of psychoceramic fame)
7. Cuppa 
8. -Jo Siwa
9. Alwyn (someone pls check on him)
10. Jesus’s step-dad 

9/27

Overheard@Brown

“If it wasn’t for QuestBridge I’d be here on a D1 scholarship for instigating.”

“Unabomber? I barely even know her.”

Hot post- time machine

“Somehow, we collide at these exact moments, in these exact ways. Whether or not we’ve met before, somehow we spark an iteration of love. Isn’t that a beautiful idea, that we’re all in love with little bits of each other?”

—Kaitlan Bui, “Head Over Heels” 10.01.21

“I am home, perched in a rusted wooden chair with scars of use across it. Tomorrow’s homework is sprawled on my floor. I am home, yet the isolation strengthens. The house I’ve grown in feels just as far away as the lands I originated from.”

— Laura Tamayo, “Exile” 09.30.22

Top 10  Leaf-s

1. Japanese Maple 
2. Without saying goodbye
3. Tea
4. The ones of grass by Walt Whitman
5. Kkaennip
6. Catnip
7. …a message after the beep
8. through a book
9. Eucalyptus (but specifically if u are a koala)
10. Blower

9/21

Overheard@Brown

“I have a thing for females with their nipples out, I feel like it’s an accessory.”

“I think being a hater has protected my peace” 

Hot post- time machine
“Everything inside you beats: the thunderclap of your heart, the shuddering of your breath, the quivering of your stomach. It all beats. Like wings. Like things longing for freedom, longing for escape from this prison of flesh, blood, and skin that you call your body.”

—Daniel Hu, “A Glossary of Terms for 旦” 9.23.22

“We think of spring as beautiful, watching the earth as it slowly reawakens from its hibernation and retains its summertime vibrancy. We don’t consider how painful this transition could be; we expect beauty to simply bloom at the snap of a finger.”

—Ellyse Givens “Changing My Seasons” 9.24.21

Top 10 Things You Say You’ll Do This Semester But Definitely Won’t Get Around To 

1. Intramural volleyball
2. Write the entire syllabus for an independent study you and your friends are always talking about putting together
3. Readings
4. Joining the niche club your acquaintance is running, thanklessly, once again this year
5. Get dinner with that one friend you make small talk with
6. Go to the Nelson (consistently)
7. Read Today@Brown
8. Get your nose pierced
9. Drastically change your wardrobe (finally start dressin’)
10. Eat the correct number of vegetables per day (at least 2)