brown dining services: secret menu [post-pourri]

As the weather gets colder, the 12 p.m. Ratty line grows noticeably shorter. Even the Andrews salmon line keeps itself under 30 minutes on Tuesday evenings, when I stop by during what would be prime dinner time before my immunology conference. Whether you are avoiding the cold weather or your palate ...

unlikely lovers [narrative]

The stage lights switch on. The pit plays its first notes, and the audience goes quiet.

all bundled up [crossword]

editor's note [f25] [10]

Dear Readers,

thought enough to carry [narrative]

On the way to the appointment, they talk about their New Year’s plans. It’s December, and A is getting her tattoos removed. M is driving her because she is the only friend A trusts enough to witness the betrayal of her former belief in permanency. M also just likes to drive her places pretty often. ...

"weapons" and the world we inherited [A&C]

Although Zach Cregger’s Weapons (2025) is marketed as a horror film, this classification only partially reflects the film’s broader ambitions. While the film employs the genre’s familiar aesthetics, its central concern is the gradual and corrosive breakdown of civic life in contemporary America.  ...

night at the museum [lifestyle]

I see London; I see France; I see a pair of old, faded blue-and-white striped boxers peeking out of some pure-math-super-nerd’s sweatpants, as he reaches even higher on the whiteboard, working on a problem that probably takes more patience than I am willing to expend writing about it. It’s midnight ...

chasing the ease of childhood [A&C]

There’s no feeling quite like returning to my hometown after being away at college. When I begin to recognize my surroundings again, when I notice the road I took to get to my high school job, when I see the familiar trees lining my block: It’s like being born again. It’s simultaneously beautiful ...

moments in-between [feature]

As 22-year-olds, we take ourselves pretty seriously. We’re convinced that our two romantic decisions (anything before tenth grade is negligible) indicate a lifelong pattern to which we are bound, irrevocably so. We’re sure that, despite results of an allergy test that say otherwise, we are allergic ...

shipping rakhis [narrative]

Ma won’t make poha for us on Sunday evenings anymore, and even on the rare occasions that she does, she won’t serve those golden-yellow grains alongside a glass full of steaming hot milk. I no longer ride behind your metallic cycle on my pastel one every school morning. I go by car, the one you ...

dry tears [feature]

My mother gestures me into the room. As I walk in, I look around—it’s vastly different from the last time I was here. I used to spend multiple days a week here, where we had our movie nights, where I had my band practices, where my parents forced me to go with my friends because my dad didn’t ...

containment, connection, and the spaces between [lifestyle]

This world is made of boxes. 

thanksgiving recipes

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college hill icks [post-pourri]