No Niche Nelly
After learning about the Transcendentalists in the eleventh grade, I thought all writers were supposed to be decorated scholars, like Thoreau and Emerson, who went to Ivy League universities (or maybe they didn’t… I don’t actually know). I have followed a mildly impressive educational path: I attended Skidmore College, which is not an Ivy, but […]
My peers said studying abroad would “change my life”—that I just had to do it. This pissed me off. Who are they to say what I need to do with these crucial years of my youth? I need to pass my classes. I need to graduate. I need to find a therapist. My TJ Maxx […]
I used to be a teenage crybaby. Okay, I still cry a lot, like when an old person or dog is struggling in any minor way. In my freshman year of highschool, however, I cried about boys. In my English class, we read Romeo and Juliet, a play of star-crossed lovers, or at least that’s […]
People will insist that alcohol is good for you, that it lowers your blood pressure and helps you sleep. They’re not wrong, at least according to the Wine Moms of Fairfield County. Meanwhile, others scorn drinkers, accusing them of holding the bottle so close in attempt to warm their frigid hearts. I personally do not […]