Spring 2026
The Outsider
Miles from its supermarket origin
now rustling in a tree
gripping to the frail branch,
no willingness to be set free.
The plastic bag waves like a flag
without a country.
It stands for nothing,
yet holds on too tight.…
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Spring 2026
Reflections on Kyoto
“I put a paper I wrote in high school through an AI detector; it came back 65 percent AI generated,” my cousin told me a few weeks ago on a phone call. Since she had gone to high school in …
Spring 2026
second campus
sometimes, there is a second campus
that drapes over the one you know
as night lifts lightly from its perch
its cellophane tucks silently under branches
in the new light, the world is
glimmering and plasticky at its edges…
Spring 2026
Of Skin and Scales
Skin shuddering and breath quivering, Medusa trembled like the leaves wilting from the olive trees that wound around the temple’s structure. Her knees scraped along the jagged stone as she pushed herself to her feet.
Poseidon, chest rising and falling, …
Spring 2026
What falls outside the frame
The sun beats down on the quad in mid-July. What image does this conjure in your mind? For some, they might see the ladybugs flying from tree to tree, ants scurrying out of their ant holes or squirrels chasing each …
Spring 2026
The shady route to victory
While we as academics often approach the environment with the aim to comprehend scientific processes, nature offers just as many lessons that are broadly applicable to everyday life. From the complex fungal networks that allow trees to communicate underground to …
Spring 2026
Forever in sight
Nothingness separates me from the world
The darkness of the sky brings comfort,
But the stars hurt my eyes;
I am blinded by colors I lack,
They point to a building in front of my nothingness.
I am …
Spring 2026
Student flips the script with AI
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers recently reported that consistently writing essays with the help of a large language model (LLM) reduced the levels of neural, linguistic and behavioral output compared to those who used a search engine or only …
Spring 2026
Watched but not Seen
When I was a child, no more than three or four years old, my mother told me that whenever I lied, she could read it on my forehead. I wasn’t really a mischievous child and didn’t lie often, so I …
Spring 2026
The unnatural law
When he saw the post about buffalo chicken sandwiches, Elias McEaneney ’27 was surprised.
During last February’s Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) encampment in Smith Union, comments appeared on Yik Yak—a social media platform that allows users to anonymously …