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What food means to me
When I first got to college, my go-to icebreaker question was, “Do you live to eat or eat to live?” Coming from Singapore, where food is an integral part of the culture and all of my friends “lived to eat,” …
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Lessons from a year of anonymity
In August 2023, I boarded a flight to Paris, France and set off to spend my junior year abroad. As I jetted into the cloudy sky and nervously anticipated the year to come, I thought about what I hoped to …
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November 6th 2024
The world keeps ending and the world keeps going on and I wake up in the morning and hope for the sun.
The world keeps ending and the world keeps going on and I worry if my shirt will fit …
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It’s hot again today
This summer, I was at dinner with a friend when we heard Donald Trump had been shot. It was hot and humid and foreboding, as much of the summer had been, and we had made the mistake of sitting outside. …
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I am not “Lost”
For weeks, I have been trying to develop an alliterative trifecta for my TOQs, adding a third J to accompany my pieces on Jersey Mike’s and Jimmy Carter, and I finally found it: Jack from “Lost.” If you have known …
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Unleashing authenticity
The other day in dance class, I stopped dancing and laid on the floor. My peers continued to swirl around me, and my professor stood watchful in the corner. But I stayed there on the floor, unmoving, allowing the curve …
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The cost of goodness
All my life, one question has remained in the forefront of my mind: Am I a good person?
The question has become such an integral part of who I am—it seeps into everything I set my eyes on and every …
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Diaries of a student-athlete turned NARP
Last year around this time, I was waking up at 5:45 a.m. for bi-weekly morning lifts, driving 20 minutes to the Schiller Coastal Studies Center for three hour-plus long practices and traveling almost every weekend in the fall.
Now, I …
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Rooted in Brunswick
I’ll admit it: I was overwhelmed during my first semester at Bowdoin College. Three thousand miles away from my home in California, I was ready to sink my teeth into Maine and did everything I could to find something to …
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It’s not ruined, just scrambled
It’s hard to mess up an egg. They’re just so versatile. You can have them boiled or fried. You can have them sunny side up on a nicely toasted piece of sourdough bread (with feta on top if you’re distinguished—like …