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Held by the tide
At sunrise in Rosemary Beach, Fla., I feel the chilly salt air in my face and the security of feeling as though I have the world to myself. Looking out at the white sand meeting the ocean, I feel content, …
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A random roommate success story
We all gathered from Cape Cod, Mass. and Brooklyn, N.Y. and Belfast, Maine and Vienna, Austria as mere strangers up 57 stairs (we counted) to the bare white walls of Appleton Hall room 405, unknowing of the home it would …
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A polyglot loophole found in the Balkans?
While Serbs nowadays throw up a holy trinity salute to express their national pride and religion—like Albanians who sign an eagle across their chests with both hands—when I occasionally throw up my thumb, index and middle fingers in a photo, …
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Soft ground
Early in the fall it is not rainy, but I decide to wear rain pants to lab anyway. We study mosses flagged by yellow tape for a few hours. The medium is found ballpoint pen on waterproof paper: my favorite …
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911: Are you ready for an emergency?
When the alarm finally rang, I didn’t expect it to be a car crash. I’d been a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) at Harpswell Neck Fire Department for five months, more than a full semester, and had not yet received …
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On murmurations and collective flocking
There was a woodpecker on the tree closest to my bedroom window on Sunday morning. His pecking sounded over the constant drizzling rain, becoming my very own aviary alarm, coaxing me in and out of sleep. His pecking reminded me …
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Notes app narratives
Currently I’m sitting in bed on the bottom floor of my aunt’s apartment in Portland, OR (not the other Portland, the one in Maine where I go to school). It’s almost a hundred degrees outside. I angle the shades to …
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Mean eyes
Content warning: This Talk of the Quad contains depictions of an eating disorder that may be upsetting to some readers.
We all want to feel good about ourselves. And in many ways, I’m incredibly proud of the person I am. …
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Something’s different, but I don’t know what. Maybe it’s me.…
The summer before my semester abroad was my first time away from the College for longer than a month since I matriculated. After spending my first year, then first summer and then sophomore year on campus, the College began to …
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Reflections on Opening Day
Last Thursday, for the first time this year, the Boston Red Sox took the field for a real game of baseball. From now until October, this sport will be a constant in my life—an unpredictable constant, but a constant nonetheless.…