A Valentine’s Day Card for the Guy You’re Kind of with but Not Really Sure???
2.14.17 Dear Dan, I know we aren’t like, together together, and we don’t have a label on it—not that “it” is really anything at all,...
Boys Don’t Understand My Clothes
There is one conflict in hookup culture not-so-well addressed: the conflation of high fashion and the boys who attempt to quite literally see what lies...
The Misadventures of Sexually-Frustrated Susie: The V-Dub Waffle
*Author’s note: it’s fiction, mom. Fiction! I’m not actually that sexually attracted to waffles.* Sophomore slump had been real. Susie was unsure of everything —...
Life Explained by An Amateur Sociologist: Hookup Culture
I am a sociologist. Okay, fine. I’m a sociologist-in-training. Okay, fine, I’m concentrating in Literary Arts and I’ve taken two sociology classes. Okay fine, one-and-a-half....
Fear of Commitment, and the Heartbreaker Complex
Fear of commitment is often construed in the media as a sexy type of baggage. It comes along with brooding characters who have ‘lots of...
How to Successfully Third Wheel
We’ve all been there. Your best friend is now officially dating someone, thus breaking the unspoken agreement you had (staying single until both of you...
DFMO Woes
7 shots deep and feeling frisky, I made a grand entrance to A Night On College Hill. My stiletto heels were sunk 4 inches deep...
Whig Wishes: Swipe for America
by Emily Adams John Hancock’s recovered ‘Call to Arms’ for a facet of freedom previously unnoted in history: Exhaustion is the enemy. For building America...
Horror Movies and the Real Horrors of Life
Over the weekend, my friend suggested that we cap off our night of insane spring break debauchery (read: drinking wine in a Massachusetts basement) by...
PDA Duality: A Tale of Numbness and Phobia
When I imagined life in college, I dreamed of lounging on a sprawling green lawn laughing with incredibly diverse friends and watching other incredibly diverse...