Brown, Class of 2014 A Trip to the Deli By Olivia Conetta It’s a sunny, sweltering day on Long Island. Old Northern Boulevard is bustling with obnoxious mothers with fake tans and even faker hair color. One such mother can be heard screaming into her BlackBerry that her son needs to be retrieved from sleepaway camp. German cars line the street. READ MORE		Barnard/Columbia, Class of 2014 “Ephemeral (adj.)—fleeting” By Carmen Ren Ever since I first read this word, it has become my favorite. I mangled its pronunciation with my naive tongue. (I mangle most of my polysyllabic words because I had no one to correct me before the incorrect pronunciation settled. I have given up throwing “big words” into my sentences.) READ MORE		Penn, Class of 2012 Corrie By Alexandra Levine Rectangle glasses. Her graceful, ballerina body lays in the grass with her thick-rimmed, black rectangular glasses. Eyes closed, pink lips parted just enough to convince me that she’s trying to say something. READ MORE
Dartmouth, Class of 2015 War Sweet War By Ziad Al-Shamsie I was born in a world called war. This world took away the humans who gave me life and granted me a new identity. I am an orphan who has breathed life’s contagious apathy for 2920 days and 2919 nights – READ MORE