Dispatches

DISPATCH | Living for the day: Paris, Part Two

“Here I was, living a life once-imagined. I have the card to prove it.” In the second installment of a two-part series, Head Editor José Pablo Fernández García chronicles his summer in Paris, reflecting on how to define one’s present and future self.

“Here I was, living a life once-imagined. I have the card to prove it.” In the second installment of a two-part series, Head Editor José Pablo Fernández García chronicles his summer in Paris, reflecting on how to define one’s present and future self.

‘Not like light from dead stars’: Russian, piano, & life leading up to brain surgery

“But could it be that literature is all there is — not just as in poems and novels, but as in expression by means of language?”

“But could it be that literature is all there is — not just as in poems and novels, but as in expression by means of language?”

DISPATCH | I still see it all: Paris, Part One

“I’m trying to describe it with words, but I would have to be an Impressionist essayist to truly write the light in Paris and Princeton.” Head Editor José Pablo Fernández García chronicles his summer learning and taking in the sights of Paris.

“I’m trying to describe it with words, but I would have to be an Impressionist essayist to truly write the light in Paris and Princeton.” Head Editor José Pablo Fernández García chronicles his summer learning and taking in the sights of Paris.

DISPATCH | Talking to strangers

“For my entire life, I have lived by the saying, ‘Don’t speak unless spoken to.’ But the past two months of talking to strangers have allowed me to learn, empathize, and connect with others in a way that I would never have experienced otherwise.”

“For my entire life, I have lived by the saying, ‘Don’t speak unless spoken to.’ But the past two months of talking to strangers have allowed me to learn, empathize, and connect with others in a way that I would never have experienced otherwise.”

DISPATCH | The Simple Suds of Midtown Manhattan

“A lot has changed since those nights. I’ve grown, my mom’s grown, and our relationship has grown more complicated, as mother-daughter relationships often do.”

“A lot has changed since those nights. I’ve grown, my mom’s grown, and our relationship has grown more complicated, as mother-daughter relationships often do.”

DISPATCH | Looking ahead to a move-in redo

“Princeton, in many different ways, both mentally and physically, changed me.”

“Princeton, in many different ways, both mentally and physically, changed me.”

DISPATCH | Taking the leap: Traveling across the country alone to LA

“This summer was filled with things I was uncomfortable doing, some of which I went into willingly and some I didn’t, but, regardless, I don’t regret taking the 2789-mile leap from home to the unknown.”

“This summer was filled with things I was uncomfortable doing, some of which I went into willingly and some I didn’t, but, regardless, I don’t regret taking the 2789-mile leap from home to the unknown.”

DISPATCH | ‘It’s Okay to Cry’: How SOPHIE’s memory helped me through isolation abroad

“SOPHIE’s music has allowed me to connect with this city and remind myself that it will be worth it.”

“SOPHIE’s music has allowed me to connect with this city and remind myself that it will be worth it.”

DISPATCH | Drowning out the silence

“I know I have people in my life that I can share silence with, but I realized that I was not one of them.”

“I know I have people in my life that I can share silence with, but I realized that I was not one of them.”

DISPATCH | Cooking for the company

“There are few better feelings than making good food for those you care about.”

“There are few better feelings than making good food for those you care about.”

Spend fall break in SoHo!

Are you looking for somewhere to visit over fall break? We would highly recommend the SoHo area in New York City. Here’s a few spots that we checked out there over the past summer.  

Are you looking for somewhere to visit over fall break? We would highly recommend the SoHo area in New York City. Here’s a few spots that we checked out there over the past summer.   

DISPATCH | What being a camp counselor taught me about life after loss

Reflecting on a summer spent working as a camp counselor in Kentucky, Managing Editor AG McGee writes about coming to terms with grief and how to move on after a major loss.

Reflecting on a summer spent working as a camp counselor in Kentucky, Managing Editor AG McGee writes about coming to terms with grief and how to move on after a major loss.

DISPATCH | Summer At Last

The sun sets later day by day in the southern hemisphere. By an unfortunate combination of Princeton’s academic calendar and the onset of COVID-19, I have lived through three consecutive autumn/winter cycles, so it’s a refreshing change of scenery to finally roll into summer. This also happens to be the first summer that I will spend on a gap year.

DISPATCH | Living near UChicago

I had decided to sublet an apartment a mere five-minute walk away from the University of Chicago (UChicago) campus for the fall and live with a stranger, rather than stay at home in New York, a decision that often warranted some explaining. The short answer is that I wanted to spend time near my older sister, who’s currently living in Chicago. 

DISPATCH | Getting used to the noise

It sounds strange when I explain it. Why Boston? Why these girls, who I barely knew before we signed the lease? I still have trouble picturing the series of events that led me here; the days after Princeton announced that fall semester would be online are a blur.

Going home to ‘Trump’s America’

This summer I was fortunate to be supported by the John C. Bogle ’51 Fellowship in Civic Service to return home and assist Dr. Erika Kitzmiller with her research project, “Youth Inequality, Mobility, and Opportunity in Red and Blue America.” I took this valuable experience as an opportunity to explore the dissonance I felt while reading Vance’s memoir and reflect on my own experience growing up in Appalachia.

DISPATCH | Finding hope in a time of loss, mourning

Maintaining relationships, participating in activities with friends and family — even if they are virtual — and consciously making the effort to enjoy little bits of every day have become the cornerstone of my everyday life.

DISPATCH | The deer have taken over

Graduate student Dennis Schaefer shares what it’s like to live on campus in a summer unlike any other.

DISPATCH | Eight minutes and 46 seconds

White Americans have participated in protests more than previous uprisings in response to police violence. In big cities and small towns across the nation, this movement has grown into perhaps the largest in U.S. history. Wellesley exemplifies this change. 

DISPATCH | Great American road trip

It would be so satisfying to offer some kind of grand insight into the American people and all the places they inhabit, but my only conclusion is that America defies facile generalization.