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Phoebe Kosman
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Please, Sir, I Want Some More
When I finished my penultimate college paper last week, I retired to the Winthrop House Library for a study break.
Well, This Could Be the Last Time
When I came down with a hacking cough last week, I headed to the Harvard University Health Services (UHS) pharmacy
Fictional Harvard
In the absence of actual post-graduate plans, a couple of my roommates and I plan to spend the summer writing
Erin Go Bragh
I administered a vicious pinch to one of my roommates at lunch last Thursday. “Ow!” he said. “What was that
What Would Byron Do?
Two months before he died of fever in Missolonghi in western Greece, broken and legendary at 36, George Gordon, Lord
I Never Thought You’d Do Recruiting
Even now you see them hurrying by you down Plympton Street, conservative ties fluttering, cell phones at their ears, portfolios
It's For You
Whenever I hear a tinny rendition of “Silver Bells,” I rummage through my bag and all my coat pockets, feeling
What Happened in Winesburg
Clyde, a town of 6,000 in northern Ohio, is best-known for its pseudonymous turn as Winesburg in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg,
When We Were One-and-Twenty
When I talked to my eighteen-year-old brother the morning after Election Day, he was despondent. “You know I’m going to
The Rough Streets of Cambridge
I watched the last half-inning of last week’s American League Championship Series in my common room, with what may have
It's in the Photograph
When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold opened fire on Columbine High School in 1999, most Americans were horrified. How had
Going Mobile
I came home for a few days at the end of the summer to find my bedspread fuzzy with shed
Poor Man's Fight
Spring has finally come to Cambridge. The air smells of lilac; flip-flops slap the brick sidewalks. Hemlines go up. Seersucker
Thinking About Theses
“Oh, I don’t know,” I told my tutor. “I like riots, especially ones involving sledgehammers. Also, um, Thomas Wolfe. I
Girl Talk
Because we have tethered a dry erase marker to our bathroom mirror, it has come to function as a de
