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12/07
Overheard@Brown
鈥淚s it called Foot Locker because shoes are feet locks?鈥�
鈥淚f I鈥檓 in a house that鈥檚 on fire, I鈥檓 already butt-ass naked.鈥�
Top 10 Pre-s
Fresh Fruit (duh)
-lude to the Afternoon of a Faun
The kind with alcohol
Star Wars I-III
Mature babies
Marital sex
Cum
-gnant
-nup
-sents!!
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鈥淏ite into Fresh Fruit!鈥�
鈥擣resh Fruit First Editorial Board, 鈥淓ditor鈥檚 Note鈥� 2.15.73
鈥減ost- will concern itself with coverage of the art forms that shape our culture, the personalities that define our popular taste, and the issues that demand discussion鈥�
鈥攑ost- First Editorial Board, 鈥淓ditor鈥檚 Note鈥� 2.04.00
11/30
Overheard@Brown
鈥淚s it called a grandfather clock because it looks like he鈥檚 swinging his penis?鈥�
鈥淚鈥檓 an avid not-doer. I hate doing shit so much.鈥�
Top 10 Places that should be
- Santa Claus, IN
- The Bermuda Triangle
- Six Flags Great Adventure
- Pound Town
- My room
- Your room ;)
- Bikini Bottom
- Providence, RI
- Whoville
- 聽Cupertino, CA (this is a call to action for Apple Music for next year, xo)
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鈥淧erhaps building a home means, instead, freely giving pieces of ourselves away, leaving them in the unexpected corners of the world. And maybe we cannot ever truly build homes anyway. Only places we call home.鈥�
鈥擪aitlan Bui, 鈥淚n the Places We Once Called Home 12.3.21
鈥淥n nights I鈥檓 feeling particularly sentimental, it feels cruel that the conventional life path is set up this way: carefully knitting ourselves into the fabric of a place, only to be asked after a set amount to extricate ourselves and start again.鈥�
鈥擲iena Capone, 鈥淎nyway, Don鈥檛 Be a Stranger鈥� 12.2.2022
11/16
Overheard@Brown
鈥淚 could probably euthanize you tonight, if you wanted. I have a lot of drugs.鈥�
鈥淗e鈥檚 my boyfriend AND he鈥檚 a Yu-Gi-Oh champion.鈥�
Top 10 Thanksgiving Dinner Conversation Topics
- Your post-grad plans
- Hamilton Roblox Simulator
- Roe v. Wade聽
- Physician-assisted suicide
- Your new piercing
- Your aunt鈥檚 ex-husband
- Switching from pre-med to Medieval Studies
- Your favorite class, Pornography
- Telltale signs of a failing marriage
- Lil Nas X聽
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鈥淕reen thumbs are not green but a dark, sunkissed shade of brown, speckled lovingly with sunspots and creased deeply and irreversibly with age.鈥�
鈥擜udrey Wijono, 鈥淜ing of Fruit鈥� 11.18.22
鈥淭he reality of life鈥攁s distressing and unsettling as it may be鈥攊s that very little happens for a reason. There is no irrepressible plan or automatic response, as we observe in biological processes. There are often events for which we can find no justification, no sanity or sense. Bad things happen to good people and good things happen to bad people.鈥�
鈥擹oe Creane, 鈥淔acing Death鈥� 11.19.21
11/9
Overheard@Brown
鈥淗e literally is different. He is circumcised.鈥澛�
鈥淢y biggest regret is that I鈥檝e never been a sea urchin.鈥澛�
Top 10 Reasons Why CAB Crashed during PreReg
- Mice chewed the wires
- Stopped to take its BeReal
- Senior Prank
- Couldn鈥檛 do its Shibboleth verification聽
- Cracked under pressure
- Lied on its resume
- Midterm season burnout
- Got shy >.<
- Mom forgot to remind it
- Set alarm for 12am instead of 12pm
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鈥淚 can recall the way my life began only through stories I鈥檝e been told. I have the facts, but have to infer the emotions. Where does a story reside when its physical proof and its memory are separated and can never coexist?鈥�
鈥擬arin Warshay, 鈥淲oven into the Seams鈥� 11.4.22
鈥淲aveless, windless, starless night. The loon shatters that dark-nothing, adding more breath until its yodel falls into vast looping echoes, painting textures and distances on the black canvas before me.聽
鈥擨saac Eng, 鈥淥n Loon Time鈥� 11.5.21
11/2
Overheard@Brown
鈥淚 always wanted to be colorblind as a kid so I couldn鈥檛 be drafted.鈥�
鈥淚 bet pacifier cigarettes would really calm a baby down.鈥�
Top 10 Beans
- Smol ??
- Vanilla
- Vegetarian Refried
- Clitoria (butterfly pea)
- Chilling
- Jelly
- -ie BABIES
- The big reflective one in Chicago
- 鈥here, done that聽
- Cannellini
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鈥淚 am but a freckle on a leaf, burdened to evergreen beneath the flaming sun. Freckle in the face of life, power in the face of oblivion. I don鈥檛 know why I am or, rather, why I keep trying to be.鈥�
鈥擭茅lari Figueroa-Torres, 鈥淩aising Monarchs鈥� 10.28.22
鈥淭hen, when we made acquaintance with the art that materialized before us, that beckoned us into the mysterious basement halls and seated us next to strangers, we lacked any other excuse for meeting, we became adamant about the community of seeing.鈥�
鈥� Madeline Canfield, 鈥淭he Art of Reopening鈥� 10.29.21
10/26
Overheard@Brown
鈥淎n umbrella is also the optimal weapon.鈥�
鈥淚'm rewatching this lecture capture for a lecture I attended. I be nodding so often it鈥檚 kinda embarrassing, especially at 2x speed.鈥�
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鈥淲henever someone learns my name, they make it sound smoother than it really is. Like turning a square into a circle, cutting away all the edges. It had too many of them anyway.鈥�
鈥擬agdalena del Valle, 鈥淎 Name with Room to Grow: Part Two鈥� 10.22.21
鈥淢aybe, when we grow up, it鈥檚 not so much that we learn who we are, but that we learn that we have never had any idea who we were in the first place. Is this all I am, all I ever was? A person who worries a lot?鈥�
鈥擫iza Kolbasov, 鈥淭o Hold in My Hands鈥� 10.21.22
Top 10 Scary Sentences
- Death
- Run-on
- 鈥淲here my hug at?鈥�
- Boo!
- 鈥淲e need to talk鈥�
- (Over Instagram DM) Hey girlie!
- Your instructor has released grade changes and new comments for Midterm Exam.聽
- 鈥淲e should get coffee鈥�
- 鈥淒o you want the good news or bad news first鈥�
- Red rum (read it backwards)
10/19
Overheard@Brown
鈥淚f you don鈥檛 have what it takes to be a stripper, you don鈥檛 have what it takes to be in investment banking.鈥�
鈥淚 don鈥檛 use mechanical pencils; they鈥檙e for people who are out of touch with nature.鈥�
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鈥淎s I held on to the hug, all the colors and words and shapes and sounds of that moment held on to me with a symphony of voices that sounded like 鈥測ou are here you are here you are here.鈥� I am here, gladly.鈥�
鈥擩oyce Gao, 鈥淒etaching From Detachment鈥� 10.14.22
鈥淭hrough warm cinnamony conversations, we unravel layers of ourselves. In the middle of the crowd, I speak and listen myself into existence.聽 A seemingly de-individualized coffee chain becomes, for a moment, a world all our own.鈥�
鈥擫iza Kolbasov, 鈥淐offee for Here鈥� 10.15.21
Top 10 10s
- Top 10s聽
- Things I Hate About You
- One Tea House
- You ;)
- 听-苍颈蝉听
- 颁辞尘尘补苍诲尘别苍迟蝉听
- Amendments to the Constitution (aka the Bill of Rights)
- Ben
- October 10, 1010 (10/10/10)
- -nessee (cuz ur the only 10 i seeeeeeeeee)
10/5
Overheard@Brown
鈥淚 don鈥檛 know if there鈥檚 any good time to say this, but I鈥檓 allergic to milk.鈥�
鈥淚鈥檝e been to Albany, NY and London, England, and Albany is better.鈥澛�
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鈥淚 wish I had all of their memoirs. But since I don鈥檛, I cut out space in my personal history for these unknown ones and fill it with imaginary women: women who loved. Who stayed. Who left. Who saved themselves, so I could be here, writing them down.鈥�
鈥擲iena Capone, 鈥淗ow I Read Your Mother鈥� 10.08.21
鈥淏ecause language is the only thing that has never felt like a waste of time. So you will leap into the ocean鈥攐r you will let yourself fall鈥攐ver and over again, and in the end you will write about it all. You will warp your words, like Pygmalion does his clay, until you convince yourself that your creation is as good as the real thing.鈥澛�
鈥擡mily Tom, 鈥淔rom Here, You Can See Everything鈥� 10.07.22
Top 10 Joes
- Maffa ;)
- MAMA
- Sleepy
- Sloppy
- Trader!
- Carberry (of psychoceramic fame)
- 颁耻辫辫补听
- -Jo Siwa
- Alwyn (someone pls check on him)
- Jesus鈥檚 step-dad聽
9/27
Overheard@Brown
鈥淚f it wasn鈥檛 for QuestBridge I鈥檇 be here on a D1 scholarship for instigating.鈥�
鈥淯nabomber? I barely even know her.鈥�
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鈥淪omehow, we collide at these exact moments, in these exact ways. Whether or not we鈥檝e met before, somehow we spark an iteration of love. Isn鈥檛 that a beautiful idea, that we鈥檙e all in love with little bits of each other?鈥�
鈥擪aitlan Bui, 鈥淗ead Over Heels鈥� 10.01.21
鈥淚 am home, perched in a rusted wooden chair with scars of use across it. Tomorrow鈥檚 homework is sprawled on my floor. I am home, yet the isolation strengthens. The house I鈥檝e grown in feels just as far away as the lands I originated from.鈥�
鈥� Laura Tamayo, 鈥淓xile鈥� 09.30.22
Top 10聽 Leaf-s
- Japanese Maple聽
- Without saying goodbye
- Tea
- The ones of grass by Walt Whitman
- Kkaennip
- Catnip
- 鈥 message after the beep
- through a book
- Eucalyptus (but specifically if u are a koala)
- Blower
9/21
Overheard@Brown
鈥淚 have a thing for females with their nipples out, I feel like it鈥檚 an accessory.鈥�
鈥淚 think being a hater has protected my peace鈥澛�
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鈥�Everything inside you beats: the thunderclap of your heart, the shuddering of your breath, the quivering of your stomach. It all beats. Like wings. Like things longing for freedom, longing for escape from this prison of flesh, blood, and skin that you call your body.鈥�
鈥擠aniel Hu, 鈥淎 Glossary of Terms for 鏃�鈥� 9.23.22
鈥淲e think of spring as beautiful, watching the earth as it slowly reawakens from its hibernation and retains its summertime vibrancy. We don鈥檛 consider how painful this transition could be; we expect beauty to simply bloom at the snap of a finger.鈥�
鈥擡llyse Givens 鈥淐hanging My Seasons鈥� 9.24.21
Top 10 Things You Say You鈥檒l Do This Semester But Definitely Won鈥檛 Get Around To聽
- Intramural volleyball
- Write the entire syllabus for an independent study you and your friends are always talking about putting together
- Readings
- Joining the niche club your acquaintance is running, thanklessly, once again this year
- Get dinner with that one friend you make small talk with
- Go to the Nelson (consistently)
- Read Today@Brown
- Get your nose pierced
- Drastically change your wardrobe (finally start dressin鈥�)
- Eat the correct number of vegetables per day (at least 2)