Being Human
Trigger warning: this article discusses eating disorders and related thoughts and conditions. How do you turn away from something that has...
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Five Years of Yoga
My first time trying yoga was not a happy experience. The team had just finished a gruesome forty minute run in the frigid, pouring rain,...
Literary Idols
For much of my junior year of high school, I carried around a small scrap of paper tucked into my phone case. On it I had written the...
Intuitive Eating
Growing up, I was always taught that it is possible, if not necessary, to completely control everything you eat. My freshman health class...
What Animated Movies Can Learn From Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
Since Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse came out a few weeks ago, I’ve been hearing nothing but hype, and people talking about how good it...
On Seasonal Depression
Every year, towards the end of November, the campus changes; the blue skies and green grass begin to fade. The trees that used to hold...
10 Songs to Help Your Year Go Right
Congratulations! You made it to 2019! Personally, 2018 was a fairly good year: the one in which I was accepted to Kenyon, graduated from...
Turning Existential Dread Into Existential Joy
This summer, I had an existential crisis. You may have heard that existentialism is the philosophical theory that the world, and life, is...
A Very Incomplete List of Once And Current “Greats” And Why They’re Trash (In No Particular Order)
Charles Bukowski: I’ll let Charles speak for himself “... don’t wait for a good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you...
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend and How We Are All Rebecca Bunch: Mental Illness in TV
TW: mentions of attempted suicide Many movies and TV shows have attempted to tackle mental illness, but, in my opinion, none has been as...
Pros and Cons of a New "Avatar: The Last Airbender" Series
On September 18th, 2018, Netflix announced that they would be producing a live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series, which is set to...
The South-Asian Perspective on Kenyon
Don’t get me wrong, I love Kenyon. However, as with any educational institution in America, Kenyon is not perfect—far from it actually. In...
On Feeling
Once, during my junior year of high school, a senior boy apologized after accidentally hitting me with the door to the classroom we were...
“Mediocre”: It’s Going to be Okay
I was well acquainted with the names “Princeton,” “Harvard,” and “Yale” from a very young age. I vividly remember practicing spelling “...
4 Alternate Uses for Shaving Cream During No-Shave November
Well, folks, it’s that time of year again. The time of year when hipster beards are fully out and proudly on display, leg hair peeps out...
Our Path Forward?
A few weeks ago, I, along with four other students, was asked to participate in a dance that would be performed at a campaign kick-off gala...
Surviving the Holidays: Eating Disorder Edition
Every year during the holidays, you find yourself sat around a large table full of an exorbitant amount of food prepared by the people you...
Here We Come A-Wassailing
Growing up, my family didn’t have many holiday traditions. That’s not to say that our holidays together weren’t great, just that I couldn’t...
The Time I Tried BDSM
The night we met up for the first time, we met at a Mexican place off the highway. It was a gloomy Ohio day, but that somehow felt fitting...
Asking for Accommodations
Here’s a secret, one that has taken me years to admit: doors are damn heavy. In high school, I lugged my heavy backpack everywhere, filled...
