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(03/20/24 4:37am)
I have scattered memories of dancing as a child. My twin sister and I would imitate Candace and Vanessa in “Busted” from Phineas and Ferb as the segment from the TV show played behind us. I recall stealing the dance floor at a family function, freely moving to will.i.am’s “#thatPOWER” with my cousins cheering me on. I still remember stomping my feet to the futuristic, echoey beat. And I ingrained the choreography of “We’re All In This Together” from High School Musical at a house party — well, the Just Dance version, at least.
(03/20/24 2:15am)
At 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 29, I walked through the tall glass doors of Addy Hall to the New College West Coffee Club. It was one of those frigid, blustery East Coast days, the kind that chills the tips of noses and ears and turns students into hunched, shuffling puffer-jacket soldiers. The trek to New College West alone turned my hair into a tangled mess, stealing breath from my lungs as I pulled my thin Whitman jacket close. But I would not be deterred. I was on a mission for a free London Fog.
(11/15/23 2:25am)
Holiday birthdays may initially seem like a disadvantage, especially for those whose birthdays fall in December and who may be handed a card that joyously says, “Merry Birthday!” However, I feel especially lucky (and thankful, of course) to have a birthday near Thanksgiving.
(11/15/23 2:44am)
For some people, Thanksgiving is the forgotten middle child of the holidays. Halloween has months of anticipation: watching scary movies, planning a costume, and decorating the front steps. Christmas takes plenty of planning: buying gifts, decorating the house, planning Christmas parties. Thanksgiving is left in the middle as the holiday that people use as an excuse to eat a ridiculous amount of food without being judged.
(11/13/23 5:16am)
Turquoise truths rushing towards me, usurp the clear lies that have already reached me.
(10/31/23 5:05am)
The Halloween of my childhood began with the sound of rain. Soft at first, then steady, it tapped on my windowsill at night, a Morse code translating to one word: fall. In the morning, it was there in the smell of the wet sidewalks, the adventurous worms strewn across the cracks, and the damp leaves pressed into the concrete by the shoes of kids traipsing to school.
(10/27/23 1:49am)
In the months leading up to my move to New Jersey, my family was constantly anxious that I would be so far away. In the summer I had before leaving home, there were always questions of “what if something happens, and we can’t get to her?” or “what if she needs us and can’t get back home?” I told my family that everything would be fine. I was just a flight away, and if I truly needed to get home, I would.
(10/09/23 3:28am)
For the Wang family, fully celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival — meant to bring families together — in West Virginia is seemingly impossible when most of the family is a 12-hour flight away in China.
(10/09/23 1:24am)
Most people don’t find themselves yearning to grow up in a small Kentucky town. And as someone who grew up there, I spent years wishing I was anywhere else. Wishing I lived in a city where the best hangout spot wasn’t a run-down mall with a movie theater, Dollar Store, Roses, and Shoe Show. Wishing my hometown was known for something more than being a crater in the Appalachian Mountains — yes, my hometown was actually built in a crater. Wishing I didn’t have to drive two hours to go anywhere remotely interesting.
(09/28/23 2:01am)
Every year as fall rolls around, East Asian and Southeast Asian communities gather to celebrate. Whether you know it as the Mid-Autumn Festival or Chuseok, September is a time to give thanks for the harvest and for harmonious reunions. This year, we asked our editors and staffers to see what this time of the year looks like for Princeton students and their families.
(09/15/23 2:58am)
Last February, I found out that I had been selected for the ReachOut Fellowship, a Princeton program that selects senior undergraduate students to complete year-long independent service projects both within and outside of the United States. For my project, I had proposed to spend a year living in Santiago, the capital of Chile, and working with the Museum of Memory and Human Rights and the Living Refugee Archive. I was nervous to move so far away from home, but I knew that I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to experience a different culture and learn about Chilean history at such a crucial time. This September marks the 50th anniversary of the military coup that initiated Chile’s 17-year dictatorship. For my project, I would conduct interviews with people who were exiled from Chile during the dictatorship.
(09/15/23 9:20pm)
“Let’s face it, most research is useless.”
(09/08/23 1:48am)
On day four of COVID-19 isolation, I was so starved for social interaction that my ears immediately perked up to the sound of my RCA Chioma Ugwonali ’24 (a literal angel on earth) placing a small paper package just outside my dorm room at 10:30 a.m. From the unmistakable rustling sound of paper, I already knew she had left a baked good for me.
(09/20/23 2:37am)
With a dazed sense of what to focus on, a blank stare is all I mustered as I faced the iPhone’s minutely pixelated screen, which occasionally lagged. On the WeChat video call, my face was visible in a small rectangle occupying the upper-right corner of the screen while the rest of it showed the faces of my maternal grandparents.
(08/24/23 3:01am)
Dispatches at The Prospect are brief reflections from our writers that focus on their experiences during the summer.
(08/10/23 1:36am)
Dispatches at The Prospect are brief reflections from our writers that focus on their experiences during the summer.
(08/10/23 1:04am)
Dispatches at The Prospect are brief reflections from our writers that focus on their experiences during the summer.
(08/10/23 1:07am)
Dispatches at The Prospect are brief reflections from our writers that focus on their experiences during the summer.
(07/27/23 3:26am)
Dispatches at The Prospect are brief reflections from our writers that focus on their experiences during the summer.
(07/14/23 6:49pm)
Dispatches at The Prospect are brief reflections from our writers that focus on their experiences during the summer.