April is the cruelest month. It breeds last-ditch bad romances from the long-dead dating pool, mixes hastily-slapped-together thesis presentations with cheap grain alcohol, stirs dull recollections of utensils filched from dining halls months ago, and features a surprisingly bountiful amount of spring rain. More than that, though, it’s the time
Author: Lexie Kelly Wainwright
Dealing With Denial: Twelve Ways to Look at Rejection
I. Among twenty unread emails The only message marked “Important” Began with “We regret…” II. I am of three minds. The defensive mind, which maintains that I am the smartest and the most qualified and that the Powers that Be are subhuman boors who wouldn’t recognize genius if it bit
Dealing with Anxiety in College: Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff or the Big Stuff
Senior spring of high school was a time of bliss and much-deserved relaxation, of long afternoons spent blowing off class for impromptu trips to the beach with the dulcet tones of Rebecca Black wafting out of car windows. Senior spring of college is a hellish thing, the place where practical
The Link Between Vaccines and Altruism
My mother had always told me that vaccines caused autism, and now I’m a nervous wreck. This is not a very popular position in Claremont—my mother’s position, I mean (being a nervous wreck, on the other hand, has always been, and will most likely continue to be, all the rage).
‘The View From South Campus’ Goes North
Four-and-a-half months ago, I poured myself a glass of red wine, plunked down in front of my computer and proceeded to write a free-wheeling, allusion-happy introduction to TSL’s newest member of the Life & Style family: the ostensible ‘Senior Life’ column. I was, at that time, a newly-minted senior, three
A Pivotal Point: From North to South
Three years ago this month, a scrawny, flaxen-haired first-year stumbled into Walker Fishbowl, armed with a third-degree sunburn and a dream. Born of genuine desire to derive some kind of meaning from the collective experiences of the class of 2015, the dream was vague, to say the least, but it
Athletes Should Reconsider Entitled Dialogue
Dear Pomona College, You’re failing. You’ve been criticized so much lately for unionization politics and investment in fossil fuels that no one has noticed how incredibly entitled a number of your varsity athletes have become. Seriously, if last week’s Miller Time article—“The Under 1 percent”—was intended as satire, it
Taylor Swift Should Take Her Own Advice
I just can’t seem to get away from Taylor Swift these days. Cultural winds in celebrity-worshiping modern America are such that the release of any new album by a Top 40 artist is practically cause for a national holiday, and this, combined with Swift’s highly publicized performance at “Harvey Mudd
Verbal Tic, Like, Hampers Conversation
A few weeks ago, my mom came to visit campus. In an effort to steer her away from those obvious signs of collegiate debauchery that lie in wait around every corner, poised to spring out at a moment’s notice—a crushed Keystone can in the middle of Marston Quad here, a
Love the Individuals, Not the Group
A few weeks ago, a friend and regular sparring partner of mine and I were, well, sparring about something or other. I don’t even remember what our argument was about, but I know that I must have been losing, because in a fit of feigned fury I threw up my