Written by: Hannah Dang DISCLAIMER: The following blog post contains spoilers for Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians book series and the Disney+ series. I caution you to read at your own risk. From the moment I learned the English alphabet, I’ve loved reading. Instead of going outside to…
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Why Do I Suddenly Want to Read Nonfiction?
Written by: Jenna Ulizio Reading has always been an escape for me. In middle school, when reading bloomed into one of my most favorite things, it was fantasy that had me holed up for hours, marveling over how someone could draw me so completely from reality. I study English and History; I read a lot of…
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I Was a Computer Engineer, How Did I Get Here?
Written by: Edwige Edouard Everyone comes to college for different reasons. It could be to chase that dream job that would make you feel like you’re making a change in the world. Another reason could be that you want to make sure that you’re set up for a great job…
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Acceptance and Growing Up: A Review of The Boy and the Heron
Written by: Kaitlin Anderson Despite being a diehard fan of Ghibli movies, I often struggle to describe how they make me feel. Many of them have required multiple watch-throughs just to take everything in. It’s easy to get swept away by the animation and music while losing track of the…
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There is Art in (Almost) Everything
Written by: Edwige Edouard There’s art almost everywhere you look. That song you’re listening to? It sounds like a masterpiece to you, but it could sound like nails on a chalkboard to someone else. Graffiti tags all over that abandoned building that has yet to be destroyed? Some might glance…
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Mary Oliver: Animal Symbolism and Lessons in Belonging
Written by: Ryan Krishna Mary Oliver spent many years of her life exploring the forests, lakes, and salt marshes of New England. For Oliver, animals were never simply background decoration; they were moral companions that guided the lives of the individuals they came into contact with. These animals often represent…
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Layers of the Punisher
Written by: Ronnie Prado On September 16, 1979, a group of small-time New Jersey musicians released a song that would usher a whole new era of music into mainstream American culture. The group was called The Sugar Hill Gang, and the song “Rappers Delight” was the first of its kind…
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The Dread of Being Read at Writing Workshops
Written by: Fernanda Ieffet I think I speak for everyone in the world when I say that each one of us has experienced the most terrifying of nightmares when we were younger: going to school naked. I can still remember vividly (and trust me I have tried hard to forget…
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Emotional Maximalism and the Art of Deftness in Hera Lindsay Bird’s Love Poems
Written by: Charlotte Ungar In a poetry landscape often dominated by academic opacity or over-wrought lyricism, Hera Lindsay Bird’s work arrives with an emotional immediacy that will make you rethink the requirements to make a poem matter—not through formal precision or metaphorical restraint, but through the sheer force of unfiltered…
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Valuable Lessons About Writing Poetry I Wish I Knew Sooner
Written by: Liam Smith For someone who’s studied poetry for 3 years, it seems I can only talk about it through drawn-out idiosyncrasies. Jack Dayton, one of my co-editors at Queer Reviewed (a magazine for UConn’s queer students) recently asked me how to improve as a poet. My mind instantly…