I am already falling behind. I am 100 days into college and I have more freedom than I ever have. They say that eighteen is the pinnacle of youth, but I have yet to feel the cosmic shift and teenage ...

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Recently, I have been conscientious of presence. The way one holds themselves. The way one walks with purpose. The way one eats alone in the glowing sunlight. Before college, I thought if one was by ...

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Berthe Morisot, “Child in a Red Apron” (L’Enfant au tablier rouge), 1886. Oil on canvas. Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence. Berthe Morisot’s paintings of girls are very sensitive. The ...

On Friday, Dec. 5, Cass Sunstein, one of the most widely cited legal scholars and the Robert Walmsley university professor at Harvard Law School, delivered a talk at Swarthmore. The lecture, “Nudging ...

In The Phoenix’s final edition of the year, we wanted to reflect, as the opinions editors, on a busy and productive semester and share our hopes for the future of the section. In our view, the primary ...

Not every artist begins with pencils or paint; Noble De Marco ’26 started with fish. “About 200 of them,” he told me, casually, like this was some typical origin story. Long before painting still life ...

The patriarchy and capitalism came together and birthed the phrase “I’ll just marry rich.” Many young women say this phrase in response to a hardship they are experiencing, often in school: “Finals ...

The National Hockey League’s (NHL) opening day was Oct. 7 this season. As you may know, the NHL sucks the last ounce of consumerism out of sports fans by making their season span six months of 82 ...

The complete results of the poll, in addition to a breakdown of this semester’s approval ratings compared to the spring semester’s, can be found below. On Dec. 3, The Phoenix sent its second campus ...

Tell us about your plans for winter break. Ruby Polansky ’28: I’m going to go home and I’m gonna see my sister and my parents. And I’m going to play some lacrosse and apply for some jobs. Elizabeth ...