Recently, I have begun to pay more attention to food: not just which foods I consume, but how they are made. Coming back to campus, I wanted to shed some light on the ingredients that are used to make the meals available to students. Everyone assumes most of them are unhealthy. While that may be the […]
When two people first start dating, the newness of everything makes every kiss and touch feel like fireworks. But inevitably that “new” feeling starts to fade, and especially after a year or two together it can be easy to fall into a routine when it comes to sex. If you’re anything like Dill, that new, […]
This past weekend, I decided to attend a two-night camping trip programmed by the Wesleyan Jewish Community (WJC). However, deciding to sign up for this trip wasn’t the easiest or most obvious choice for me. On move-in day of my freshman year, a group of enthusiastic and charismatic upperclassmen representatives from the WJC handed my […]
Welcome to Pillow Talk, a new weekly column where we (Dill & Doe) will discuss all things sex and intimacy. Dill is a straight woman with experience in a long term relationship, but now she’s back to navigating hookups and situationships. Doe has experience dating both men and women, and is currently in her first […]
Content warning: This article contains mention of familial death. On Sunday, Sept. 22, 2002, my dad was facing a unique conflict of interests: on one hand, his wife had just gone into labor. On the other hand, Season 4, Episode 2 of “The Sopranos” was airing. From that first (literal) birthday, spent crying and screaming […]
Last fall, as my friends were doing last minute packing for college or sending me pictures of their newly decorated dorm rooms, I was packing up a duffel bag and trying to break in a new pair of work boots. Instead of heading off for my first semester of college, I was going to Eugene, […]
In July of 2022, days after the Dobbs V. Jackson Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe V. Wade, Wesleyan Reproductive Advocacy & Legislation’s Instagram was hit with a flurry of messages. What resources could college students access? Could Wesleyan provide housing for people looking to get abortions? And most excitingly for us, students from Wesleyan […]
Paul Bloom’s book, “Against Empathy” calls attention to the danger of empathizing with others as the form of empathy you employ will often reflect your own biases and prejudices onto the situations of other people. After reading bits and pieces of this book, I wondered: can empathy be forgery? And I realized that the answer […]
I start dreading the question in May, though it won’t be asked for another few months. Just thinking of the words, “How was your summer?” sends a chill down my spine. I’m being dramatic, but still. Perhaps it’s asked innocently enough, either because the asker is genuinely interested in how I’m doing or we don’t […]
I love “Survivor.” I initially got into Survivor in 2012 when Hurricane Sandy swept through New York City. I was living in Lower Manhattan at the time, so things weren’t great. In retrospect, it could have been much worse, but it still wasn’t ideal for the eleven-year-old version of myself. We didn’t have electricity, so […]