This past weekend, while many of my friends switched over to kosher dietary restrictions or caught the train to New York for Passover Seder, I packed my brother and a backpack into my car for a drive to Cambridge, Massachusetts. Our parents were simultaneously driving over from Vermont to meet us there. The plan was […]
To this day, the sound of any live reed instrument still yields a physical reaction in my body. I feel suddenly liable to fold my lips over my teeth and press them together so hard that they turn white while an uncomfortable chill travels through me. Every child in my family was forced to play […]
Content warning: This article contains references to suicide and suicidal thoughts. “Have you ever had thoughts about suicide?” I was asked a version of this question while trying to get extra time accommodations for exams in my STEM classes during my freshman year. My answer was initially, “no, I haven’t,” and, at the time, it was true. This […]
Content Warning: This article mentions euthanizing pets. Everyone thinks they have a terrible move-in story. Moving in while it’s pouring rain? It rains, like, once a week in Middletown; you may as well get used to it. Have to get situated without help because of COVID-19 restrictions? At least you were allowed back on campus. […]
The opinions, beliefs, and arguments of this opinion piece do not align with the viewpoints or priorities of The Wesleyan Argus as a student-led institution. Content warning: This article contains references to death. When I was younger I realized there were a lot of very bad things that could happen to people. I’d hear stories watching […]
It was the first midnight of May, and the smell of weed and alcohol wafted through the crowd. The band onstage was screaming something about resilience and love, and I stood on the outskirts, feeling my breath warm the skin under my mask. Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont had just declared that masked outdoor gatherings were […]
Julia Cameron’s book “The Artist’s Way” outlines a set of practices to help refresh the inner artist dormant within all of us. At one point, Cameron discusses the phenomena that some people don’t consider themselves to be creative because they have internalized criticism from those around them that has resulted in the construction of a creative block. The way […]
In the wake of Monday’s Valentine’s Day celebrations, as I start making plans to watch Sunday’s upcoming episode of “Euphoria,” I can’t stop thinking about the one thing that seems to be on everybody’s mind, all the time: sex. From Yik Yak to Tinder, students are using every platform at their disposal to secure their […]
Wesleyan University resumed in-person classes only three weeks ago. That means that there are still twelve weeks left in the semester, and I don’t know about you, but I’m already burnt out. Case in point: yesterday, I took two naps when I had been planning on doing work all day. I keep forgetting to turn […]
Last semester, I wrote about how COVID-19 restrictions prevented students from taking full advantage of the Drop/Add period. We could not always sit in on classes we were not yet enrolled in due to capacity limits in classrooms that were not up to the discretion of teachers. With no way to know what the class […]