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Caroline Hurley
Letter From the Editor, December 2018
By Caroline Hurley You think you know someone until it comes time to buy them a Christmas gift. You’re frantically browsing Oprah...
Caroline Hurley
Letter From the Editor, October 2018
By Caroline Hurley I think that there’s something to be said for confusion; that feeling of untethered loss; that state of cognitive...


The Blue and White Magazine
Letter From the Editor, Orientation 2018
The first picture of me as a student on campus was taken unsurprisingly on move-in day, unsurprisingly by my mom. It’s a series of...


The Blue and White Magazine
Letter From the Editor, May 2018
I’ll admit it–when Professor Erik Gray brought up Lionel Trilling in this month’s Conversation interview (pg. 20), I had absolutely no...


The Blue and White Magazine
Letter From the Editor, April 2018
The Major League Baseball home opener for my hometown team is April 5th this year. The Yankees take to the diamond on April 2nd—who cares...


The Blue and White Magazine
Letter From the Editor, February 2018
Recently I remarked to a friend how it felt to visit Carman 10 after almost two years since I moved out. Looking out the window by the...


The Blue and White Magazine
Letter From the Editor, December 2017
By David Alexander Swanson Thanksgiving has passed. Out march the elves and the reindeer, the snowmen and candy canes in their cohorts....


The Blue and White Magazine
Letter From the Editor, Orientation 2017
By David Alexander Swanson To the Class of 2021, allow me to be the 600th to welcome you to our hallowed halls, and to be the first to...

The Blue and White Magazine
Letter from the Editor, March 2017
by Alex Swanson There’s a particular sense of dejection on campus around midterms. I myself write this, sleep deprived, writing-hand in...


The Blue and White Magazine
Letter From the Editor
Writing my first Editor-in-chief’s letter a day after the inauguration of President Trump puts me in quite the odd position. The syzygy...


The Blue and White Magazine
Letter from the Editor, October 2016
During my freshman year I tripped while walking up the stairs in Ferris and cut my head without realizing it. I got up thinking I was...


The Blue and White Magazine
Letter from the Editor, Orientation 2016
It has become somewhat of a summer tradition for me to make a very ambitious to-do list (this year’s included learning to program in Java...
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