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Postcard from Morningside, May 2020
By Kate Steiner
Kate Steiner


Centerfold, May 2020
By Brooke McCormick
Brooke McCormick
In Which Our Hero Takes a Pandemic for a Plague
By Sydney Contreras “Huzzah!” cried Verily gleefully upon watching the last of his suitemates roll their Hartley moving bins into the...
Sydney Contreras
Chores and Chainsaws
In lieu of luminaries, learning from a seasoned telecommuter.
Sylvie Epstein

Don’t You Just Love Quarantining in LA?
Affirmative By Harris Solomon It’s soft and warm inside my bed. I’m dreaming about ahi tuna and equitable wealth redistribution when a...
Harris Solomon and Nicole Kohut
from Brookline
By Sylvie Epstein The towns of the Eastern Seaboard like to call my name. and gray plush on the passenger’s seat flashes with the passing...
Sylvie Epstein
to all
By Samia Menon I can only describe things that are real: sharp air that tastes like the color of hospital lights, yellow summers that...
Samia Menon

Pixelated Peers
Matriculate overcomes barriers to advise low-income prospies.
Chase Cutarelli
Party of One
On libations in isolation.
Eliza Rudalevige
Disco Lights and the Divide
Columbia’s small but mighty low-income community transformed my first year.
Raquel Turner

Self-Love in the Time of Corona
Resetting my sleep cycle for my own damn good.
Dominy Gallo

Mistakes Were Made
On sweating the small stuff.
Sophia Cornell

In Limbo
How do you go home during a pandemic when you don’t have one?
Elysa Caso-McHugh

Yasmeen Asali
By Raquel Turner In early March, I met Yasmeen Asali, CC ’20, in the Astronomy Department’s hub in Pupin. When I arrived at the door, she...
Raquel Turner

Aanand Shah
By Elizabeth Jackson I began interviewing Aanand Shah, CC ‘20, with what I thought was an easy question: “Where are you from originally?”...
Elizabeth Jackson


Blue Notes, May 2020
Quarantine dispatches from Golden Gate Park, Bowdoin, Jersey, and the National Mall.
The Blue and White Magazine
Letter from the Editor, May 2020
By Sam Needleman This isn’t how it was supposed to go! We were working on our April issue when the Bad News came, and we were forced to...
Sam Needleman
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