It’s not until mile five that I get that flying feeling.
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There are red modes and green modes and phases of arrival; weekly testing, mandatory masking, and “enhanced” remote formats; a .02 coronavirus positivity rate at “peer institutions”; and an expected 1,700 undergraduate Smith students welcome back on campus.
Dear Smith College students, faculty, staff, and fellow alums, Recently, a White staff member at the College began posting inflammatory videos to a YouTube account,…
As college students around the country awaited an announcement from their school’s leadership regarding the decision for the Fall 2020 semester, people everywhere were asking a similar logistical question: what do I think is the best solution for education during a pandemic?
We asked the Ada community if they had any advice they wished they could go back and tell their younger selves. Here’s what they told us…
I remember once walking into ninth grade English a few minutes early, hoping to clock in a few pages of Twilight before the bell rang-- a book my older sister recommended, and with which I was quickly becoming obsessed.
At any moment over the past few weeks, it seems like someone somewhere is imploring the American people to vote. From Instagram to Smith administration emails to the plane flying above my Pennsylvania hometown with a banner reminding us to send in our ballots, it’s a message that comes in from all sides: Vote, vote, vote.
Lately, I’ve been trying to locate the things for which I am thankful, even in the midst of what is arguably one of the most uncertain moments of my lifetime. The past six months have felt blurred somehow, as though the haze of this pandemic has permeated nearly everything we do; the spaces we inhabit, the people we surround ourselves with, the parts of the world within which we seek refuge. It has felt impossible not to fixate on the enormity of it; the manifold ways in which it can encumber us.
“Hi there Billy, I am the one that took your sign,” began local student Zahra Ashe-Simmer’s open letter to a Northampton community Facebook page, where she sparked nearly one thousand comments about a controversial yard sign commissioned by Northampton resident Billy Park.
Photo courtesy of Charlotte Samuels Approximately one month ago, my senior year of college abruptly came to an end and I packed all of my…