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Unauthorized Syllabi: The Word

Posted on March 3, 2024April 19, 2024 by Nora Hylton

I begin with love, hoping to end there.  Recently, for an (alleged) society interview, I was asked the question “What is important to you?” With a combination of a desire to be truthful and a compulsion to be interesting, I said that language was very important to me. I don’t think they loved this answer….

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an authorized syllabus

Posted on December 14, 2023December 15, 2023 by Tyler Watts

a guest column by Tyler Watts ’25 creative director How have I been living?  Frankly I don’t know. I don’t live in routines, but I have rituals that shift around temporally. Regardless of when they occur: they always get done. My habituals are: eat-sleep-read-write-phone-coffee-singanddance-halfearnestprayer-burnincense-callfamily-seefriendsandacquaintances-plustimetimealone-lone-lone.  How do I live my life? Ask the sun how it…

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unauthorized syllabi: eight

Posted on April 27, 2023December 4, 2023 by Michelle Ampofo

a bi-weekly column by michelle ampofo ’25 managing editor ✶✶✶  an iron pillar. I KNOW MORE NOW THAN I’VE EVER KNOWN.  That’s all. That’s the intro.  ✶✶✶  J.k. because I feel like ending the year that way would be super anti-climactic. But I still don’t want to come up with something new to write… So…

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unauthorized syllabi: seven

Posted on April 9, 2023December 4, 2023 by Michelle Ampofo

a bi-weekly column by michelle ampofo ‘25 managing editor  ✶✶✶ ALL THINGS MUST GO This column is mostly recommendations this week because I’ve abandoned thought, though not consideration. But first, a word. We’re so close to the end of the school year. SO close. But I feel increasingly contained and uninspired. So I want to…

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unauthorized syllabi: six

Posted on February 26, 2023December 4, 2023 by Michelle Ampofo

a bi-weekly column  by michelle ampofo ’25 managing editor  ✶✶✶  Alchemy  Although something tells me I might be mistaken, I had the strangest encounter yesterday. I was on a train.  I was returning to New Haven from elsewhere, thinking late thoughts. While pondering these thoughts, an old man of around 80 came and sat next…

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