By: Tyler Watts Creative Director Happy solar returns to the Scorpios and Sagittarians! We are in the aftermath of the solar eclipse of the new moon in Scorpio, and there is a lunar eclipse during the full moon in Taurus in the middle of November. Jupiter is in Pisces creating a wave of ethereal optimism….
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DOWN Reads
This week features recommendations from Nora Hylton ’25, our wonderful Criticism Editor. The Idiot Summary: A spiraling presentation of the first year of college told from the perspective of Selin, a Turkish-American student at Harvard Univeristy. The novel follows the narrator as she rambles her way through making friends, struggling in classes, and becomes involved…
unauthorized syllabi: two
a biweekly column By Michelle Ampofo ’25 Managing Editor I’ve been feeling existential this week, which tends to happen when I’m worn out and sleep-deprived. It’s days like these when I begin to feel like my life is a means to an end. Like I’m stuck in the prelude. In waiting. And it makes me…
October Monthly Horoscopes
It’s October! Happy Solar Return to all the Libras and Scorpios! Let’s see what’s in store for all the signs as the chill begins to bloom through the air. Mercury stations direct from its retrograde October 2nd, and the aftereffects will dissipate after the 16th. There is a full moon in Aries October 9th, and…
Falling into Fall: DOWN playlists
A collection of songs carefully curated by DOWN staff that set the tone for autumn.