Ahh, the mid-semester pause. A break too short for significant travel but just long enough for you to procrastinate on all those papers you have to write. The Editors looked back at our fondest memories of Breaks of Autumns Past. Continue reading
Category Archives: Reptilians
The Thrill’s Guide to Peirce Etiquette
Peirce. You know it, you love it, you probably misspell it. You’d better treat it right. So if you or a loved one suffer from acting like a clown in our only dining hall, these tips should set you straight. Continue reading
Thrill @ Nite
A Fond Farewell
Wow, it truly is the end of an era. Whether that era was good or bad is not for us to judge, but for you, the reader, to judge. But please don’t tell us, we hate judgment. Either way, the reign of Nate and Elise is drawing to a close.
A Final Paper Written by a Bot
a robot, an intellectual powerhouse, the next generation of scholar
I fed a bot papers about
- the childhood of the Buddha (my capstone)
- the Finnish Great Depression
- an anthropological analysis of how first-year college students do laundry
- uh, psychology
- Claudia Rankine
- Othello
- David Foster Wallace and Cormac McCarthy
- Irish beer, literally
and just mashed around until something came out. Below is a five-paragraph essay written by a bot (and me)
10 o’clock List: Reasons you should (please) hire me to be your intern
Look, I’m not stupid. I just feel like I am only getting dumber with every passing day. I don’t know if it’s the ultimately crushing feeling I get when a possible employer asks me why I didn’t study marketing, or if it’s my inability to just sit down and write a paper like I used to– but it’s something.
Continue readingIt Happened to All of Us: Echosmith Was Here
This past weekend was Kenyon’s annual Summer Sendoff, and as everyone knows, this year it was headlined by Echosmith, the pop band from our collective unconscious past (probably 2013? The year after the world was supposed to end, yes?) I was there for literally all of Echosmith, and here’s what I (and everyone who joined me on this journey) experienced.
