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Saints, Skeptics, and Sinners
I’ve got your holy week playlist right here Hi! Are you tired of spending holy week repenting for all the unholy weeks you’ve spent listening to Akon? Do you equate “doing penance” with listening (guilt free!) to the contents of the record store shelves labeled “Christian”? Do you find genuine catharsis in a Creed song? [...]
The Bitter Taste of Freedom Fries
or, What A Cartoon Taught Me About How To Make the World A Better Place By ERIN SINOGBA DISCUSSED: Standing up, Unrest, depictions of Mohammad, South Park‘s Cartoon Wars I don’t like reading the news sometimes. Let me qualify that. I don’t like reading the news lately, particularly when it involves violence and incorporates buzzwords [...]
A Matter of Seeing and Not Seeing
By ALICE SARMIENTO BIG TALK!: faith vs. religion, knowledge vs. belief, quantum physics, light Elephants feel the fatal footfalls of poachers a hundred miles off. On Sunday mornings, you won’t find me in church but at the coffee shop outside church, trying to work as the Bible study group beside me proclaims their joy at [...]
The Menu
When I Get Married, We Will Eat My Heart Out By LIZ LONGBOURN DISCUSSED: How I thought I had a type, but apparently I don’t. Dear Significant Other, Submitted for your approval, our fantasy wedding menu. Sincerely, Your Favorite P.S. I want a 25-foot-tall inflatable slide for the fantasy wedding. Our flower girls will forever [...]
The Weight of a Polar Bear, Madame? Why, Enough to Break the Ice Of Course
By KATHERINE LIMCAOCO DIAZ DISCUSSED: The criminality of a life plan, what ambition is really about, how to properly answer a terrifying first-date question One of the most terrifying questions on a first date has to be, “So what do you want to do?” It’s hard enough to decide on the night’s outfit, an entree, [...]
What I would do with a BA in English
By PAIGE OCCENOLA DISCUSSED: Perpetual Students, The next five years, Careers in fashion Five years from now I’ll be twenty-four, and I hope that means “grown-up” but not quite. I’d be renting a place my blockmate’s family owns, and every month we’d be using my share of the rent to buy booze. I hope to have a [...]
What Do You Do with a B.A. in English?
By BETTINA ROC DISCUSSED: Success? Uncertainty. Almost a month ago, after defending my undergraduate thesis, my dad asked me what I wanted to do after graduation. We were on the way home from my school along Katipunan, traversing The Other University I’d Wanted to Get Into. I remember brushing him off and telling him, “People [...]
The Future is a Book Dedicated to My Astrocherub
By ERIN EMOCLING DISCUSSED: hardcore physicians, drug literature, and genuine callings I am now in my mid-20s and I have graduated twice: both of which are medical courses and both of which are not related to my current line of work. I could present to you a complete narration of why I spent, or rather [...]
Preacher’s Failing
“My wish is that you manage to live the way you wish” Notes on ambition: 1) Find something worthy of love. 2) Become good at what I do. 3) Killer abs. What I realized about abs is that if I don’t have them now, at the tender age of 25, I will probably never have [...]
The Bitchness Business Review
By EDU IBAZETA DISCUSSED: The business of being a bitch, Throwing your hands up at us, Taylor Swift Cleopatra up following annual report; Marie Antoinette continues to drop. Cleopatra PLC stocks rose today by 57.56 points after reporting strong bitch figures from the previous quarter. During the briefing, the board revealed their long-term plans, providing [...]
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