Sabrina Carpenter has been inescapable this summer—from my friends playing “Please Please Please” at max volume in my car (originally against my will) to messages etched in the walls of Berkshire...

I never believed in the importance of the buddy system until my friend got stuck in a tree well. A few years ago, I went on a ski trip with my friend, Will. Cruising down the mountain, we felt...

I am sure everyone has been locked out of their house at least once and stood sullenly outside the door with a mixture of self-resentment and irritation. The only way out of such a predicament,...

Recently, my dad and I have become obsessed with Funyuns—a snack food that my father’s convinced will cause the intestinal villi to gain consciousness and revolt. However, my dad’s “warning”...

Last December, “Mean Girls (2024)” arrived in theaters. Complete with iconic lines like “Fetch!” and “The limit does not exist,” the musical movie was adapted from the Broadway musical,...

Living in a city means enduring the sound of car engines rumbling until midnight, the early-morning beeping of cranes and drills, pigeons—or geese in Boston—pecking the sidewalk, and herds...

I really don’t like working with other people, which is why I was thrilled to give the most important presentation of my summer by myself. Standing in a room of 30 people, I began: “Like...

I awoke one morning in July of 2022 to the sound of rain pounding my cabin door. I looked over to my friend as we both had the same sad realization: Despite the droves of rain we heard outside,...

Childish Gambino, aka Donald Glover, has been a creative presence in the entertainment industry for almost 20 years. He was first thrust into the public eye just a few months before I was born...

For the past four years, “Bridgerton” has dominated screens and conversations. We follow every season’s “diamond,” every Lady Danbury quip, and every Whistledown issue. “Bridgerton”...

At 4 or 5, I took my first stab at comedy. Though I hardly recall the details, my mom and dad won’t let me forget. “Mommy and Daddy, can I ask you a joke?” I exclaimed. “Okay, Potato!”...

This summer, my best friend Eliza Cohen ’25 introduced me to the quintessential movies of the early 2000s. Our cinematic journey included hits like, “Miss Congeniality,” “Mean Girls,”...