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Election Reflection: Angela Huang C'19
At 3 AM this morning, I held one of my best friends in my arms while he sobbed, cradling his face in his hands.
by ANGELA HUANG
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Election Reflection: Emily Johns C'17
On Wednesday morning I felt like my voice had been ripped out of me.
by EMILY JOHNS
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Election Reflection: Heba Arshad W'18
In high school, I was voted "most likely to become president.” I’m laughing at the irony.
by HEBA ARSHAD
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Caroline Guenoun W'18
I planned to watch the election results with a couple of friends while I studied for my exam the next day.
by CAROLINE GUENOUN
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Election Reflection: Sophie Beren C'17
A friend once told me, “The minute you realize that the rest of the world doesn’t think like you, that’s when you grow.”
by SOPHIE BEREN
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Election Reflection: Noah Katcher W'17
I grew up next to a farm, in the middle of nowhere.
by NOAH KATCHER
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Election Reflection: Olivia Nelson W'17
My parents moved to this country nearly 25 years ago. I wish I could say that being born and growing up in America has always made me feel like I belonged, but it has not.
by OLIVIA NELSON
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Election Reflection: Ian Jeong N '17
There is a long silence between you and your best friend. You don’t speak, you two don’t reach out.
by IAN JEONG
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America the Selfish
Buying the right to vote isn't always an option
by SOFIE PRAESTGAARD
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Election Reflection: Darlene Hodge Rodriguez C'20
This election filled me with so much hate and anger. My heart was heavy and the way I was feeling was incredibly unfamiliar.
by DARLENE HODGE RODRIGUEZ
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Election Reflection: Jamie–Lee Josselyn
“This is what America looks like! Show me what America sounds like!”
by JAMIE-LEE JOSSELYN
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Election Reflection: Caleb Chodosh C'18
Campus felt different on Wednesday. The unthinkable, unprecedented, incomprehensible happened. On Friday January 17, in the year 2017, Donald J.
by CALEB CHODOSH
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Election Reflection: Irtiqa Fazili
When people can support a movement that rejects you (whatever their reasons are - social, economic, anti-establishment, whatever) it hurts.
by IRTIQA FAZILI
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Election Reflection: Anonymous C'17
I am a twenty-one-year-old woman and a senior in the College; last July a man whose name I don’t know raped me; last night this country knowingly elected a serial predator.
by ANONYMOUS
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Election Reflection: Miranda Lupion C'17
This election is personal. Nervous introductions filled my first day as an intern at Embassy Moscow’s Press Office, but, by that evening, I realized I had met mostly men.
by MIRANDA LUPION
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Election Reflection: Krishnan Sethumadhavan
I’m a brown man. I get selected for extra screening when I don’t shave for a few days.
by KRISHNAN SETHUMADHAVAN
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Election Reflection: Nya Wilkins
I keep seeing stuff that says “Not my President” and “Not my America” but the truth is this is my America.
by NYA WILKINS
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Election Reflection: Jacob Barnes C'19
I think a lot of people are going to say that they are saddened by what happened on Tuesday night.
by JACOB BARNES
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Election Reflection: Eduardo Marroquin C'20
Even as an international student from Mexico, I can say that I have experienced the election process from start to finish.
by EDUARDO MARROQUIN
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Election Reflection: Michelle Shen
I was filled with shock--it was like watching wave gathering upon wave turning into a massive swell that hit me and dragged me underneath.
by MICHELLE SHEN
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