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Word on the Street

Election Reflection: Orly Greenberg C'18

I have a theory about being a third child: either you’re quiet or you make yourself heard. 

by ORLY GREENBERG

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

Election Reflection: Emily Johns C'17

On Wednesday morning I felt like my voice had been ripped out of me.

by EMILY JOHNS

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

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

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

Election Reflection: Noah Katcher W'17

I grew up next to a farm, in the middle of nowhere.

by NOAH KATCHER

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

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

America the Selfish

Buying the right to vote isn't always an option

by SOFIE PRAESTGAARD

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

Election Reflection: Jamie–Lee Josselyn

“This is what America looks like! Show me what America sounds like!”

by JAMIE-LEE JOSSELYN

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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