I grew up in church. My mother would faithfully take me every single Sunday as a kid. I was a part of the children's choir until I was...

I was 12 when I saw palm trees for the first time. I had never traveled beyond the East Coast before; my parents preferred road trips to...

Female lobsters have smaller claws than males. Their roe is emerald green, but once cooked, it turns into a bright orange that matches...

Somewhere in Los Angeles on a warm night in October, Olivia Rodrigo twiddles a ring around her thumb as she sits on the edge of the stage...

“Tell me what company you keep, and I will tell you what you are!” Who even made that quote anyway? If I had a dollar for every time I...

It was the end of October when I started seeing them—the big red juice dispensers and plastic containers with bread in them. I had not...

Although ChatGPT had been making headlines for months, I somehow managed to avoid it entirely. I am what you would call “old-school.” I...

In preparing for the March 2023 launch of this online magazine of Hunter College student journalism, Professor David Alm of the Film &...

This article originally ran in 2019 on The Bridge, Hunter College's former student magazine. Sometimes words don’t sit quite right in...

I was still trying to establish a spot in the fridge to wedge my groceries in when New York announced its quarantine. My new home was...

It was close to midnight on December 31st of 2021 as I lay on my parents' bed with 12 grapes and a cup of apple cider. My dad sat next to...

Hidden behind black gates and the food trucks lining Fifth Avenue, familiar faces and new ones passing through frequent the spot. It’s a...

The old lightbulbs in the kitchen mixed with the chipped paint on the walls cast an orange glow. The smell of tomato sauce envelopes the...

The water of one of the fountains in front of the Metropolitan Museum of Art slaps as it falls. It’s not a natural sound, rather manmade...