Table of Contents
Editors’ Notes
by William Morgan | Editor
Leeore Schnairsohn | Managing Editor
Megan Maxfield, Madison Hilligoss, and Jules Talbot | Junior Editors
If It Looks Like a Cult
by Crystal Baik | Writing the Essay
The Sexism of the Self
by Taylor Borthwick | Writing the Essay
Boredom, Art, and Evolution
by Kelli Converso | The Advanced College Essay: The World Through Art
The Lessons of “Montero”
by Olivia Federici | The Advanced College Essay: Steinhardt
The Ethics of Thrifting
by Lea Filidore | The Advanced College Essay: Steinhardt
The Silence That Kills
by Qiyun Gao | The Advanced College Essay: The World Through Art
The Audacity to Hate
by Ashley Kang | Writing the Essay
The Gilded Cage: Social Media and Fashion Consumption
by Aidan La Poche | The Advanced College Essay: The World Through Art
The Stuyvesant Controversy and the Lose-Lose Fight over Educational Access
by Joyce Li | Writing the Essay
Holding My Breath For Your Story
by Emerald Lin | Writing the Essay
* Student Editorial Board Citation *
CRISPR: God Simulator?
by Iris (Jingxuan) Liu |International Writing Workshop II (Tandon)
“Bringing the Beatles Back to Hamburg”: Aspects of National Identity in Wim Wenders’s The American Friend
by Nicholas Mahoney | The Advanced College Essay: Steinhardt
Smartphones and the New Flesh
by Nicholas Mahoney | Writing the Essay
Beneath the Surface: The Fight for Environmental Justice
by Max Miniewicz | Writing the Essay
Broken Glass in Film City
by Felicia Grünbaum Powell-Jones |A Spectrum of Essays
Love Sick
by Libby Ronon | Writing the Essay: Art and the World
The Taste of Home
by Ray Wang | Writing the Essay
Black Means Run
by Kailyn Williams | Writing the Essay
* Student Editorial Board Citation *
Taxi Driver and the Rage of the Incel
by Stanley Yang | International Writing Workshop II
The Translation of Critical Thinking
by Stacey Zhu | International Writing Workshop II