The pandemic has led many people to question beliefs surrounding introversion. Some people ended up thriving in a socially limited environment, some are finding that re-entering into their “normal” social lives is overwhelming. Others coped with quarantine by viewing their condensed world through the “main-character” lens. Now approaching its 20-year anniversary, it is the perfect […]
Author: Madison Morin
Memoir-turned-film Prozac Nation shows the story of Elizabeth Wurtzel during her college days, a girl clinically depressed, and perpetually obsessed with Lou Reed. The book is based on Wurtzel’s real experiences, and as I write my review on the Velvet Underground documentary, I can’t help but think of an article Wurtzel wrote as a freshman […]
Deep in the Wheaton archives lie the personal letters of professor Helen Wieand Cole describing her experience at Wheaton during the Spanish influenza of 1918. “The 1918 pandemic, strangely, left little mark on the campus,” wrote Mark Armstrong, Wheaton’s archivist and records manager. Cole’s letters to her sister are the only accounts Wheaton has of […]