Top 5 places to break up on campus
Posted inFeatured Local Student Life

Top 5 places to break up on campus

Love may blossom in DC, but it also likes to die loudly in public. After seeing more breakups than we ever asked for, we’ve noticed some spots on campus are just objectively the wrong setting for heartbreak. So, if your situationship is getting stale, or you just found out your partner’s been “studying” with someone else, follow this guide to the top five worst places to end it all—romantically, of course. 
The Archive of Absence: A relationship with no transcript
Posted inEssay Featured Student Life

The Archive of Absence: A relationship with no transcript

1,019 messages were discarded when I pressed delete. 1,019 messages were what iMessage was referring to when it prompted "This conversation will be deleted from all your devices." 1,019 messages were sent back and forth over a period of four months. A relationship's strength can't and shouldn't be measured by characters on a little screen, but when you question if what you cared for was even real, you gather up every little artifact, hoping those little slivers of paper don't get lost on the way to your confetti jar. The delete button is easy. It's the aftermath that's harder, when I wonder if erasing the evidence erases the experience itself. Not that there was much evidence of a relationship to begin with; in a courtroom there would be reasonable doubt.
Bloggers Review: Fries on campus
Posted inLocal Restaurant Reviews Reviews

Bloggers Review: Fries on campus

Blog feels that we have a moral obligation to use our powers of taste-making and superior judgement to aid the uneducated in seeking out the best food on campus. Of particular interest to us are fries, the ultimate side, the perfect snack, the primordial sauce vessel.
Posted inStudent Life

WRGW senior farewells

By Emma Khodaverdian When I first stepped into college radio, I didn’t know I was stepping into the most consistent love of my college experience. I wasn’t the typical DJ.…
HONEST AND MERCIFUL: Scene journalist Taylor Ruckle talks DMV music
Posted inStudent Life

HONEST AND MERCIFUL: Scene journalist Taylor Ruckle talks DMV music

We’ve said it before, D.C. music is in a weird place. Often the scene can feel aimless and lacking in community, not nearly as together as cities like Philly, Pittsburgh, or New York with their strong emo, shoegaze, and punk pockets, respectively. Maybe you think it’s been slowly dying since harDCore fizzled out in the 80s. Maybe you think it’s on the precipice of taking off again. Maybe you think it’s mediocre and unremarkable but either way, you’re thinking about it. Or at least we’re thinking about it.
We made blackout poetry with your college essays
Posted inCulture Featured Poetry

We made blackout poetry with your college essays

Since high schoolers nation wide are making their customary announcement Instagram posts, we thought it'd be a good time to revisit application essays from GW students. We wanted to turn our pain into art, to honor the parts of ourselves we cut out just to get in. WARNING: Shit gets deep.