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Nov 23, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Srinidhi Gopalan |Sophia Viggiano
Hey, stranger. A few years ago, I read the book “Tiny Beautiful Things” by Cheryl Strayed. It actually served as a huge inspiration for my blog. If you haven’t read it, it’s a collection of advice columns that Strayed wrote for her blog — they’re heartwarming, funny, thought-provoking, but most of all incredibly wise. Strayed is a genius.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Marissa Kelley |Sophia Viggiano
Hey, stranger. I recently got coffee with a friend. Who cares, right? Stay with me. This coffee date, unbeknownst to me, would escalate from something seemingly banal and insignificant into an event that I wrote three poems, an essay and two short stories about — and here I am writing about it again. You’ve heard about this friend before — she’s the one who encouraged me to publish my poetry.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Sydney Krasniewski |Sophia Viggiano
Hey stranger,Lately, I’ve been thinking about how it’s difficult to be a humanities major in a way that is very different from being a STEM major, and that is the creative freedom and the complete and utter — and horrifying — vulnerability that comes with it. It took me a while to figure out my footing, to analyze myself and ascertain what my true niche was creatively.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Sara Meyer |Sophia Viggiano
Hey, stranger. This is going to be a bit of a downer, so if you’re feeling particularly happy and sunshiney while you’re starting to read this, I’d suggest that you click off and come back another time. I’ll see you then. Within the last month, four of my close friends’ childhood pets have passed on, including mine. It has been a very jarring phenomenon and one of the most depressing domino effects I’ve ever witnessed. My childhood cat passed away last week.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Jake Vasilias |Sophia Viggiano
Hey stranger,It’s been a while. Today I’m writing to you from the desert — I mean Pittsburgh — to let you in on a few life updates — first one being that my apartment is hot. Volcanically hot. I am constantly fanning myself with the nearest object. My new after class routine consists of pressing my stainless steel water bottle against my face in hopes of a reprieve. Sleeping with a sheet on feels like I’m being buried alive. Don’t even get me started on climbing Cardiac Hill in this weather.
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Mar 23, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Irene Castillo |Marissa Kelley |Sara Meyer |Sophia Viggiano
“Camp” took social media by storm when the organizers of the 2019 Met Gala chose Susan Sontag’s essay “Notes on Camp” as its theme. On March 4, it took on Pitt’s campus with a one-day-only student-crafted exhibit at the Cathedral of Learning. According to Sontag’s essay, camp is “a certain mode of aestheticism.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Sara Meyer |Sophia Viggiano |Grace Harris |Emma Hannan
As the weekend approaches, Pitt athletics is set for tons of action across both winter and spring sports. Here’s a glimpse into what’s in store. WrestlingStarting off strong with Pitt wrestling (10-8, 2-3 ACC), the team travels to Kansas City, Missouri, this weekend for the NCAA Championship. After finishing fourth in the ACC Tournament last weekend, this team is on track for post-season success. Seven athletes secured bids to the tournament.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Sara Meyer |Sophia Viggiano |Grace Harris |Emma Hannan
The last time the Atlantic Coast Conference sponsored a conference championship in women’s gymnastics was in 1984. Now, for the first time in 40 years, Pitt gymnastics (7-11, 1-5 ACC) will compete in its first-ever ACC championships in Greensboro, North Carolina, on March 23. Pitt will compete in a quad meet against ACC opponents Clemson, NC State and North Carolina. During the regular season, the gymnastics team featured multiple Pitt debuts, including head coach Casey Jo MacPherson’s.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Sara Meyer |Sophia Viggiano |Grace Harris |Emma Hannan
To love a movie is to ache for it, to feel like the breath has been knocked out from your lungs, the ground beneath your feet shaken. To love a movie is to see a new way of speaking an innate truth that delves into your soul. To love a movie is to know you’re forever changed by it. I saw “Past Lives” for the first time in July and I knew I would never be the same. The film is so lush, so beautiful and so full of yearning that it almost defies description.
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Mar 22, 2024 | 
pittnews.com | Sophia Viggiano |Grace Harris |Emma Hannan |Lily Peters
Hey stranger,While talking with a dear friend of mine, she disclosed to me that she’s been feeling “stuck.” Have you ever felt that? Directionless. Up against a wall. Going, going … nowhere. Wait — don’t answer that, because of course you have. My mother has recurring dreams about being lost in mazes. They last the whole night. Say what you will about the psychology of dreams, but that must mean something. At that moment, offering advice for my friend’s “stuck-ness” seemed futile.
