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Jenna Peng '18

Jenna Peng '18

Staff Writer

Dear Alumni, Whom I Love

Dear Alumni, Whom I Love: ‘Thank you so much for your support’ — which has, today, granted me a polite one or overstepping two cider donuts. These donuts are essential. When I bite into one and get lost in its somehow both fluffy and dense center, I forget for an instant
Jenna Peng '18 Feb 27, 2017

The White Male Aesthetic of the English Discipline

I read no literature by a white male author for one year, and it was beautiful. It was relatively easy to do, given that the English courses I enrolled in were Global Women’s Literature, Postcolonial Archipelagos and Transnational Literatures of the Chinese Diaspora. Through these classes, I learned the
Jenna Peng '18 Jan 31, 2017

Hearing "The Lower Frequencies"

When I left Bryce Monroe’s production “The Lower Frequencies,” I was angry. I felt attacked, marginalized and stereotyped. I somehow felt simultaneously invisible and horribly, garishly visible. I felt muted by the inadequacy of language in speaking my reaction and trapped by the in trusion of others who did
Jenna Peng '18 Sep 28, 2015

A Student's Minor Major Inferiority Complex

A physicist and a writer walk into a bar. The writer sits and reads a flimsy paperback novel while the physicist pores over several large volumes of physics textbooks. The physics enthusiast then says to the novelist, “I knew a physicist who became a writer because of his lack of
Jenna Peng '18 Sep 21, 2015

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