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On the NYT and Me (Alternate Title: For Papa Kellz)
Every time I log onto Facebook, it prompts me to make it my homepage. “Want to see what your friends are up to as soon as you go online?” No, actually, I don’t, and my Facebook friends list has already gotten awkward enough that I have hidden several people from my newsfeed because a glimpse ...
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On Succeeding
It’s either my third or fourth week of work, which means I know how to get here now and fall asleep on the subway for the perfect amount of time so that I wake up before my stop. The trick is: sit next to an old guy who is coughing really loudly or two girls ...
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Tips and Tricks for Covering a Red Carpet* Event
New York does this weekly feature called Party Lines, where you go to these swank parties and you ask people questions and they give you a one-line answer: PARTY LINE GET IT? It’s pretty cool, I think, or it was, until I had to do it. I have just returned from my first red carpet ...
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On Fame
Last summer, while I was working at Conn, my friends and I got engrossed in a reality TV show called Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. The four of us would watch it crowded onto Hannah’s bed, eating cold cheeseburgers and drinking gin and tonics. (I think that only happened once, but that’s what ...
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On Swag
THERE IS NO COINCIDENCE THAT NYMAG RHYMES WITH SWAG. Day three of my internship. From my apartment, I walk three blocks up, then three blocks right, and one block left to the C train, which is really finicky and hasn’t gotten the memo that it is no longer 1987 and air conditioning is, indeed, ...
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greetings!
testing testing uno dos– okay, i’m assuming you can read this now. I am Jazmine, newest Editor-in-Chief of the Voice and current couch potato. My internship doesn’t start until June 8th, so I have been sitting around a lot, reading, blogging, going to the bathroom as many times as I’m able. I’m working Conn’s reunion ...