Winning Essays
We are pleased to present the winners of this week’s Night Owls essay contest! You can check out the winning essays by clicking the links below:
This Week’s Contest: You were a kid!
Contest Winner:
Thomas Hitchcock, “Vignettes from Francisco Ave”
Past Contest Winners:
Moving Life Online:
First Place:
Adora Svitak, “Closeness without consequences”
Runners-Up:
Raina Weinstein, “On Social Virtues in a World without Coincidence”
Theo Belci, “A Crisis of Space”
An Essay at the End of the World
First Place:
Megan Fritts, “Easter at the End of the World”
Second Place:
Phoebe Pan, “The Unlikely Event”
Third Place:
Anna Lerner, “The Rhythm of Chaos”
Akash Mehta, Untitled Poem
“the end of what world?” asked the will, knowing existence to be just a spillover of itself, a rivulet diverted from the great current by the watercourse of thought, little cleft in the bedrock, itself made of the water, the will.
What are Universities for?
First Place:
Adrian Liu, “A False Choice between Liberal and Vocational Education”
Runner-up:
Mira Joseph, “On Classrooms, Doorways and Rectangles”
All you need is love…?
First Place:
Valérie Boiten, “If it were not for your love”
Second Place:
Andrew Eckholm, “Saying I Love You”
Third Place:
Chloe Lim, “All you need is love”
Am I a number?
Contest Winner:
Anna Belle Newport, “Counting in fours”
Plagiarism
Contest Winner:
Elena Glen, “Plagiarizing Pride and Prejudice“