Life

By: Amy Grill It’s December. It’s cold and gray and every Instagram story you see is the same Spotify Wrapped over and over. It hits you that perhaps you’re more basic than you’d like to think. This realization inspires your new year’s resolution: to be cooler than everyone you went...

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  • December 1, 2025

By: Dana Angrisano As a junior in college, sometimes I feel like an unwatered plant in a flaming desert.  By that I mean: there is a drought of men.  I’m too young to start sleeping with divorcees, but definitely too old to hook up with freshmen and sophomores (though there’s something disturbingly sexy about a sophomore who just developed a...

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  • November 17, 2025

By: Paige Harris After a semester full of late nights, early mornings, 47 rejection emails, and one particularly scarring group interview where I was told I had “the energy of someone who would overcook salmon,” I am thrilled, humbled, and blessed to announce that I’ll be joining Ascendancy Global Solutions...

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  • October 27, 2025

By: Audrey Lingan  There’s a coupling phenomenon that occurs on Vandy campus that continues to baffle academics: women taking shit from objectively mid-men. This occurrence defies existing theories of dating. Here, The Slant attempts to characterize the contributing factors that led to this chilling reality and explain the mechanism through...

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  • April 11, 2025

By Audrey Lingan In these last few months, my friends and I have been coping with the inevitability that we’re all about to be shoved out of our brick-colored fantasy world into the grey monotony of 401ks, meal-planning and coworker book clubs. Senior year pushes you to confront difficult realities,...

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  • April 1, 2025