Life

Let’s not dance around the subject. As a reader of The Slant, you probably spent Valentine’s Day swiping through Tinder with one hand and getting busy with the other. Don’t worry! You’re not alone! Well. You technically are. But there are definitely other Vanderbilt students who also spent all of...

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  • March 4, 2021

Feminism. Sure, it has its merits. Women can now do things like vote and earn up to $0.81 to a man’s dollar. But, honestly, the gender inequality gap starts to look more like a canyon when my gym teacher tells me I can do “girl” push ups. However, if you’re...

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  • March 2, 2021

By Julia Schmitt As my honor code signature eerily lingers on campus—along with the Listerine cap freshman me shamelessly took shots from—I feel compelled to honesty. I want to fucking drop kick my cat. He shall remain nameless because I am an ~intentional woman who lights up every room I...

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  • February 20, 2021

$5 margaritas, Big Bass Pro lottery wheels and enough fiat money to make our American dollar feel obsolete. In essence, Dave & Buster’s is a late-stage capitalist’s paradise. Maybe my strange obsession with game plazas started with my continual exposure to Chuck E. Cheese and its trademark E. coli. The...

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  • February 16, 2021