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There once was a boy oh so wealthy
Eryn Rhodes

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Just over two weeks ago, I sat down (albeit over Zoom) for a conversation with University of Virginia’s Vice President for Finance, and Chief Finan
Miriella Jiffar

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In the United States, including all 50 states and Washington D.C, only 7% of professors are Black, despite Black people making up about 13% of the
Bailey Middleton

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You are not carried downstream by a river But the ocean rocks you back and forth
Kiki McLaughlin

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Most love stories begin with a hello, ours began with a ransacked lunchbox, a stolen spork, and a touch of pyromania.
Jasmine Wang

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Whenever something ends, there’s an instinctual drive to seize any last opportunities and make whatever last minute proclamations you can before it
Andi Sink

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Whenever something ends, there’s an instinctual drive to seize any last opportunities and make whatever last minute proclamations you can before it

Andi Sink

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Most love stories begin with a hello, ours began with a ransacked lunchbox, a stolen spork, and a touch of pyromania.

Jasmine Wang

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You are not carried downstream by a river
But the ocean rocks you back and forth

Kiki McLaughlin

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In the United States, including all 50 states and Washington D.C, only 7% of professors are Black, despite Black people making up about 13% of the

Bailey Middleton

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Just over two weeks ago, I sat down (albeit over Zoom) for a conversation with University of Virginia’s Vice President for Finance, and Chief Finan

Miriella Jiffar

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There once was a boy oh so wealthy

Eryn Rhodes

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I, like a lot of people, was taught from a young age never to talk about money.

Andi Sink

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Okay, I’ll be the first to admit that I am a material girl.

Jasmine Wang

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“Don’t do this job for your whole life,” my customer, an older gentleman with a shock of white hair says, smirking at me.

Hailey Robbins

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Journalism: the “4th pillar” of government.

Eryn Rhodes

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You know what. I’ll say it. I liked working in retail.

Cheyenne Butler

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Lately, I’ve been thinking about what my life will look like after graduation. What job will I have? Will I be rich? Will I be happy? 

Bailey Middleton

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The Sunday night before spring break, after an Instagram direct message from my friend in Tallahassee, I decided to upend my plans to return home t

Hailey Robbins

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My mother was born with a green ribbon wrapped around her left thumb

Jasmine Wang

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April has begun. The seams of March have ripped apart, and as I write this the temperatures have climbed all the way into the low 80s.

Andi Sink

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I stumble through life like a dehydration-addled ascetic in a desert during the apocalypse

Kiki McLaughlin

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In today’s Third Wave feminist movement, there’s a growing idea that any “choice” a woman makes, with the intention of doing so to empower herself

Eryn Rhodes

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I recently started watching the Netflix TV series Shadow and Bone over spring break, adapted from the seven novels that span Leigh Bardugo

Miriella Jiffar

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Not long ago, I was a high school student who had assigned readings. Some novels I loved, some I hated, and many I’d forgotten about.

Cheyenne Butler

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In the quiet nights of winter 
The air sighs with an icy chill 

Bailey Middleton

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When I took on the position of Editor here at Iris, I felt very hesitant to use phrases like “editorial vision” when referring to my goals

Andi Sink

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Monday grips a pen
Neurotic scribbles fill a blank page

Jasmine Wang

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After watching the Oscar-winning movie Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, I was intrigued by how the characters were able to jump throug

Bailey Middleton

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