Every issue we ask folks at this school an uncomfortable question and publish the answers. We hope that sharing those less-talked-about things here, with each other, can be cathartic. Be warned, some content may be triggering. Email us potential questions!
One thing I loved that has been completely ruined for me is…
- Presidential elections. I used to like them and have fun with them, but now I’m a commie, so I’ve got common sense and I know that shit rarely works. – Ezra, sophomore
- Steven Universe. I used to watch it with my ex-girlfriend who was really shitty and abusive. – Alice, freshman
- Bananas. I’m weirdly allergic to them, but I love bananas. So I have this like, internal banana conflict. – Molly, sophomore
- Evergreen. I came here, I loved it, then it went downhill. They cut all the cool departments and the protests didn’t change things we wanted changed. – Kyle, junior
- Winter. Winters in Montana are a lot more stable. Washington’s just erratic. Rain, then snow, then it freezes over. This year’s been especially sucky. – Nick, senior
- Bacon. It’s bad. – Will, freshman
- Glee, the TV show. It was like a gay awakening when I was a teenager, and rewatching it last year… big mistake. – Mason, senior
- The swimming pool in the CRC. Because of the budget cuts, it got shut down and we don’t have access to it anymore. – Melanie, associate director of media services
- The band Creed. I liked to laugh about them with friends back in the day, but then that story broke about the Creed guy creeping on a middle school kid and they don’t seem that funny now. – Ben, senior
- The internet. I started using the internet in the mid-90s and I’ve noticed a lot of changing. It seems less open now than it used to be and it’s creating a lot of polarization in our society. – Chris, senior
- One Direction. They aren’t a thing anymore and I’m sad. – Paris, sophomore
- Shrek. It was my childhood and now it’s dead. There’s just too many memes. – Micah, freshman
- Snow. I used to like snow, but I don’t anymore after the power outage. – Madison, freshman
- Climbing trees. There’s no more branches and I weigh too much. It’s sad. Getting up to heights is how you meet birds. – Justin, junior
- The entire comm building basically. When Peter left, the whole department went into a frenzy because they couldn’t fix all the gear he’d built and they had someone who could kinda do the job, but they didn’t pay them nearly enough to really do the work. – Blake, senior
- Having dreadlocks, as a white person. I just got called out enough that I cut them off. – Fern, senior
- Theatre at Evergreen. We’re doing our best to keep it going, but the closing of the experimental theatre, the costume shop, and the scene shop has made things really difficult. – Ian, junior
