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I was somewhere on the edge of that “museum” when the spam musubi began to take hold. It hit like contraband adrenaline, that sugar-slick rice and salt-fat meat. The unearthly intimacy of plastic wrap torn too fast. And suddenly there was a terrible roar, neural-networked boundaries announcing themselves and vanishing at once in the very same neoned bang: how I am tortured for my hauteur, my gall, as a

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Disclaimer: This is satire. Mostly. Let’s talk about the familiar experience of falling for someone on a campus so small that it may, in fact, be a social experiment. The experimental design: one insulated campus the size of a city block, two gossip cycles and maybe three eligible romantic candidates. Each has disqualifying traits, yet no one’s left to take their place. You find yourself obsessing over someone, not because they’re especially attractive or even vaguely capable of emotional de

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A SATIRE advice column about alive, ahaha, and everything in between! Hello quail, I’ve recently been feeling quite lonely. I feel like none of the people at this school truly understand me. Theyre always telling me I’m too “wild” or am acting “feral”. I dont really know what to do, they all seem so tame and boring. Greetings wild child. Ah, well you see, theres your problem. You’re trying to interact with people. I have some good friends around campus I can let know to in

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hey quail, i’m having an identity crisis. whenever i try to be helpful, people just yell at me. last year literally my whole department got promoted except me 😭 i tried to make a fresh start with a new brand, but it never seems to work 😔 what should i do? i can’t keep this up much longer, i’m running out of acronyms —Radiant Search Hi my Festive friend Hunting for answers! I may have a good answer for you. In my infinite expanse of wisdom, I would recommend a very powerful exercise for

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Voting. It is every citizen’s right, or in this case every Caltech undergraduate’s right. Every year we as an undergraduate student body elect people to all manner of positions: ASCIT President, IHC Chair, CRC and BOC chairs, and of course, Tech Editor. Or at least some fraction of us do, ranging from a quarter to half of the student body actually voting in ASCIT elections. (You can see the exact numbers on all the past election forms on Donut, [donut.caltech.edu/1/surveys](https://donut.calte

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PASADENA, CA — In a based and green-pilled display of social responsibility, the California Institute of Technology reported its first year of carbon neutrality since 1898, according to a press release issued by the CalTech Sustainability Council on Monday. “It wasn’t an easy transition. We all had to acknowledge our privilege and make sacrifices,” said Simone Delgado, the transient who lives in the spare closet in Arms Laboratory. “But as much as I miss devouring the copious amounts of leftove

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