mock play

Reimagining Shakespeare: The campus is but a stage

By: Zainab Salam, Opinions Editor Jess: a fourth-year student, burdened by ambition and Wi-Fi issues. Advisor: a keeper of bureaucratic riddles, and a destroyer of hopes and dreams. Professor: philosopher, lecturer, and a veteran of many, endless faculty meetings.  Barista: servant to the gods of caffeine and despair. Student 1: group project hero in theory, ghost in practice.  Student 2: master of excuses, chronic vanisher when deadlines draw near. Weather: omnipresent, dramatic, and really a main character in its own right.   ACT 378 Scene I   Fog blankets the concrete halls. Students wander, pale and sleepless. The wind whispers bad…

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