Clara Thorsen

I read a lot of books. And I am hyper-aware of the amount of real estate English classes take up in my yearly reading capacity. So I think it is only fair to rank each English class I’ve taken at Bush, based on how satisfied I am with having read the books assigned. This is somewhat of a bad-faith analysis—people have different tastes, and I am picky. I’m hoping that people who read The Rambler ’s book section also do their readings. Shakespeare & Kurosawa - Macbeth , Hamlet , and King Lear ,...

Have the long five-day school weeks before spring break been getting to you? Are you trying to push through the dense crowd of people at UW just to see a glimpse of the cherry blossoms? The transition from winter break to the spring semester is always hard. To ease your mind, listen to our wonderful little playlist below! “Spring Came, Rain Fell” - Club 8 As lovely as spring is, the rainfall is no joke. Instead of dodging every raindrop, it's better to accept your fate and dance to this...

Last summer, at my press job, my coworkers and I reviewed countless applications for a teen writer’s position. While reading the writing samples, the most jarring ones were the driest, with immaculate grammar, generic phrasing, and safe, middling viewpoints. These interruptions from the genuine, imperfect applications were unpleasant, synthetic, and unacceptable.  Since the beginning of the AI boom in my freshman year, generative AI has felt inescapable. My humanities classes,...