The Quindecim

The independent student newspaper at Goucher College

Fiction

The Proliferation of the Goucher Plague

In the year of our Lord, two thousand and nineteen, the small college community at Goucher experienced the wrath of the Gods on a scale to rival that of the destruction of Troy. The first victim, may Hades have mercy…

An Ode to Heubeck Dining Hall

In your 9:20 am class, someone says, “I really want a Heubeck burrito.” You roll your eyes—how could someone want Heubeck burritos that badly? Watery sour cream, variable ingredients dependent on the day, cracking flour tortillas. Also, it’s 9 in…

Sweet ice that grows in my heart, Let your sadness be thawed, Let your sweet Sappho song breathe to me Allow my words to flow freely As I slip into the sweet lavender scent May your strawberry coated lips echo…

Six Facts About Hoobastank That You Will Not Believe! #4 made me want to punch a baby!

Hoobastank is the world’s foremost rock band. Known for 2003’s song of the year “The Reason” and others, Hoobastank has become an international household name. Here are six facts (one for each fantastic album) you may not know about this…

Restroom Review – Wagner Fourth Floor

  Stimson. Plain and docile by day. Dark and menacing at night. She was top dog, with a dining hall and large complex of resident houses to boot; Stimson Hall was Goucher’s former glory, now being forcefully put to rest….

Ten Billion Dollars and Half a Pie on 5th Avenue

Based on a true story seen on the corner of Fifth Avenue New York.  On the corner I sat with a little pie no bigger than your monstrous hand on the corner of Fifth Avenue. It was small, I guess,…

Restroom Review – First Year Village

Hi! I’m Julia Haworth, a first-year Communications major. Last semester, Neassa Hunt began writing bathroom reviews, but she has since graduated, and so I’m taking up bathroom reviews this semester! Enjoy! Ah. The First-Year Village. From the rotting food and…

An Ode to Stimson

“Your shirt smells like Stimson,” someone tells you. There’s not a specific smell that you can pinpoint as smelling like an entire building, but you know exactly what they mean. Yet — you haven’t been in Stimson in, like, eight…

resistance

  i love our soft forms of resistance quick kisses in the hotel hallway laughing together while getting eaten by mosquitoes touching our toes together in a hot tub it’s a hot summer full of anger and fear i’m swimming…