Our 24 Most-Read Pieces of 2024

Thanks to all our contributors this year. On to 2025!

24. We Are Not a ‘School’—We Are a Hospital System with a Football Team
by Andrew Patrick Clark

23. I Am a Boomer’s iPhone and I Will Not Be Silenced
by Julia Bensfield Luce

22. Deciphering Your Daughter’s ‘MOM’ Texts
by Dani Bostick

21. Gen Z Beowulf
by John-Clark Levin

20. Here’s Why a Second Death Star Won’t Be That Bad
by Carlos Greaves

19. We Love the Character of this Neighborhood So We Bought a House, Tore It Down, and Built a Mansion Resembling a La Quinta Inn
by Aaron Applegate

18. I Don’t Hate Women Candidates. I Just Thought an Erratic and Vindictive Criminal Was Worthier of My Vote Than a Woman Candidate
by Devorah Blachor

17. A Math Exam, but Obviously Some Stuff Has Happened over the Summer in the Teacher’s Personal Life
by Tyler Gooch

16. ChatGPT Now Has PhD-Level Intelligence, and the Poor Personal Choices to Prove It
by Katie Burgess

15. Your 2024 Therapy Wrapped
by Sasha Lubomirsky, Topher Lin, and Chan Lin

14. Our Company Is Doing So Well That You’re All Fired
by Andrew Singleton

13. Updates on the Arc of the Moral Universe
by Amanda Lehr

12. Faculty Meeting Icebreakers
by Christy Lee Barnes

11. Ten Things to Say at Your Next Meeting Instead of ‘To Piggyback off Your Idea’
by Troy Doetch

10. Every Conversation Between Every Parent and Their Child After One Year of College
by Jennifer LaPorte

9. Good News, Husband: I’ve Become a Tradwife
by Wendi Aarons and Johanna Gohmann

8. Is It Perimenopause or the Fascist Death Knell of Late-Stage Capitalism?
by Casey Rand

7. A Faculty Member’s Self-Evaluation at the End of the Semester
by B. McNulty

6. An Open Letter to Wyna Liu, the New York Times’ Connections Editor
by Ioana Burtea

5. My Comments Are in the Google Doc Linked in the Dropbox I Sent in the Slack
by Gwynna Forgham-Thrift

4. What Your Favorite ’90s Band Says About the Kind of Bored Suburban Mom You Are Today
by Talia Argondezzi and Jared Bilski

3. The Millennial CAPTCHA
by Mike Lacher and Brian Moore

2. An Open Letter to Jeremy Allen White Regarding His Recent Calvin Klein Ad
by Emily Flake and Miriam Jayaratna

1. Class Is Canceled Until Further Notice While I Do My Job
by Laura McCullough