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Can I Build off Your Point?
Affirmative By Isaiah Bennet Oh god yes, Desmond, you sugar-tongued devil, you. Build on, my dear, though I fear the bloated corpse of my...
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U Up?
AFFIRMATIVE By Saif Maqbool 3:32AM “yeah” If you text long enough into the abyss, the abyss texts back also into you. I am indeed up –...

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Are You Still Pre-Med?
Affirmative By Virginia Ambeliotis Yes, I’m still Premed. I’m sick of people who look at me in a pitying way and offer me some crap about...

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Was Columbia Your First Choice?
Affirmative by Nia Brown First choice? Columbia was the only choice! The Dean, and also several brochures, said so. “The Greatest...

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Are you gonna eat that?
Affirmative By Tatini Mal-Sarkar Yeah, why wouldn’t I eat it? The grease dripping from this pizza is better than the condescension you’re...

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Are We a Thing?
Affirmative By Alex Swanson It’s beginning to look that way. We bought froyo together over the weekend. We shared a spoon. And some...

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Are we a thing?
Affirmative By Alex Swanson It’s beginning to look that way. We bought froyo together over the weekend. We shared a spoon. And some...

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Are You Doing Anything Tonight?
AFFIRMATIVE By Alex Swanson Why yes, I will certainly, unequivocally doing something tonight–I mean, this is college. The greatest...

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Are you doing anything tonight?
Affirmative By Alex Swanson Why yes, I will certainly, unequivocally be doing something tonight—I mean, this is college. The greatest...

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Is this it?
Affirmative By Luca Marzorati This is it. Once I sit back down in my folding chair, diploma in hand, I won’t have anything to celebrate....

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Should You Read the Comments?
Affirmative By Tatini Mal-Sarkar It’s 3am, and you’ve just written your last (you hope!) draft of Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings/Flo from...

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Am I Clean?
Affirmative By Alexander Pines I am a diamond. Flawless. My aura is porcelain perfect. If I were a toilet you could eat your dinner...

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Do you abbrev?
2 Abbrev or Not to Abbreviate??

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Are You From New York?
New Jersey By Dan Singer Yeah, you got it. Born and raised. Actually just thirty minutes from Columbia. No, not by subway—there’s no...

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Are you looking for something?
Affirmative By Alexandra Svokos Oh thank heavens you’re here, I’ve been praying and praying for someone to show up and help me. You’ll...

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Is that art?
Affirmative By Hallie Nell Swanson Of course Lerner is art: I took Art Hum. And some more art history after that. It’s art because it’s...

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