Lessons in Repair from the Comechingones Mountains. By Sepp Zammuto Illustration by Nini Vilac Every time the hostel’s wheelbarrow gets used, it looks worse. It must be a century old. The bed’s surface is a crusty desert interspersed with tiny oases of blue paint that once, in its glory days, covered everything in a shiny ocean. The rear frame is so warped that the left handle rests an arm’s length below the right. The flat tire, along with the corrosion of the axle bracket,

The True Story of a Prospective Intern. By Sepp Zammuto Illustration by Jiaying Geng Stuck on the 6th floor of Butler Library last October, working tirelessly on my internship applications, I saw a ghost. An ad sent from heaven appeared between my reels: an Enron billboard that read, “We’re back, can we talk?” Enron, formerly the world’s largest energy trader, was back in business? I couldn’t believe my eyes. Checking their profiles, I was astonished to find that they had rei

The Cubing Jedi . By Sepp Zammuto Illustration by Ellie Hodges “I just do this to mentally torture myself because it’s so hard.” Matty Hiroto Inaba, CC ’29, adjusts his glasses and stares contemplatively at his scrambled Rubik’s Cube. By mental torture, Matty means the exercise of planning the first two layers of the 3x3 entirely in his head—about 25 moves into the solution—before even turning it once. He continues, “so now I’m gonna start tracking the pieces and then rebuil