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Modern Love College Essay Contest | Modern Love College Essay Contest |
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This past February, just after Valentine’s Day, we asked college students nationwide to tell us the truth about what love is like for them today. We are pleased to present the best of that writing here, leading off with our winning entry by Kyleigh Leddy, a senior at Boston College. Many writers explored how technology and social media can both enable and frustrate emotional attachment, but none carried greater weight and poignancy than Ms. Leddy’s essay about her missing older sister. | |
Our other finalists tackled a wide range of subjects, from wrestling with hoarding and body image to rejecting oppressive masculine codes of behavior. This year’s contest also featured a variety of 100-word dispatches from college students around the world in our Tiny Love Stories column. | |
Congratulations to Ms. Leddy and our other top finishers (listed below), and our gratitude to all who participated. Thanks, as well, to contest readers Katherine Hu, Danya Issawi and Alexandra Petri. — Daniel Jones and Miya Lee | |
Winner | Winner |
Kyleigh Leddy, Boston College | Kyleigh Leddy, Boston College |
Finalists | Finalists |
Ricardo Jaramillo, Brown University | Ricardo Jaramillo, Brown University |
James Lee, Brown University | James Lee, Brown University |
Meaghan Mahoney, Columbia University | Meaghan Mahoney, Columbia University |
Karina Manta, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs | Karina Manta, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs |
Honorable Mention | Honorable Mention |
Amaris Ramey, Georgia Gwinnett College | Amaris Ramey, Georgia Gwinnett College |
Paige Resnick, University of Chicago | Paige Resnick, University of Chicago |
Samantha Resnick, Pomona College | Samantha Resnick, Pomona College |
Veronica Suchodolski, Barnard College | Veronica Suchodolski, Barnard College |
Sahana Thirumazhusai, Carnegie Mellon University | Sahana Thirumazhusai, Carnegie Mellon University |
Notable Essays | Notable Essays |
Avital Balwit, University of Virginia | Avital Balwit, University of Virginia |
Eliza Browning, Wheaton College | Eliza Browning, Wheaton College |
Kelsang Dolma, Yale University | Kelsang Dolma, Yale University |
Morgan Florsheim, Brown University | Morgan Florsheim, Brown University |
Sarah Haeckel, Colgate University | Sarah Haeckel, Colgate University |
Sarah Lieberman, Cornell University | Sarah Lieberman, Cornell University |
Cole Martin, University of Chicago | Cole Martin, University of Chicago |
Cadence Neenan, Tulane University | Cadence Neenan, Tulane University |
Abey Philip, Yale University | Abey Philip, Yale University |
Lily Robinson, Middlesex Community College | Lily Robinson, Middlesex Community College |
Kate Scherzinger, Notre Dame | Kate Scherzinger, Notre Dame |
Sara Stanworth, Utah Valley University | Sara Stanworth, Utah Valley University |
Kate Tinney, UC Berkeley | Kate Tinney, UC Berkeley |
Patrick Wigent, Carleton College | Patrick Wigent, Carleton College |
Qianqian Yang, Harvard College | Qianqian Yang, Harvard College |