Episode 5 // You Know How that Nick Go

This TEL episode is all about yours truly, Nick Song 18.

Now I know what you're some of you are thinking: you may say I'm being "self-absorbed," or "ego-tistical," or even just call it "actually kinda sad." And yeah you're probably all right, but I think it's kind of a dope idea.

Over the summer, I reached out to some of my friends and asked them to send me a voice memo. I asked t...

Episode 4 // Join Wentworth and See the World: Selective Service and Exeter

This episode is a little bit different than the ones in the past. We're going to be tackling the issue of Selective Service, or registering for the draft.

All eligible male citizens of the US are required to register with Selective Service once they turn 18. I along with many of the other Seniors and P.G's in Wentworth Hall have recently turned t...

Episode 3 // Ranting in Urdu

On this episode of TEL, we break through the Exeter bubble and turn our gaze to the east.

Born in Houston, Nader Babar '18 has lived in Pakistan all his life. He returned to the states a little over a year ago when he started at Exeter in his Junior year. We talk about his experience as both a citizen of the US and Pakistan as well as the societal differences between the two. Nader and I disc...

Episode 2 // 'Gesso' with a G

On this episode we begin our look into Exeter students: the "future leaders of the world!" (whatever that means...)

Grace Huang '18 is an award winning artist and fashion designer with her work having been displayed in numerous galleries and shows across the US. I had the pleasure to talk with her in December of last year to talk about growing up in Houston, the different roles art plays on ...

Episode 1 // The Train-Hopping Poets

On this first episode of "This Exonian Life," we have brothers Kai and Anders Carlson-Wee. Their documentary film, Riding the Highline, chronicles a freight-hopping trip the two took in 2015 from Minnesota to the Cascade Mountains. They sat down to talk with us in February to talk about their love of in-line skating, how they first began writing poetry, tips and tricks they shared abou...