The Heights

The Highland View: Anemoia

Amelia Glover • September 28, 2025

Last week, I sat huddled in an unfamiliar kitchen with seven new friends, watching the finale of a show I had never watched before. Everything was entirely new, yet I somehow felt perfectly at home. I confess, I’d never had much interest in watching The Summer I Turned Pretty —I always thought it to be too cliche.

Finding My Oasis

Makayla Hickey • September 21, 2025

I choked back tears as the glass doors to Heathrow Airport slid open in front of me, an invisible barrier about to split my life down the center. Four months had flown by in the blink of an eye, and, somehow, my long-dreaded departure from London had finally arrived.

Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

Lucia Hernandez • April 8, 2025

When my parents reminisce over moments long, long ago, they always mention how they feel it had happened just the day before. I’d always assumed that was a hyperbole. But now, I think back to one of the final days of 10th grade, and it truly feels like yesterday.

My Life in Playlists

Jenny Hotchkiss • April 1, 2025

My playlists are time capsules. Each one, chronologically sorted, takes me back to a specific moment in my life. Every song brings a flood of emotions and memories—an almost indescribable feeling of nostalgia mixed with deja vu. When I miss a person, place, or time of my life, all I have to do is find that one corresponding playlist and press play.

Balancing Tradition and Change in Otis

Jenny Hotchkiss • February 11, 2025

My best childhood memories are a patchwork of my time spent in Otis Wood Lands, a small community exploding with my family’s history. Over forty years ago, my grandfather and his brother each bought small cabins in Otis, a tiny town in rural Massachusetts.

Sorry BC, Your Vinyl Collection Doesn’t Make You Cool

Tommy Roche • October 6, 2024

In the modern, superficial, forever-online world that always wants to sell you something, nostalgic tech is a rare breed: it is offline, it is permanent, and it is plain. Nostalgic devices are not simply reliable machines or shiny baubles in the consumer rat race.

Soap, Songs, and Rollercoasters: The Power of Associative Memory

Makayla Hickey • February 28, 2023

Every single day we create new memories. And in doing so, we subconsciously intertwine specific experiences with our surroundings.

Homecoming and Homesickness

Grace Christenson • January 27, 2022

Last August, exactly two years after my parents moved to Texas, my boyfriend, Jack, held my hand while I wept outside of my childhood home and wiped snot on my sleeve. I grew up in a small colonial...