Our Handprint Sofa - By Adison Moore, Silhouette Edition Spring '23 Image credit to zorki4, Unsplash

I was always told that it’s the largest transitions and the most sudden changes in your life that should scare you the most, that are justified above all other experiences for being able to reach past your outer defenses and grab hold of your heart and mind. In my own life, these transitions have come in the form of moving, whether that be packing my things to live hundreds of miles away from my entire extended family and the life I’ve always known, or simply moving between s

Why Do I Suddenly Relate to Monsters University, Of All Things? It just hits different, you know?

Fragile / Waiting a poem by Ana Portillo

Why is it that we’re so “busy” that we are unable to engage in pastimes besides scrolling? Has modern life impacted how we spend our time? And if so, what have we lost in the death of hobbies, and how can we fix it?

The Newman Library is one of Virginia Tech’s top locations for studying, grabbing a book, or just hanging out. Everyone knows the basic rules of “don’t be noisy on the quiet floors” and “clean up after yourself,” but the average newcomer might not know the rules of the library past that. Without further ado, I present you with my top 5 unspoken rules of the Newman Library.  “Public” Utilities   There are a number of rolling whiteboards on the library’s 4th floor, which at fir

Just about two weeks ago, going thirty miles an hour on Interstate Route 81 South, I jumped out of a car. Before you close your browser tab and cost us some precious website traffic, I implore you not to match my level of impulsivity. I know it sounds insane, especially as an opener to a collegiate blog. And that’s partly because it is—pigs are pink, and jumping out of moving vehicles is bonkers. While I claim mental sanity and ensure the action wasn’t an intentional way of h

Dear readers, what was your vision of college? Did you think you will make a lot of great friends, or meet your extraordinary life long partner? Or that maybe you wouldn’t care about either of those because you’d be so very locked in on your education? If that’s the case, props to you. I, however, figured I would be so amazing that I would attract all the cool people within a 5-mile radius simply with my aura alone.  Unfortunately, that was not my reality. I thought that maki

Straight men being obsessed with “crazy women,” is, quite frankly, an epidemic. What they consider “crazy” for women is not the same problematic behavior that would be considered crazy for men. It’s always just “I love b**ches on Zoloft,” a weird obsession with mental illness in women (we won’t even dive into the harmful implication of men calling women “b**ches,” but we all know it’s there). There’s a fixation on the idea of a woman needing them for her fulfillment; it’s a f

Silhouette Magazine: Virginia Tech’s go-to for all things creative expression. Send in your submission for critique, wait a little bit, and get published! It’s a beautiful, well-executed mission, but the magazine can only feature you if your forms of creative expression fall into the categories of poetry, prose, art, or photography. Fundamentally, that comes from the limitations of the printed medium, but the Blog has no such limitations: it’s the lawless wild west of Silhoue