nostalgia

Screen
A black-and-white image of an eye (in the style of "The Brutalist") surrounded by characters from popular culture.

Cinema at war with itself: The internal struggle of modern movies

Iman Monnoo
  •  
May 18
The Grind
A woman stares at a painting in a gallery of herself watching TV cozily

As Ribka Likes It: Stopping by my comfort films on a snowy evening

Ribka Desta
  •  
May 15
The Grind
Wuxi, China

Nostalgic Thoughts: Great great grands

Alaina Zhang
  •  
May 10
Reads
Photo of the red door that leads into Linden Tree Books.

One for the Books: The Los Altos street with something for every reader

Annabelle Chang
  •  
May 6
The Grind
The fountain sits in front of Memorial Auditorium on a bright day.

Asking the Class of 2026: How will we remember Stanford?

Elanna Mak
  •  
May 4
The Grind
Wuxi, China

Nostalgic Thoughts: Old-fashioned love

Alaina Zhang
  •  
April 29
Screen
A pair of hands holding up a video game controller

Stanford students revisit their favorite video games 

Emmett Chung, Chloe Shannon Wong, Sebastian Strawser, Melita D’Souza, Iman Monnoo and Noah Murase
  •  
April 26
Culture
A graphic of arms holding craft tools

Culture of Craft: Failure and the pedagogy of craft

Quinn Cook
  •  
April 14
The Grind
Wuxi, China

Nostalgic Thoughts: Adolescence 

Alaina Zhang
  •  
April 2
The Grind
Wuxi, China

Nostalgic Thoughts: Family stories from a not-so-distant generation

Alaina Zhang
  •  
Feb. 24
Screen
A mosaic of Steamboat Willie sketches

Mourning the Mouse: Is Disney animation dying?

Iman Monnoo
  •  
Feb. 23
The Grind
illustration of a shelf with books, a pair of glasses, headphones, a globe, and a framed photo

Asking Stanford: What year do you think about the most?

Alaina Zhang, Megan D'Souza, Kelly Wang, Daniel Xu, Angikar Ghosal, Kaleb Gjestson, Melita D’Souza and Lily Zou
  •  
Feb. 10
The Grind
Wuxi, China

Nostalgic Thoughts: In between first and second-generation nostalgia

Alaina Zhang
  •  
Feb. 9
The Grind
"I never thought I would graduate during winter quarter, and that my whole college life would end on a random day in March," writes Seyahi. (Photo: LARA SEYAHI/The Stanford Daily)

Late night thoughts at Green Library

Lara Seyahi
  •  
Feb. 2
The Grind
"What people miss about 2016 isn’t just the music or the memes; it’s that the digital world felt smaller, slower and more human-scaled," D'Souza writes. (Graphic: MELITA D'SOUZA/The Stanford Daily)

A letter to my 2016 self

Melita D’Souza
  •  
Jan. 21
The Grind
A graphic of the Oval.

Senior Scaries: Friends we ‘knew in college’

Erin Ye
  •  
Jan. 8
Music
Lil Wayne performs onstage at Shoreline Ampitheatre.

Lil Wayne turns Shoreline Amphitheater into a hip-hop time capsule

Joanne dePierre
  •  
Sept. 9
The Grind
Chloe Brown ‘25 arranges floral displays and pots plants as a student intern at The Farm. Soon to graduate, she, in a way, is placing time in a bottle. (Photo: WILL GIBBS/The Stanford Daily)

Time in a bottle

Will Gibbs
  •  
July 30
Culture
A film projector

The Nostalgia Trap: Why we keep falling for reboots

Vasu Agarwal
  •  
March 5, 2025
The Grind
Image of three silhouettes dancing. Dance minor graphic.

Those Who Were Dancing: Experimenting past comfort

Carly Green
  •  
Feb. 11, 2025
The Stanford Daily

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