2024 Missed Connections
This year, The Phoenix asked the public about one of their deepest, darkest secrets – their missed connections. We got 28 and you can read all of them below.
xander’s got cute style
Blue hair where’d you go???
a classic sarah lawrence story. there’s a girl i think is hot but she’s friends with all of my friends. in another world i’d go for it but in this one it disappears here.
me when everyone on campus is stunning
all of my exes live in texas
To the hot young boy-toy working the grill at the grill club events; let me kiss the cook ;)
Ted in Your Bed... Need I say more?
I am genuinely in awe of how beautiful the student body is at this school. Everyone is so gorgeous and cool and talented and smart and it blows my mind.
there is this guy in the punk lecture that is just stunning wtf :') i'm a sucker for a lil mustache hihi also anyone that's in that class you guys have the best sense of style and are the coolest people on the campus i don't make the rules
I have a HUGE crush on my roommate but she’s taken ugh!!!!!!! Her name is naomi and I’m in love and I can’t stand it!!!!!!! Help me!!!!!
missed connection with the people who always hold the door open for people – you are so amazing and you all have my heart <3
"I'd like you to put me together.
Gather my idiosyncrasies
in your hands. Unearth me
by the roots. I am warmed
by your smile. I'd like
to know you. "
I see you in the library with your sweet sweet mullet and sapphic literature on the table. I want to hold your hand.<3
"To The Protector of The Books! Late Night Guardian of the Supervisor's Desk! In 2020, freshman year, I went to the library for the first time on an eerie campus haunted by stagnant youth and the looming presence of a virus without a vaccine. I was embarrassed to ask for help finding a book. My library at home uses Dewey Decimal not Library of Congress. You told me not to apologize for asking for help. One of your coworkers came to assist, and you referred to me by they/them pronouns. It was my first time having someone use those pronouns for me in person and it felt great! I never forgot that moment and left our brief interaction feeling so prideful. After campus became less haunted, I would see you at strange parties in a house off campus with fake guns, animal costumes, and a lovely pet iguana. That was a strange time and it passed as a moment in my and your Sarah Lawrence social experience but now we are friends and I'm so happy to know you! See you at the desk and soon for some beers!"
We almost did some awful, horrible vandalism together, but I think I talked you out of it. I regret turning down the opportunity to hang out with you.
i see you beefing in barb. can we beef together <3
My first love’s confession. It was the 29th of December, a couple days after Christmas during a blizzard. I had spent the day lazing around the house in sweatpants. He was in Vermont as his family spent every Christmas up there. We had been talking for a couple weeks and had hung out once. Even though we barely knew one another our connection was inseparable and our chemistry fantastical. Unexpectedly, as I was lying on the couch, he called me. He said he was driving back early l, and demanded my favorite color. I blurted out “green!” And that was the end of the conversation. I couldn’t figure out why he asked me that, but I had this strange gut feeling. I rushed to the bathroom to wash my face and pull my hair up. Soon after, I heard the rumble of his engine pull down the driveway to the back door where my room was. I opened the door and there he was. He sped in the middle of a snowstorm all the way from Vermont in the matter of hours. In his hand were peanut butter chocolates, and a bouquet of green flowers. I was shocked, nobody had ever done anything so romantic for me in all my life. He asked me to be his, and I said yes. He showed me how to love myself, and he made memories with me I will cherish forever. We didn’t stay together, even though he was my soulmate. Nobody had ever gotten as close to me as he did. He was my best friend, my lover, my soulmate. Our connection and memories of love will stay in my heart until I die. He still talks to me today, and he wants me back. But the hardest part about falling in love with him was realizing that, despite the passionate love and green flowers; there were traits, habits, and self-destructive behaviors that he wasn’t willing to work on. Despite me working on myself to change for him, self sacrificing. He wouldn’t do the same for me. So take my story with a grain of salt. As for true love, it exists. I have no doubt in my mind that it does, because I got to experience it. I don’t know if I ever will again, and that is what’s truly devastating.
I don’t even go to this school at the moment (oops!) but I will say that during my brief career at slc there were some definite hotties that really elevated my overall experience. Even just seeing them around was enough to motivate me for the day. I’m talking about some bona fide smoke shows. To the hotties and the babes, thanks for brightening my days.
one time I was housesitting for this guy I was talking to and he was so cute i smelled all of his deodorants and I put my elf bar under his pillow so he would dream about me
Everyone who works on this newspaper is super hot and talented and I hope they all dream nice dreams of surgarplum fairies
you wear diy punk band t shirts and have a chain on your jeans, and you once complimented my bluestones on kimball bench as i went to cross the street. i love the smell of parliaments because you used to smoke them, and i think you’re really cute. i hope you’ll see this and know it’s me, and ask me to be your valentine <3
i’d collect every spotted lantern fly i find and save their bones for you to put in your pocket
my dearest friend, the todd anderson to my neil perry, half my soul, as the poets say. i love you so much and i hope they let you leave the library soon so i can kiss your sweet forehead
"I love watching you
watch the moon.
I love you."
my lovely screamo and emotional metalcore fan friend! I wish we were able to hang out more often! i very much value our friendship and all the times we run into eachother outside the library or in heimbold and end up talking about what band merch either of us are wearing or what shows are coming up and hope we can hit up together. I hope we hang out again and listen to .gif from god and play skate 3 sometime soon! I know we both have lots going on but I miss you lots my friend!
we met in february two years ago today and now you live down the hall from me and every sunday we start drinking at 10 am and eat beautiful meals. friendship is a sweet and lovely thing and thank you for sharing it with me.
I want to kiss you but i dont know how to ask. Honestly not even kiss… i just want to hold your hand and talk for five hours and smoke cigs. I know we're friends and that we like each other, but i don't really know how to act with you. Your new hair looks great :)
Fattest crush on my professor their name rhymes with maia pujara