Tate Kraetzer (they/he/she) is a second year Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences major and the Assistant Editor of PRISM for the 2025-2026 academic year. They’ve been published in The Classical Outlook and contributed as a PRISM volunteer last year. In their free time you can find them reading/writing/translating poetry, listening to new music, yapping about fish, or rewatching the same seven movies. He’s very passionate about science communication and her favorite book is “The Book of Eels: Our Enduring Fascination with the Most Mysterious Creature in the Natural World” by Patrik Svensson.
You Get What You Give
Tate Kraetzer
Picture this:
It’s any other Tuesday
And you’re dying in the street.
The song “You Get What You Give” by the New Radicals...
Now that Spring has sprung, we at PRISM figured it was time for another team blog post about the best books to curl up with on the library lawn before the term wraps up.
Slippery Fellow
Tate Kraetzer
That is how the eel question draws you in. The eels’ mystique becomes an echo of the questions all people carry within them: Who am I? Where...
“But the devils cannot interfere with the stars.”
— Heinrich Kramer, Malleus Maleficarum (1485)
I. THE NECESSARY WITCH
Whether such beings as witches
Obstinately...
If you’ve come to us for recommendations, this is not your post — if you’ve come to us for advice, sit down for a nice chat as we complain (loudly) about what media you should avoid at all costs. According to some of us, at least.
You may know about my insane (as some may call it, I think they mean “inventive” or “resourceful” but I digress) notes app table that contains the details of all of the books I read in a year, including my reviews of them — if not, now you do. Proceed.
Content Warning: Suicide, Suicidal Ideation, Self Harm
At the risk of sounding conceited, let’s harken back to two specific quotes from my previous blog posts.
First, in my review of...
Editor's Note: The writer has changed their opinion on one of the books reviewed in this blog. Click here to read Tate's updated position on "The Midnight Library".
If you have an iPhone...
Other than a few sparse showers of singles, Rainbow Kitten Surprise hadn’t released any new music, let alone a full length album, in nearly six years — so, by all accounts, “Love Hate Music Box”...
