Eileen Miller

Eileen is a senior majoring in East Asian Studies and the Opinion Executive Editor. She hails from a small island near Seattle and is a big fan of evergreen trees. When she isn’t writing coherent, fact-based Voice articles, she is writing nonsensical, absurd fiction.

Voices

What I’ll miss the most about Georgetown is… Lau?

There was something undeniably sad about walking into Lau in the middle of July. While the perpetually AC-blasted floors provided much-needed relief from the heat, a silent Lau 2 filled... Read more

By September 12, 2025

Voices

Is writing in library books such a bad thing?

I love to read, but I can’t say I love the two hundred-odd pages of reading I am assigned each week for class. Last January, with a sense of foreboding,... Read more

By March 17, 2025

Leisure

Off Trail strays from the path of cliché coming-of-age dramas

Zhao lifts the teenage drama out of the typical high school classroom and places it into the wild.

By May 23, 2024

Leisure

To promote an ordinary life, Pippin promises an extraordinary show

On a campus where ambitious students obsess over finding the highest-paying job, Pippin encourages an alternative: a life that focuses on the little things.

By April 13, 2024

Leisure

The artistic side of Georgetown’s Asian American community flourishes with Autumn Leaves

It is 9 p.m. on a Wednesday in the middle of March and creative director Lucy Zhang (COL ’26) is untangling the significance of a project that demanded much of... Read more

By April 10, 2024

Leisure

Your Utopia deftly interrogates what it means to be human

Chung creates methodical, setting-driven, surreal slices of life that force the reader to reconsider the world they’re living in.

By March 20, 2024

Leisure

Folger Theatre’s Reading Room Festival reimagines and celebrates Shakespeare’s works

At Folger Theatre's Reading Room Festival, each playwright revealed how Shakespeare’s work remains ever-salient.

By March 9, 2024

Podcasts

Post Pitch: An Ode to Short Stories

Welcome back to Post Pitch!  This week, podcasts producer Romy Abu-Fadel interviews our Voices writer, Eileen Miller, about her piece in this week’s issue of The Voice. Tune in to... Read more

By and February 3, 2024

Voices

A not-so-short defense of the short story

But putting economics aside, there is a wonderful beauty to the short story. With no hard rules on length, short stories can span from a few sentences to tens of pages. Free from the space requirements of a novel, the core element of a short story is brevity. It must avoid convoluted plots and unnecessary descriptions, focusing only on the essentials to bring a story across. Every word must count.

By February 2, 2024

Leisure

Boys in the Boat brings a Depression-era underdog story to the sport of rowing

The team's underdog status brings a sweetness to the film that is just enough to make you forget that you don’t know most of the rowers’ names.

By December 27, 2023