The Freshman Review is a journal created to preserve, promote, and give home to the burgeoning writings of college students. such a sad thing it is that so many college papers live only long enough for scrutiny by an audience of one before receding to eternal storage, or, worse, to landfills and digital oblivion, never to reach their intended audienceÑif, that is, the student is motivated enough to actually appeal to the optimal imagined audience rather than solely to the classroomÕs lone judge and jury. in truth, how many students write only to their professors, only for the grade? the mission of this journal is to give a real audience to real writers learning to really write.