Dyslexic Elphaba Thinks She’ll Try Defining Gravity

Published Friday, May 2nd, 2025
Filed under Off Campus

“I received this letter telling me it was ‘time to try defining gravity?’ Finally!” Elphaba explained, flipping through a physics textbook and a pocket dictionary simultaneously. “Too late for second-guessing–I’ve already bought a lab coat.”

“I’m through accepting limits,” she continued, chalking equations on a broomstick. “Because someone says they’re so. And by someone, I mean Newton. And he’s been dead for years, so frankly, I think it’s fair game.”

“Unlimited. My future is… unlimited,” Elphaba added, scrawling out variables as she prepared to launch a flying monkey along a parabolic arc. “Also my error margin. It is very unlimited.”

At press time, Glinda, recently diagnosed with ADHD, had accidentally floated into restricted airspace after forgetting she was in a bubble.