In a world where my financial situation, or lack thereof, restricts my ability to consume regularly scheduled television programs, I, like many others, must resort to alternative methods to get news. News in this sense contains...
Type A or type B, introvert or extrovert, optimist or pessimist: we have a tendency to classify ourselves into two groups of people. One or the other. These classifications help us gain insights into who we are and who we ar...
As I cook, every now and then I stop to take notes to an audiobook playing, in the background entitled Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Harriet Jacob’s recounting of a seven-year-confinement in an attic and an unfulfilled dr...
For a moment after turning in an essay, I feel relieved. As I leave class, though, the anxiety begins again. I prepare myself to play the waiting game. That span in between the deadline and the grade always feels so long. As mu...
What is it about studying abroad that so many people find appealing? Is it the chance to travel and see other cultures? Is it being able to relate to the people of other cultures? Or is it just needing a break from the same ev...
The problem with there being an extra week off before the biggest game of the year for the most popular sport in America lies not in the fact that the team with the coaching staff who is able to game plan more effectively has an...
My Anthropology of Language class was presented this discussion prompt in the early days of the semester. We were asked what we use versus what's most grammatical. Being a linguistics lover and a huge fan of singular ‘they,’ I ...
Headline: Shoot your shotSubhead: Seize every opportunity that comes your wayBy: Jake [email protected] basketball speak, anyone labeled a shooter is accurate when putting the ball in the basket from distance. I...
I am a bisexual. All this means is I am attracted to two genders. This doesn’t mean I’m greedy or that my eye is wandering any more than a hetero or homosexual person. Bisexuals aren’t polygamous either; I mean they can be...
New Years Resolutions present a beautiful opportunity to reflect and reinvent oneself. As an idealist, I quite appreciate ambitions to create a new you in the new wear. Of course, these resolutions often fall short. Early January th...
After a relaxing three weeks away from the cares of school work and busy schedules, the time has come for it all to start up again. A new schedule, new classes, new professors perhaps, just new everything. I remember ho...
Each December brings the release of any given network’s 25 Days of Christmas special, during which a different Christmas movie is shown each day. There are movies you expect to see on the schedule such as "The Year Without a ...
