For me, turning 21 doesn’t seem like a milestone. I turned 20 last year. I’m already two decades old. I’m a twenty-something, officially. What changes about turning 21, you ask? The no-brainer answer: alcohol! Well, it’s not really a no-brainer. I mean, it might be if you’ve been waiting and counting down the days until...
I’ve been learning lately about the need to take things one at a time, regardless of the stress that comes with completing each item by a set date and despite everything seeming to pile up. I started off this month by taking on a challenge known as National Novel Writing Month, NaNoWriMo for short. The...
Within the last few weeks, a recording from a 1999 episode of Bill Maher’s ‘Politically Incorrect’ surfaced of Christine O’Donnell, the current Delaware Republican candidate for Senate. In the clip, she claimed to have dabbled in witchcraft. Since then, Ms. O’Donnell’s campaign proceeded to put out a rather pointless ad that featured Ms. O’Donnell speaking...
Do the names Tyler Clementi, Asher Brown, Seth Walsh, Justin Aaberg, Raymond Chase, Cody Barker and Billy Lucas sound familiar? They’re seven young men who have been in the news for one reason: they committed suicide after they were tormented because they were gay. It shouldn’t have come to this. Suicide shouldn’t be an escape....
I’m pretty sure you’ve heard about the BP oil spill, right? You know, the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion that killed 11 workers and sent more than 200 million gallons of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico. It was the biggest environmental news story of the summer. How about we bring this a bit...
Just last Friday, I had the pleasure of seeing an 11-year-old girl take down five thugs twice her size and more than twice her weight, armed with nothing more than a Darth Maul-like sword and a butterfly knife. I saw “Kick-Ass.” This movie, of course, is under attack from parenting groups, even from Australia, in...
Over the break, my mind was vegging, to say the least. And it surprisingly left me with little that I WANT to talk about. Have I lost my inspiration? Maybe. Why, you ask? Well, I was having a good time relaxing, paying little attention to college-related stuff and just having fun. First, I was up...
Have you ever been a part of a giant human dartboard? Or followed random people around, mimicking their actions? What about an epic battle fought to the “death” with only balloons? I’m proud to say that I now have. This past Friday, Charlie Todd, the founder of Improv Everywhere, came to campus. If you haven’t...
On Saturday, I did something that I haven’t done in a few months, maybe even a year. I watched an episode of “Family Guy.” Truth be told, I have shied away from the show since around 2005 because I feel that the humor has been sinking lower and lower. As a result, I watch between...
We’re going to start this semester off with a pop quiz. How unhealthy would you think the average college student is? How much of his or her liver do you think has clocked out because of a little too much drink? How many brain cells have called it quits because of a bit too much...
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