• How Do I Know If He’s Blowing Me Off? [Ask a Dude]

    How Do I Know If He’s Blowing Me Off? [Ask a Dude]

    So I met this guy around Christmas time, and we really hit it off. We hung out a lot until we both had to go home for Christmas break. The momentum kind of died, and when we both got back into town, he started emailing me a lot. I asked him why he hadn’t tried to see me, and he gave the typical busy with school and work excuse. I wrote it off as him blowing me off, but the guy hasn’t stopped emailing and facebooking me! Does he really just want to be my digital friend?

  • How To Survive Your Family Over Break

    How To Survive Your Family Over Break

    Oh, there’s no place like home for the holidays! After an overly caffeinated week of library sleepovers and final exams, the perfect way to retreat and rejuvenate is by heading back to your hometown. You know, because of all the overachieving siblings, screaming cousins, and the ongoing drama between too many members of your extended family to keep it all straight in your head.

  • The Morning After: I’ve Said (Far) Too Much

    The Morning After: I’ve Said (Far) Too Much

    By now you’re almost half way through Winter Break. You’ve got the major holidays behind you- Christmas eve, Christmas day, New Year’s- and that means pretty much all scenarios involving getting drunk with your family have expired. How’d you do? Make it through with minimal blows to your self-respect, pride, and squeaky-clean image?

  • A Guide to Having Sex in Your Childhood Bedroom

    A Guide to Having Sex in Your Childhood Bedroom

    Being home for a month can do wonderful things for your sex life, let’s just put that out there right now. So maybe you’re down in the dumps because that guy from school you were just starting to hit it off with (and might really, really like) is now hundreds of miles away. Well, you know what they say about abstinence and the heart growing fonder. Or wait, was that “absence”?

  • Home for the Holidays: Explaining Your Major to Friends and Family

    Home for the Holidays: Explaining Your Major to Friends and Family

    Students are gearing up to head home for Thanksgiving and winter breaks, and that means getting back into the swing of life with family–including explaining what you’re doing at school to your parents’ friends and your extended family. For some people (engineering majors and pre-med people), this is not so bad! For others, it can be a little stressful.

  • The CC Weekly Weigh In: Bring on the Holidays!

    The CC Weekly Weigh In: Bring on the Holidays!

    There is something about the time from Thanksgiving to New Year’s that makes me blissfully happy. Sure, it could be the sheer amount of sugar that is pumping through my bloodstream right now (I ate pumpkin pie and brownies and cookies and apple crisp for dessert last night), but everything about this time of year makes me wanna run and dance and sing… and shop.

  • Holiday Cheer or Bah Humbug? Pros and Cons of Winter

    Holiday Cheer or Bah Humbug? Pros and Cons of Winter

    I can’t believe Christmas has already passed. Is this year flying by or what? New Year…

  • New School Students Stage 60’s Style Protest

    New School Students Stage 60’s Style Protest

    Our parents are always talking about their political activism in the 60′s: the sit-ins,…

  • My Freshman Year: Day 174

    My Freshman Year: Day 174

    Days as a Freshman: 174
    Mood: Weirded out
    “I’ve been wanting to tell you everything for a while, G…