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Surviving Senior Year: Over the Over-Analyzing
So this semester I’m taking my senior capstone classes. The seminar focuses on literature itself and the reflective tutorial focuses on literary theory and literary criticism. They’re supposed to be the culmination of everything we’ve ever learned as English majors. They’re supposed to extremely challenging, hardcore courses that push our limits. And they are extremely challenging and they do push my limits.
A Vegetarian Thanksgiving? Yes, Please
I’m not a vegetarian, but I have a vegetarian boyfriend (and an aversion to all things Thanksgiving). I’m going to his parents’ house for the holidays this year and, luckily, they’re tolerant of nontraditional main dishes, so we’re going to experiment a little.

Body Blog: Pass Up The Cool Down
While most people’s gym routines differ – I, for one, have always been an elliptical girl and hate the stationary bike – it’s safe to assume that almost everyone incorporates a “cool down” into their cardio program. After running for 30 minutes at 7 miles per hour, you’ll knock your speed down to 3 and spend five minutes jogging or walking before you hop off the machine.
It’s All About Direction When It Comes to Campus Tours
The Times recently published an article about colleges remaking the college tour. You know, rattling off facts and figures while walking backward. However, the article focuses not so much on the content of the tours as the way the tour guides walk – backwards, as is traditional, or forward, the direction in which many colleges are now heading (no pun intended).
Scientific Studies That Make You Say “Duh”
Scientists these days must be bored out of their minds, because many of the health studies that have been cropping up lately are painfully uninteresting. The results are so obvious that they might as well skip the experiment and just use their common sense.
Gender Bias in the Workforce: How to Deal and Toughen Up
After reading an article in The New York Times regarding the inequality of gender roles in the wo…
Tell Your (Modern) Love Story and Get Published in The NY Times!
The infamous Modern Love column in The New York Times is looking to the college demographic to fi…

Beauty Pageants Are Full of Sh*t
Why on earth anyone watches beauty pageants other than to tune in and pray that the contestants f…
Put On Your Thinking Cap, It’s Time for Ice Cream!
Prepare to have your heart broken: “As she put him into his cage for the night last Thursda…
The Ugh Factor: A Facebook for Snobs
Have you ever heard of aSmallWorld? Um, probably not, unless you own your own island in Fiji and d…
Perez Hilton: Just Another Annoying Celebrity?
Perez.
He’s done a lot for us over the years. Taking down annoying starlets one vajayjay flash at…
This Blog Does NOT Contain Spoilers
I can’t help but wonder if there’s actually any point to writing a review for Harry Potter and the …
College Students Today are Money Hungry
Or at least that’s what one professor in particular thinks.
A recent essay in The New York …
Kohls + Vera Wang = Love
Vera Wang is joining the ranks of celeb designers who create clothing for the common folk. Someh…
Is Cocaine the New Weed?
Attending college in the Northeast after growing up in a small Midwestern town nestled in the co…
Facebook to become a Myspace Clone…Lame!
I remember when this odd new website, thefacebook.com, first surfaced at the beginning of my so…