There’s no time like the present Greetings fellow Gusties! I hope the new semester is finding you as healthy and happy as ever. With what seems like a blink of an eye, winter break, J-Term, and touring week have come and gone as though they never existed. With a new year fully upon us, I have found myself wondering where all of that time went, … Continue reading The write to think

Why is “faith” a virtue? The definition of the word “faith”—of the religious variety—changes every time I ask, but it seems like most people currently take it to mean something along the lines of belief in a transcendent being/realm that’s not necessarily verifiable logically or scientifically. By this definition, I could easily make a deity out of Bertrand Russell’s celestial teapot and worship it as … Continue reading For the sake of argument

Eric Whitacre beats dead horse Nowadays the internet is making it easier than ever for musicians, composers, and 14-year-old rich girls to get their music out into the world and into the ears of any human with access to a computer. However, the same artists who gain their fame and success on the World Wide Web can easily use its tools to exploit their fans … Continue reading Reading this will make you cooler

Bruises increase in academia The opening of The Fighting Center brings about the age-old debate of whether or not “the pen is mightier than the sword.” And in the case of Gustavus’ newest tutoring organization, the sword trumps the pen every time. The Writing Center has a new neighbor in Confer Hall as their up-and-coming competition and all out adversary, The Fighting Center, opens its … Continue reading The Bunion

Are we moving too far with technology? What is technology? According to Random House Webster’s College Dictionary, technology “is the application of knowledge for practical ends” or the “branch of knowledge that deals with applied science, engineering, and the industrial arts.” Now with that said, one has to wonder how far our society has progressed in the age of technology. I’ve concluded that technology has … Continue reading The hidden truth

Too big to work (part one) As many of us progress towards the end of our academic careers, we are able to look back at our lives in school with a perspective earned from experience. We might look back with gratitude at aspects of our schooling which we once took for granted. On the other hand, we might look back at our past curricula and … Continue reading Food for thought

As second semester begins and graduation looms on the horizon for many of us, the race to find a job or get into grad school continues. For the past three years we’ve placated friends and family with ambiguous answers to the question every college student hears at least a hundred times over the course of their undergraduate career: “What are you going to do after … Continue reading The job search quandry

A few weeks ago, I was out having lunch with some friends of mine when out of the blue, one of them asked me what I thought of the sandwich joke, you know, the one that tells the woman to go back to the kitchen, presuming that women are incapable of doing anything else. Of course I told her it was an overplayed, unfunny joke that … Continue reading That joke isn’t funny anymore

There are a lot of things I could be doing right now. Even though there aren’t any major papers or exams staring me down yet, I do have some reading I should do; as the PR Chair for multiple organizations, I could probably be making a poster or updating a Facebook page; and I should probably write an article for the opinion section. Instead, I’ve … Continue reading The times they are a-wastin’