Ever thought about how you take a break? How to maximize the relaxation and pleasure of having some time off? Or maybe just think that with all your free time, you could be more productive (well, someone around here must have a little extra time on their hands)? If you’re like me, you don’t have a lot of free time, no thanks to websites like … Continue reading Taking a break
After slightly threatening encouragements at the top of my web browser, I finally switched over my Yahoo page from the older version to the new format. The sad part is I’m pretty sure they made this replacement sometime last spring. But the time had come where I would be forced to automatically convert to New Yahoo. I literally waited as long as I could. And … Continue reading Change is like a naked ape
I remember vividly the day I became addicted to music. I was on the cusp of adolescence and fed up with the gag-inducing pop songs that perpetually played on Radio Disney. I figured the time had come for me to grow up and experience the strange and expansive world known as rock music. With an FM station guide in hand, I scoured the airwaves searching … Continue reading A tale of musical obsession
As college students, we only have four years to make the most out of our being a twenty-something-year-old with no real responsibility to name, and nothing to tie us down. Although I can think of plenty of times that this excuse has come in really handy in an attempt to explain some of my actions, there is a single event in my college career that … Continue reading Studying abroad: realigning worldviews.
Once again, after the November 3 elections, Americans have proved that the same baseless scare tactics have worked. It was on that day that the people of Maine voted to overturn a law, passed by the legislature and signed by the governor, which granted full marriage-equality rights to all Maine citizens. In doing so, Maine became the 31st state in the Union to reject same-sex … Continue reading The case for love
With the latest figures from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) pointing toward a largely limited public option, some national commentators are wondering what the big fuss about the public option was about. The truth is that having the public option as part of the health care reform serves two purposes. One purpose is practical, based on the idea of providing competition against private insurers. The … Continue reading Much ado about public option? Not quite.
Has the memory of move-in day already faded in your mind, or does it seem like it was maybe last week? It’s November, and that means snow, ice and the arctic breeze are on their way. I know you probably don’t even want to hear about it right now, but it’s November, and let’s face it, we all get a little down on November every … Continue reading It’s November
We have all seen Gustavus’ new tagline, “Make your life count,” displayed throughout campus and plastered on the new website. I don’t know about the rest of you, but this freaked me out just a little bit. It might be the realization that, as a senior, the real world is about to hit me in the face in just a few short months, but now … Continue reading Making it count
About a month ago, I awoke in a dreary daze to the screeching of my alarm clock, my body unwilling to leave the womb-like covers of my bed. My head throbbed and ached due to an over-consumption of Vault and frost-your-owns the night before. The room reeked of Cheez-its and stale pizza. As I struggled to gain consciousness, I was immediately confronted by the existential … Continue reading Thank God my life counts at Gustavus!
In the September issue of Glamour, a nude photograph of plus-size model Lizzi Miller caused quite a stir—a very positive one, that is. Often referred to as “the woman on page 194” Glamour apparently received massive amounts of positive feedback about seeing the “naked and adorably pot-bellied” Miller, as Kate Harding refers to her in an online forum. There was so much positive feedback that … Continue reading Get over glamor
