Stuck in a Rut
I don’t know about you guys, but for me, it’s midsemester – that means tons of tests, tons of papers, and bitter cold. You’d think, with so much to do and nowhere to go, I’d be super productive… But not…
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J Alfred Prufrock || Pause for Poetry Linkup
If you read last month’s poetry post it might not seem like it, but I actually hated poetry for a really long time. What was the point of it? I thought it was obtuse and useless, and preferred my reading from novels…
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6 Freshman Tips for the Self-Conscious
Like so many other people, I’m a worrier. What if someone thinks I look weird? What if someone thinks I walk weird? What if someone thinks I am weird? Every time I’m out in public, I’m a little nervous about all…
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Teenagers are the Devil
Teenagers are actually the devil. Or so I hear. If there’s one trend I’m super tired of, it’s the psuedo-scientific op-ed about how this generation of young people is so frivolous and self-centered. Where some forty-year-old with serious nostalgia a…
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My Dream School Rejected Me – Now What?
Confession time: As much as I love the University of Illinois, my first choice school was actually Yale. Yes, that Yale. I really thought I’d make it in (despite an acceptance rate that hovers around 7%), and I feel like…
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