Verve Blogs

My friends and I were sitting around a few days before school started in our big adult house with our big adult furniture, drinking our big ‘finally 21’ adult drinks when we began talking about our plans for the semester. We’re all seniors and we’re all ready to power through our last semester, or two, […]

As a writer reliant on sarcasm and snark to embellish tales of my college experience, I’ve run into quite an unfortunate problem. I have nothing to complain about. This time two years ago, I was a scared first-year student in a new town 500 miles from home. Because I’m an only child (and also a […]

In February, incoming students filled out the annual housing application and were faced with numerous boxes to check, and spaces to fill. Among the questions were: Who do you want to live with? Do you like to study in your room? Will you be having guests over? For first-year students, the living choices are minimal […]

  The start of a new school year brings ambition, expectation and overall temptation to succeed. As students who wish to accomplish their goal of receiving a degree, we tend to make goals for ourselves and overwhelm ourselves, causing stress and panic. You know the feeling you get when school begins, the one where you […]

  The start of a new school year brings ambition, expectation and overall temptation to succeed. As students who wish to accomplish their goal of receiving a degree, we tend to make goals for ourselves and overwhelm ourselves, causing stress and panic. You know the feeling you get when school begins, the one where you […]

As fall classes start up, now is the time to put your best foot forward and not wear sweatpants to class. Instead, throw on a nice pair of jeans and a cute top and impress your professors. One of the summer’s top trends was colored shorts, and this trend will carry over into these first […]

It’s that time of year where I would typically blog about end-of-semester stresses and the fact that I’m done being Verve editor. But I’m not going to. Instead, I’m going to write about something I think is more important; the death of Al Neuharth. The man was a legend in the media. He started USA […]

Long time, no write. Sorry I’ve been a hair slow at keeping this blog updated. Nine months ago I decided to embark upon a hair adventure to document the pixie grow-out process — through the good, the bad, and the downright ugly. Over the course of the 2012-13 school year, I blogged about my hair-related […]

Being a senior this year, I hear constantly the voice of jobs and money. It is as if nothing else matters except to find a job. Let’s take a step back and see the true face of this hankering. My only desire is for freedom. Naturally, I wish for others to be free and happy. […]

I was so close to writing a review of James Blake’s new album “Overgrown.” So close that I had a page of notes ready and everything. But then, I found out that Major Lazer had a new album out, “Free The Universe,” somehow titled more ambitiously than Fall Out Boy’s new “Save Rock and Roll.” […]