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I would like to think that humans are inherently good, but sometimes it’s hard. My roommate recently had her debit card stolen and about $400 taken from the account attached to it. Now, if anyone out there can tell me how one goes about withdrawing money from an account without a pin number, please inform […]

This is an angry blog. It was written at the height of rage at 1:30 a.m. I call it, “An Open Letter to My Upstairs Neighbors.” Not that this fact will in any way bruise the mass of narcissism and belligerence which rests where your hearts once allegedly did, but I have decided that I […]

It’s that wonderful time of year again where families come together for the holidays. It is also that time of year where people like to throw away a healthy mindset and just use it for their New Year’s resolution. With a little help from Web MD and my own brilliant mind, I have compiled a […]

Roses are brown (it’s almost winter), Violets are black, I once had a mullet, But I just cut the party off the back. Not too long ago, a breeze ruffled the locks at the nape my neck. At that moment I realized a horrible truth, I no longer had a pixie…I had a mullet, an […]

This is my countdown to the countdown to the countdown … oh well, I’m excited for Christmas, if you get where I’m going with this. There’s nothing I love more than holiday movies, hot cocoa and Bing Crosby singing Christmas carols. While my favorite holiday is a tie between Halloween and Independence Day (I like […]

This semester I fell victim to the false belief that my workload would ease up a bit after midterms. Naturally, the opposite has been true, and the resulting stress has made itself evident not only in sleepless nights and sour moods, but also on my face.   Take, for example, this all-too-true anecdote from a […]

Roses are brown (it’s almost winter), Violets are black, I once had a mullet, But I just cut the party off the back. Not too long ago, a breeze ruffled the locks at the nape my neck. At that moment I realized a horrible truth, I no longer had a pixie…I had a mullet, an […]

This is my countdown to the countdown to the countdown … oh well, I’m excited for Christmas, if you get where I’m going with this. There’s nothing I love more than holiday movies, hot cocoa and Bing Crosby singing Christmas carols. While my favorite holiday is a tie between Halloween and Independence Day (I like […]

This semester I fell victim to the false belief that my workload would ease up a bit after midterms. Naturally, the opposite has been true, and the resulting stress has made itself evident not only in sleepless nights and sour moods, but also on my face.   Take, for example, this all-too-true anecdote from a […]

When I was a senior in high school, I had an internship at Gannett, the company that owns USA Today. During this internship, there was a day when my boss had me look through a stack of 100 resumes and decide which 10 people she should interview for the open position in the human resources […]