Procrastinate
I’m a little late with the blog this week. This last weekend was busy, but I admit that today is a totally free day for me, and I’m just getting this up. I think I’ve found the biggest danger to my...
View ArticleElection
Tomorrow is your last day to exercise your voice, productively, in American politics. If you haven’t been lured into voting early by the many opportunities to do so on campus, get ready for the rush...
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Last weekend, I drove out to the suburbs of Chicago to visit my grandparents. The visit was pleasant, and while I was sad to go, that feeling was soon lost in a sense of bitter humor as I forked over...
View ArticleCold
It’s too cold, tooooooo damn cold. It’s amazing how drastic my perception of the winter has changed within the last 10 years. 10 years ago this weather would have been a gift. Cold meant snow, and snow...
View ArticleDead Week
While our counterparts at Iowa State are graced with a dead week to “study,” we still find ourselves attending class. Thank goodness. While it may seem like a drag to not get a whole week off to study...
View Article5 Weeks
Breaks are always welcome, but the 5 week winter break we just had really started to draaaaaaag after New Year’s Day. Regardless, it’s great to be back in ye grand ol’ Iowa City. It’s been so cold,...
View ArticleI Take it Back About the Weather
It’s a Winter Wonderland. I’m walking in it, and my shoes are getting soaked. Late last year I wrote a post about the snowy weather ruining the school year. I complained about the way the roads would...
View ArticleFootball’s Done
I’m a little heartbroken. Football’s over, which means the sports I watch on purpose are done until the fall (I’ve fallen asleep to a baseball game several times). The festivities culminated last...
View ArticleCorny Comedy in Iowa
I took a visit to the local open mic event held every Monday night at Iowa City’s Yacht Club… and was pleasantly surprised. Doing comedy several times last semester (and only twice at the Yacht Club),...
View Article21 and Over? Please…
This post isn’t super related to college life or the University, but it is something I feel like discussing. On the commercial for “21 and Over,” there’s a quote claiming that the movie is “the missing...
View ArticleFinals-ly Getting Down to Business
Enjoy the uncomfortably lame play on words I put into the title of this post, because it’s going to be a serious one. As finals week approaches (which I just figured out to be a little over a week from...
View ArticleCool Stuff
The following post is a list of cool stuff I experienced this year. I learned how to read a map. Wait, what? By taking the recreational, single credit hour class “Basic Orienteering,” I was given the...
View ArticleSo…How’s Your Summer Going?
Are you accomplishing everything you had planned for this summer? Are you exercising regularly? Learning a programming language? Publishing regular blog posts (*cough*)? Summer’s definitely the time to...
View ArticleWho Cares that Paula Deen’s a Racist?
This morning, I turned on the news and was treated to my usual dose of negativity. It was all there: Syria’s an awful place to be, the government’s been looking at our email, a few people were...
View ArticleWendy Davis and Tips to Make Your Filibuster Extra Fun!
Democratic Senator Wendy Davis has been blowing up all over the news and internet lately for her 11+ hour filibuster used to stall voting on a controversial abortion bill in Texas. If you’re just...
View ArticleOn social movements and being radical
When was the last time you saw someone protesting something on campus and made fun of them in your head? Have you? More importantly, does that make you a bad person? For one reason or another, I was...
View ArticleRolling Stone: The Boston Bomber and Great Advertising
The Boston bomber’s senior picture – and it does look like a high school senior picture – covering the most recent issue of Rolling Stone Magazine has proven provocative, to say the least. Several...
View ArticleWhat Will be the Prince’s New Name?
Thanks to the excitement about the birth of a child yesterday, I briefly considered writing a serious post about how radical we are as a country. About how we’re a nation that values meaningless...
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