The Curious Case of the Missing Restaurant Manners
Picture this: the restaurant plays soft music in the background, the sound of silverware clinking against plates is intermingled with chattering voices, and the lights...
Trust Me; I’m an Actor
The traditional format of advertising (i.e. impossibly good-looking actors pretending to be happy because and only because they use Brand A toothpaste or eat Brand...
Big Girl Bucks
This week, our writers had a baking and wine-drinking shindig. It’s the night before a bake sale, and we have shit to get done. We are divide-and-conquering...
Pulling It Off
Last week, I woke up late for class. Actually, scratch that, I woke up on time for class, got ready, decided I had time to...
PSA: Being Single is Not Horrible
As senior year looms in front of us, and the beautiful memories of study abroad fade behind us, a lot of my friends are newly...
Music and the Mind
It’s Friday night and you and your beau decide to watch a movie. You both agree on something easy to watch, one of those commercially...
Tequila Debunked
Last weekend, I decided to host a spring break-themed party for everyone who didn’t get to go to Cabo with James Franco dressed exclusively in...
Demystifying the Google Doodle
For Robert Bunsen’s 200th birthday. Few things have greater power to make me doubt my knowledge of popular culture than the google doodle. Countless times,...
Mondays, Memories, Mistakes: Memoir Titles and Their Inexplicable Catchiness
Traditional notions of success are often defined in the context of commencement speeches and father-daughter heart-to-hearts. I’d like to challenge those notions. Because no, despite...
Photoshop for Facebook: What, How, and Why
I recently did a class project on the popular iPhone mobile app, Facetune. For those unfamiliar, Facetune is an app that brings Photoshop practices to...