“This week will be hard for you,” my teacher told us last Monday. Awesome. It was my first class on Monday and the week was already rough, but him saying so didn’t make it better. The dining hall was out of chocolate soymilk, so I was stuck with cranberry juice. Then my teacher took the [...]
I had to get a Tuberculosis test done for work, so I went to the health center at school. “Hi, I think I need a TB test,” I said. She looked at me strangely, probably thinking that I had it. “It’s for work,” I quickly assured her. I was taken to some room, pricked with [...]
When people find out that I have compost under my bed, surprised and confused are usually their reactions. “So you take dirt from outside and put it in a bucket?” one person asked. “No, it’s dirt that has been created by these red-worms I have. And every other week or so I put something like [...]
One day a week I have an 8:00 a.m. class. Wednesday mornings I wake up, eat a bagel and go sit in a class with 150 other people where we watch movies and discuss if we can learn history through them. For two and a half hours. It is only once a week, so I [...]
With a week of the fall TV season under its belt, I sat in bed on Saturday and watched a lot of it with a friend. “I should be doing homework,” I said, hour three into it. “Isn’t this your homework?” she asked, because I am a television-radio major. “No, but I mean, we do [...]
I was reading about black-feminists for a class, and it got me thinking about double standards. There are many double standards in society, around women and men and what not. But one of the biggest in college is one that I partake in everyday. I had a long Friday night, and Saturday I ended up [...]
The SGA question of the week this Wednesday was “When you were younger, what was your dream job?” It got me thinking. Jobs have been on my mind a lot lately, in fact earlier that night I had applied to work at Maxie’s Supper Club. “Hi, I saw an ad on Craig’s List that you [...]
