It’s supposed to be the best four years of your life, or so they say. It’s that allegedly carefree period in life where the ratio of responsibility to freedom to do as you please is at an all-time high in favor of the latter. Sure, there are classes to be attended and homework and research papers to be completed, but there are no parents ( Read more... )

1. Living with someone not of my own choosing ( Read more... )

Repression is a man's best friend.

What do you want? One would easily imagine that such a simple question would illicit a mountain of possible answers from an individual in society today. In our capitalist environment where everyone seems out for only themselves and it’s dog eat dog competition, what we want seems to be what everyone wants - success, sex, love, money, family, etc ( Read more... )

One of my shift supervisors the other day at Starbucks described to me how he once allowed someone to get extremely close to him, only to watch his heart break the seams (he was probably being sarcastic but for this entry, we can pretend otherwise). After recounting other conversations with various people on the same topic, I came to realize that ( Read more... )

So I’m pretty confident that my first real, official relationship is now over. After some fourth months of dating, two extra months of non-committal but still somewhat emotionally complicated affair, it seems to be slowly and admittedly painfully, dying. It got me to thinking about my views on relationships now that all of the jubilation and ( Read more... )

While grudgingly preparing for my graduation party (which is tomorrow, p.s.), I began to think back to all of my teachers - both those who were officially paid educators of the state and those whose role was in a less official capacity. Teachers are the shapers of the future as they obviously have a great influence in the lives of future ( Read more... )

William Shakespeare wrote various plays, split into two distinct genres - comedy and tragedy. The comedic tales were as they would have you believe, they were humorous and often satiric reflections on human interactions and behavior. The tragedies often involved a central protagonist who often possessed in him a tragic flaw that would lead to his ( Read more... )

Upon entering kindergarten, we’re taught that our education is ultimately, a long series of questions and answers. Each day you are confronted with the unknown or some problem in need of a resolution and it is your job to seek out the answers to these questions. Questions are good, we’re told. Never stop asking questions. No question is stupid ( Read more... )

“You want somebody who can be your… everything,” he said in a not-so-approving tone of voice. “And that sounds cheesy but it’s true.” I listened as my best friend, Richard, more commonly known as Ricky, depicted to me what he saw as my mistakes in relationships. It was then I realized that he was right - I was looking for the white knight when ( Read more... )