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...
Interrupting People
Where I come from, interrupting someone is the highest form of flattery. All of my family holidays are loud, boisterous events where everyone is shouting...
Poems to Public Eaters: Pt. 1
To Two Apple Girl in the library: I nap no more. Your sounds disturb me so Deeply. Silence Then teeth puncture eager flesh, a moment...
On the Disgusting Necessity of Red Bull
The last time you drank a Red Bull in preparation for an all-nighter or a Friday night on the town, did you really think about your...
Tampon Talk
Apparently tampons have a long, rich history. According to tampon experts Tampax and Wikipedia, women fashioned early versions of the tampon out of wool, plants,...
An Evening in With Kim Jong Un
Last Friday, I made a choice. A conscious choice? No. But a choice nonetheless, and one that turned out to be the best I’d...
Shouldn’t Have Tabbed That
As a twenty-year-old in America, I fully appreciate the figure of speech: “so close you can taste it”. Three months from my 21st birthday, I...
Breaking the Gap Year Stigma
My friend tells me that we need to try this Thai restaurant she just discovered. She tells me it’s called “Sawadee.” Elated, I immediately tell...