How To Be A Sick Freshman
Every freshman gets a cold the first month of college. At least that’s what I tell myself, so that I don’t feel like a loser...
Sign Me Up
You are reading this right now because I signed up for The Rib at the activities fair two years ago. Though I fully intended to...
Empty-Nester Syndrome
As the age old adage goes, it’s hard to be the one left behind when someone else goes off to new and better things. I...
ANOCH – The Lit-tastrophe
This year, my roommates and I attended the Third Annual A Night on College Hill, or ANOCH. In the past, we’ve had an amazingly good...
What Your Carry On Says About You
Welcome back from summer break, y’all! Hope you’re really feelin’ all the back-to-school vibes forced upon you by colorful Target commercials and CVS BOGO sales....
Baby’s First GCB
When I was a lowly freshman, I dated a senior boy. This meant that I was cool and mature, and that I usually had some...
The Way We Were: University of Maryland, 1976-1980
Special Guest Correspondence by Anne Rajagopalan College life is always evolving. The 1960’s had gentle acoustic, deeply meaningful music; flowing homemade peasant dresses; a Oneness...
What’s the Mom-nosis, Doc?
(co-written by Stephanie Purington) College is a wonderful time,when young people begin to spread their wings and enjoy the freedoms of adulthood. (Maybe this a...
The Quest For Free T-Shirts
I think one of the first pieces of advice people gave me about college, after “do what you enjoy,” and “get enough sleep,” was...
The Misadventures of Sexually-Frustrated Susie: The V-Dub Waffle
*Author’s note: it’s fiction, mom. Fiction! I’m not actually that sexually attracted to waffles.* Sophomore slump had been real. Susie was unsure of everything —...