Rushing to Change

The quintessential college experience is not complete without Greek life. If you’re lucky enough for your campus to have fraternities and sororities, I envy you. This was originally on my list of college demands, but Georgian Court offered the best scholarships. I remember watching that Amanda Bynes movie Syndey White and wishing that I went […]

Toddlers and Tiaras and Tantrums

My mom told me the other day that when I was a baby, some woman came up to her and told her that she should put me in beauty pageants. She told me this while we were watching this absurd reality show called Toddlers and Tiaras. It’s on TLC and it follows families who have […]

Recession Hits Students Hard

I don’t understand finance. I’ve never been good at math, the stock market confuses me and I still cannot understand what i, x, and n have to do with algebra. My good friend Maria is a math and education major and in my opinion she is doubly blessed for even wanting to deal with kids […]

The Psychology of Fear

When I was about ten, I was obsessed with a series of YA novels called Fearless.
From the mind of Francine Pascal (creator of the equally-implausible high school fantasy Sweet Valley High), the series revolved around a 17-year-old girl named Gaia Moore who was born without the gene for fear. Because many teenage girls are sort […]

State of My Union

When I watch the State of the Union address, I rarely expect to hear anything that is relevant to me as a young American in this country. Whenever I watched Bush do the State of the Union address, or speak for that matter, I never felt like he was talking to me. But from the […]