College Jolt

Unconventional Winter Wear: Rock the Nifty Scarf

Sometimes I get bored of the plain old scarf, but at the same time winter is rearing its ugly head and I can’t help but wrap one around my neck day after day. Sure, they come in different colors and materials, but it’s all essentially the same rectangular piece of cloth that you wrap around [...]

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Going Abroad? Don’t Forget Insurance!

As part of my preparation for studying abroad in Tokyo next semester, I am constantly bombarded with e-mails from my study abroad program (not to mention I bombard the poor lady who e-mails all of us 24/7). But the one thing that even my own school stresses is packing some insurance with you when [...]

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2008: The Year of Band Break-ups

I like reading Brooklynvegan from time to time to see if any bands I like are touring and get my fill of snarky hipster flame-wars. Today, however, I stumbled upon an entry saying that The Long Blondes had broken up, and while I reflected on this past year it occurred to me that a [...]

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True or False: Multiple Kill Vehicle?

Now I’m not a very tech-oriented person per-se, so when my friend told me about how Lockheed and Martin “briefly mentioned” a Multiple Kill Vehicle, I had to pause and wonder.  Apparently this baby ’s mission “is to destroy medium through intercontinental-range ballistic missiles equipped with multiple warheads or countermeasures by using a single interceptor [...]

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Falsettos: The Good, The Bad, and the Absolute Worst

Like many students, I exhibit stalker-like tendencies, especially when it comes to Facebook.  Yet for some reason it took me weeks and a phone conversation to watch a video of a Korean boy singing Mariah Carey that my friend had linked to.  Being the kind soul that I am, I will stop you from making [...]

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The Safest Schools in the Country…and the Ones to Bring a Taser to

When I was searching for colleges to apply to, my rank of criteria went somewhat like this: 1. Location (I prescribe to the “snobby NYer” attitude that my city is better than yours, so I wanted to know that I could flee home with relative ease) 2. “Academics” (got to please the parents I guess) 3. My impression of the [...]

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The Worst Songs of 2008

2008.  There were the good times, the questionable times, and well, the downright bad times.  And I don’t mean this past Thanksgiving where I found myself doing homework at home for the first time since High School.  Here’s to a year that never fails to disappoint in providing examples where pimping it out will get [...]

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Yay End-of-the-Year Lists! Top 10 Songs of 2008

I can tell that the year is winding down when my workload increases exponentially and people are spending less and less time drinking (read: finals are approaching). So with this in mind I began to reflect on my year, and after I got past the dreams I’ve had sleeping in accounting class, my mind [...]

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Go to Wall Street, Be a Douchebag

I often wonder what life will be like after college, and if I’ll end up selling my soul to investment banking or other little-interest-but-high-paying jobs.  Of course with the current economy (thanks for shitting on my employment opportunities y’all) this will no longer be much of an issue, but it’s nice to see what could’ve [...]

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R.I.P. TRL. You Will Be Missed. Kinda.

I guess it’s a sign of TV deprivation when I didn’t even know TRL was ending until the week of.  Nevertheless, I’d like to take a moment to remember the show that I grew up with, and later allowed to fester in the back of my memories along with my TY Beenie Baby collection. What I [...]

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