Remember when I said that wide receiver performance is more variable than that of any other position? That was during Week 3 when there were 13 wide receivers with over 100 yards. This week, there are just six wide receivers with over 100 yards entering Monday night's Detroit Lions-Seattle Seahawks ...
"Pretty Little Liars" (2010 - present)! I don't know what made me think it would be a good idea to watch this TV show, because it really is just not good. Maybe it was the fact that I actually kind of enjoyed the books (2006 - 2014) when I read them, but that was in middle school. Anyway, ...
There will always be that one person that begins a conversation and lacks the social awareness of knowing when to end it. A friend of mine, Alexis, travelled this summer to Colombia. He endured a 10-hour flight in the company of a socially inept Colombian woman with a disproportionate fear of cold weather. ...
If you went into a bookstore and examined their historical fiction offerings, it'd be a safe bet that over half the books would be set in Great Britain. The country seems to hold an irresistable fascination for writers, whether it's the rowdy world of the Restoration, the alternately repressed ...
No NBA player can remain at the top forever. The time it takes for a player to go from elite to obsolete in the NBA ranges for each player, but two players in particular seemed to fall off the face of the earth. Derrick Rose and Deron Williams were both seen as arguably the best point guards of the ...
Few things in the world annoy me more than those Buzzfeed articles about being “a '90s kid.” Seeing some kid wax poetic about "Full House" (1987-1995) or "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" (1990-1996) despite being born years after those shows ended is just infuriating. And ...
This morning, I devoted a half-hour to crafting my physical appearance for the day. In the back of my mind throughout these 30 minutes was the thought that I was wasting my time with vain, superficial activities -- that I should’ve slept longer or gotten a head start on coursework or talked with ...
For Chinese students, a significant slice of the pie called education involves recitation. They start with simple poems and stories and move on to more advanced literature, eventually memorizing English works as well. That’s what my Chinese university friends told me this summer over a delicious family-style ...
This week in the NFL is exactly what you might expect: a week full of hilarious mistakes, missed throws and just down right misses. At this point, the season is in full swing and as blunder-filled as ever. Here’s what went poorly in week three:
A quick Google search of the terms “government shutdown” and “other countries” returns an excess of articles from the past five years with pretty much the same title: “Why don’t other countries have government shutdowns?” To me, the question is absolutely ludicrous. You mean the government ...
What’s a worse use of the word “random”? A girl, upon realizing she has the same name as the barista, saying, “OMG that is so random,” or a TSA agent motioning to a brown guy and saying, “You’ve been randomly selected”?The question matters in light of the recent Ahmed clock incident ...
This was unquestionably the summer of Fetty Wap. The previously unheralded rapper from Patterson, N.J. burst onto the scene with the ubiquitous single “Trap Queen” and then followed that catchy tune up with three other top 40 hits: “679,” “My Way” and “Again." In the process, he ...
As promised, here are some thoughts on my Argentine host mother:My host mom was a diva. That’s right, a DIVA.I never knew her real height because she always wore heels. One of the first conversations we had was about my leg hair, which had been growing for nine months at that point and was certainly ...
Dear Fall,Is it too early to write this? I know you aren’t in full swing yet, but technically, you arrived last Wednesday. And anyway, you’re not just here by definition, either. You’ve crept into the air, filtered the color of the sunlight, started to tie-dye the summer leaves.You’ve brought ...
Week three of the NFL season was the week of wide receivers. There were 13 receivers with over 100 yards this week. Thirteen! If it were a Friday, this would really have been freaky.Bad jokes aside, no position sees players oscillate in value as much as wide receiver does. With an incredibly deep ...
Ask me whether I find someone attractive, and I’ll try my best to revert to my first impression of said individual. I will do this because I know that once you’ve crossed the border of objective physical appraisal and thrown in the external variable of personality, apparent beauty changes completely.
Word of the Day: modicumA small portion : a limited quantityGrowing up, my family lived in a high rise called the Carlyle on the Lake in the suburbs of Cleveland. A relic of the bountiful industrial age, the former hotel was transformed into a residential building in accordance with the city’s assimilation ...
About a year ago, I thought that I didn't like mystery novels. I thought they were predictable, formulaic and populated with cookie-cutter style detectives who investigated gruesome crimes in bland prose while reflecting on their failed relationships with their ex-wives. Then I read the first novel ...
Last week, 15-year NBA veteran Jason Richardson announced his retirement from basketball. Richardson played with five different teams, most notably with the Golden State Warriors and the Phoenix Suns, over the course of his professional career. The 34-year-old NBA vet was drafted fifth overall in ...
The Republican Party is split. Ever since Barack Obama was elected president, the GOP has advocated for a policy against big government, particularly in the fight against Obamacare. Unfortunately, this fragmented them -- and thus the Tea Party was born. Tea Party leaders like Sarah Palin and Ted Cruz ...
