If optimism and cynicism had a baby, what would that look like?
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Fasting Leads To Happiness
Art by Christine Nelson Binge-watching series and television shows seems like the norm for college students as they bide their time between classes, relax around apartments and residence halls or even on the weekends as they try to forget that they have a test Monday morning at 8 a.m. In fact, binge-watching asserts the notion […]
Being anti-cliche is cliche
Art by Chris Chen Throughout high school, I defied cliches at every turn. I played varsity basketball, but I was also a soft-spoken academic who liked to write for the school paper. I took German because everybody else took Spanish. I grew up overseas. I picked a university that was far-flung from the typical southeast-Michigan […]
Don’t Spend on Lotto Tickets
Art by Christine Nelson I honestly never had an interest in any sort of lottery participation until I had a group of six or seven college students storm my couch the night that the numbers were to be announced. They’d all purchased between one and seven lotto tickets, holding onto the gleaming shred of hope […]
Forget the Labels, Buy the Memories
The things we buy don’t define us, but our memories do