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 lineup, and I reveled in telling my classmates … [Read more...] about Being anti-cliche is cliche
Perspectives
Don’t Let The Internship Hunt Get You Down
Art by Chris Chen "So what are you doing this summer?" isn't an innocuous question. Despite it only being February, summer is looming. This is not the summer of old, where the days promised ice cream and fun. Now summer feels more like a deadline and less like a destination, because with summer comes the question of the summer internship that may or may not lead into a … [Read more...] about Don’t Let The Internship Hunt Get You Down
The Humanity of Our Heroes
Art by Kris Harper Everyone loves a good villain; it only takes turning on the TV to see how fascinated our society is with the bad guys. I’m constantly inundated with ads for new fictional depictions of Hannibal Lecter, The Joker, Lucifer, even Bonnie and Clyde. Why do we seem to love watching villains wreak havoc? Maybe it’s because without villains, we can’t have … [Read more...] about The Humanity of Our Heroes
The Bu Yorker 11-19
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Don’t Rewind
Art by Peau Porotesano We remember the good stuff. But to be fair, why wouldn't we? It's far easier to look back on a situation, relationship or event and remember the positive elements over the negative. Unless something quite traumatic has happened, its incredibly easy to gloss over the less favorable days. In my developmental psychology class last semester, we learned … [Read more...] about Don’t Rewind
