Art by Christine Nelson "Four letters; say them and I'll know who you are" is essentially the mental statement people seem to make whenever they ask for someone's MBTI. But here's some background first. MBTI, shorthand for the Myers Briggs Type Indicator, is essentially a complex personality test. The purpose of this test is "to make the theory of psychological types … [Read more...] about The MBTI is Nothing But Pseudoscience
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Try to Remember
Art by Christine Nelson Tutoring a Spanish 152 student this semester, I realize how much I've forgotten — and how much I surprisingly remember — since completing my Hispanic Studies degree last spring. I sometimes won't immediately remember simple things, like the third-person plural preterite endings for verbs, but other things that I never realized I knew will come back … [Read more...] about Try to Remember
Can You Really Be ‘Just Friends?’
Art by Kris Harper The age old question remains: Can men and women actually have platonic friendships? While, it can be argued that heterosexual men and women are born to be attracted to each other, there still is a case for platonic love between the sexes. Platonic love is defined "in its modern popular sense is an affectionate relationship into which the sexual element … [Read more...] about Can You Really Be ‘Just Friends?’
Beware The Zika Virus
Art by Christine Nelson Be it the Zika virus, Ebola or whatever may come in the future, it is important to take action and pay more attention to world epidemics not just when they start to affect one's own country, but rather as soon as the outbreak starts to become a concern. A lot of you who are reading this may have little or no clue as to what the Zika virus is. The … [Read more...] about Beware The Zika Virus
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
