We’ve all done it: One minute you stumble across the Facebook page of that cutie from your Brit Lit class and the next you’re halfway through his photos and judging the dress of his junior prom date. It’s a little too easy to get too knowledgeable about someone by analyzing what they post on their…
Technology allows for connection and distraction
Avoiding technology in this day and age is nearly impossible. With everything evolving around the use of technology, including school announcements, teacher assignments, grading and even exams, how can students not be bound to their phones and laptops? According to freshman Kyle Labak, “We’ve been born into it, it has become such an integral part…
Appreciating the old in a new way
In my childhood, I was incredibly fortunate to spend years living with both my grandparents and great-grandparents. All in one house. My family could have been a movie; a family resembling the one in “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” minus cabbage soup every night, a shared bed and the eccentric Willy Wonka. After living, volunteering…
Is the media making us #dumber?
It wasn’t the Charleston in the twenties. It wasn’t communism in the fifties or acid in the sixties. It wasn’t crack in the eighties or Internet pornography in the nineties, and it certainly isn’t gay marriage in the new millennium No, none of the most feared memes in American history have proven to tear the…