Recently, my boyfriend and I called an Uber that arrived at Prassel Hall's Shook side almost immediately. The driver, a talkative middle-aged man, struck up a conversation with us at once. It turns out...
Last week I penned a column condemning the decision by Tigers for Liberty to bring Dinesh D'Souza to campus on the grounds that D'Souza is both morally bankrupt and intellectually dishonest. Since then,...
I've heard many Trinity students complain about the rule demanding that students live on campus for three years, but I haven't yet heard an argument valid enough to convince me that living on campus isn't...
A friend of mine recently did a "colon cleanse." She took some homeopathic pills she'd purchased for some amount of money "” money that I would have considered wasted on pseudoscientific nonsense...
I love sports. I always watch sports. I'll watch almost anything with a ball in it, and many other things besides. But sometimes I have to draw the line. Some things in sports are so mind-numbingly pointless...
The best card I received was for Christmas a few months ago. I have a box of cards beneath my bed partly because I'm sentimental and like to write them (and thus receive some in return) and partly because...
Media sources of all shapes and sizes "” including this one "” are encouraging their readers to be more "empathetic" and "open-minded." They're both nice sentiments, generally born out of an honest...
When choosing colleges, high school seniors often rule out schools that are too big, like Texas State University, which has 33,480 students enrolled. Class sizes at schools like that are often large too,...
Last semester, I wrote an article recommending "Trailer Park Boys," a show centered on the stupidity of the dope-dealing, heavy-drinking, uneducated inhabitants of a Canadian trailer park. Among the...
It's that time of the semester when we all feel like we've lost our motivation to do anything: the dreaded second-semester slump. Classes seem to drag on, papers seem endless and even things you once found...
Donald Trump has already won one metric as president: he is the fastest president of the United States to have an unfavorable rating. It's not a surprise, at least mathematically. Hillary Clinton did win...
Let me start by stating the obvious "” there's a lot going on in our country right now.
One of the toughest challenges in moments like these is the tension between wanting to be helpful and feeling...
