Four years is a long time. A lot can happen in four years, especially if those four years are in college because college is a very tumultuous chapter in a person’s life. Often students go away to college and have to experience being on their own for the first time. Without Mom and Dad around [...]

Welcome back my lovely readers! As Halee explained yesterday in her blog post, we are going to be having a competition between the awesome Jedi Master Yoda and the inferior wizard beings known as Gandalf and Dumbledore. Even though you and I know that Yoda is far better than both of these magical beings, Halee [...]

Ever since we saw Han Solo barter with Obi-Wan Kenobi in Mos Eisley Cantina we have wondered. Ever since we saw that bullwhip snatch the gun from the guide’s hand in South America we have pondered. Which of these two individuals is more awesome? Well fear not friends for I have taken it upon myself [...]

Hello fellow recyclers! It’s your favorite library based sustainable superhero Recycle Guy hijacking Cody’s blog for yet another time. Let me start by wishing you all a happy Earth Day. As you might know, Earth Day is my favorite holiday ever. I like it better than Christmas and Marathon Monday combined! However, Earth Day doesn’t [...]

The internet is a vast universe full of information and data that consistently pushes our culture forward creating a society of intelligent, well-educated humans. However, the internet is also a breeding ground for semi-talented 13 year olds singing about days of the week and adorable cats whose grammar is deplorable. The latter situation describes a [...]

When I went to Los Angeles, I stayed with my friend who lives there. Unfortunately, after I had purchased my plane ticket, he found out that his brother won tickets to go to SXSW on Friday 3/18. This meant that he had to be on a 9:00am flight that day which was a whole 14.5 [...]

Well it’s 90s week here at the Uncommon Discussion and so since I have already discussed the finer points of Rugrats (see Rugrats: A Critical Analysis) I figured I would switch gears a little bit and become an old man by talking about how kids today don’t have it as good as we did back [...]

In case you haven’t heard, TeenNick is creating a new segment on their channel called “The 90s Are All That.” It will be airing from midnight to 2am and will feature such favorites as Rugrats, Kenan & Kel, Pete & Pete, The Amanda Show, All That and Clarissa Explains It All.[i] Finally, there will be [...]

Let me preface this blog entry by saying that while I am not new to traveling, I am new to traveling west. In fact, the farthest West I had been prior to this Spring Break was the Gulf of Mexico on the Florida Coast (I originally thought it was Buffalo, NY but upon looking at [...]

As the recycle guy at Mugar Library, people constantly ask me for directions. I assume it is because when people see me pushing around my blue cart filled with paper they think “Well this fellow has to know where things are if he has this giant bin full of paper. Why don’t I ask him?” [...]