Sometimes the temperature in the library can feel like this: If you check out Mugar Library’s twitter page you’ll see that, within any given week, the library gets about a half dozen to a dozen tweets asking why the library is so hot or so cold. The library usually responds by alerting administration. But what [...]

After a great first year at college, I’m spending summer at home again. Here are the pros and cons of moving back in: • Chores – I completely forgot about chores at college. Sure, I had to do my own laundry, but things like that seem way worse once you have your mom nagging you to [...]

One night over the summer, I got together with a bunch of friends from my high school. This wasn’t a reunion or anything like that – we’re all still pretty close. But for some reason on this night we were feeling nostalgic and decided to watch our high school’s video yearbook. It was so strange [...]

Finals week seems like a years-past blur of caffeine and highlighters and recycled flashcards. We all feel a lot of things that week – pressure, stress, blah, blah, blah, but mostly anticipation for summer. For a lot of us, that means heading back home. Home sweet home. In the high pressure slice of life that’s [...]

Hey, listeners! Hope you had a good week. Welcome back to the Happy Hour. In this seventh episode, we give you a summer movie preview. Let’s be honest, it’s hard to know what to see and what not to waste your time on this summer. We consider ourselves experts–or at least bold enough to give [...]

Four more days. Three not counting this one. That’s been my conversation starter for the past week, mostly because of summer’s rapid approach. It has been in the back of my head. I am especially proud about the conclusion of my first year in college because that means I am quarter of the way there.  [...]

My table was set up around the corner from the store itself. The first person I spoke to that day tried to sell me a bike. Except that he didn’t speak English, so instead of asking he stood in front of me and pointed at the bike, then at me. As he gave me a [...]

So after two weeks, I finally got a job! I’m working at a clothing store in Brooklyn called Peachfrog. I worked there last summer, doing promotional work at Union Square. This year I’ll be doing the same thing but all around Brooklyn. My official title, “iPodder” means I get to give out iPod cases which [...]