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(01/08/17 11:32pm)
This past week, I ordered an Uber to take me to the Columbia Airport. I have taken several Ubers and figured I knew how the whole process worked. I’ve learned how to make small talk with many different drivers from different backgrounds, with different personalities and from different walks of life. These different walks of life have never wandered past the 65-years-of-age mark, however.
(11/24/16 5:46am)
I am a thin woman. I have been this way my entire life. In fact, I still don't weigh enough to donate blood. This past week during the Carolina-Clemson Blood Drive, I was embarrassed to admit to friends the reason why I couldn't go give blood with them. And then it hit me: In this time of ever-growing women’s empowerment movements and body acceptance messages, it is still hard to find a positive message about being thin.
(11/16/16 7:37pm)
Lurking in the shadows of Russell House and Williams-Brice are final exams. They are silently sneaking their way into every student’s life. They start in August as a mere date on a syllabus but slowly and surely come to dominate USC students' every waking hour come November. Students become obsessed with memorizing facts they will most likely forget the second the exam is over, begin frantically putting together projects or start researching a final paper topic with fervor.
(11/04/16 2:47am)
“What do you want to be when you grow up?”
(10/30/16 9:36pm)
Every so often in the news, there is a story on parental abuse. Often these stories include a child or children being confined to a basement or a single room. We have all heard these types of horrific accounts, and most of us share a similar response of shock and outrage. We imagine the type of psychological damage done to these children and shudder at the thought of ever having to experience such a miserable way of existence ourselves. However, what we don’t realize is that we are participating in something very similar to such stories when we go to the zoo.
(10/19/16 11:28pm)
Four years. That's how long I have to study and test and intern until I can receive a degree in public relations. That doesn't sound altogether unreasonable. Most professions require applicants to have a degree, and most degrees take four years to complete. However, there is a profession that sometimes requires an education minimum of a high school diploma and only 12 to 14 weeks in a training program: the police force.
(10/16/16 11:00pm)
Colin Kaepernick is the epitome of an NFL benchwarmer success story. Thrown onto the field in 2012 when Alex Smith, then the San Francisco 49ers starting quarterback, suffered a concussion mid-season, Kaepernick went on to lead his team to the Super Bowl. Although they lost, he started the next year over Smith and fans were enamored with his style. At that point in his NFL career, he looked like a champion. He quickly lost his hot streak in following seasons, however, and now is a benchwarmer once again. He started on Sunday for the first time this season. How is it that someone who was primarily a benchwarmer until now currently has one of the top-selling NFL jerseys?