Sticking It To The Big Man: The 3/50 Project
Not long ago, I was shopping and killing time while my younger brother was getting a haircut in my hometown of Northampton, MA. Another cold January afternoon in New England, I figured nothing but hot cup of coffee could fill the void winter creates.
“Well, I’ll walk down the street and hit up Starbucks,” I thought [...]
Media
Facebook: Are you really who you say you are?
Will change personality for work…
During my junior year participating in the National Student Advertising Competition team (NSAC) I became very close with a girl on my creative team, Nicole. Over the summer we both acquired jobs at different advertising agencies in our college town.We liked to joke around about how important we were and would [...]
Life
Values
The Misplaced Motivation Of The Bra Burners
Out of the many worn, misused and misinterpreted words in present-day English language, “feminism” is high up on my list. It is not hard to come across bra-burning misandrists, raving and ranting against the opposite sex, screaming for equality – all in the name of the convenient excuse they call feminism. Onlookers applaud their heroism, [...]
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WWJSD
What would John do?
It has been made fun of, mocked, copied and even challenged and yet we keep coming back to everyone’s favorite fake newscaster. The Daily Show with John Stewart, and its equally “conservative” cohort, The Colbert Report, have become trusted news sources for us meager millennials. But what exactly is it about this [...]
The Interview
The Interview: Lucy Setian, environmental blogger
Lucy Setian just won the overall impact award on TH!NK ABOUT IT: Climate Change, a 3 month blogging competition with a focus on the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15) in December 2009 and organized by the European Journalism Centre. She blogs on everything green from eco-sex to Bulgarian green initiatives to interactive plant fights. [...]
The Question
What’s more important, getting into a high ranked college or one that might give you a better education?
Let’s say you get into Berkeley or Harvard but will be shuffled off to classes taught by graduate teaching assistants as the real professors focus on graduate students. Or you get into a smaller, but less prestigious college, perhaps undergrad programs only where real profs teach you. Which do you choose? Is [...]
