The Next Great Generation

An online magazine written by and for the Millennial Generation.

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How To Be a Starbucks Addict

By on Sep 20, 2011
Categories: TNGG Weekly Columns

I love Starbucks like people love their pets. When I’m not in the store, I’m drinking their coffee at home. Like other frequent coffee house patrons, I’ve developed an addiction to the bean, and can’t go without it.

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Moleskine Getting a Modern Makeover

By on Mar 29, 2011
Categories: Business

The traditional leather notebooks, allegedly used by the likes of Hemingway and Picasso, are getting updated with a new collection of products suited for the 21st century Moleskine addict.

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They tried to make me go to rehab, and I said, ‘Yes, Please!’

By on Dec 1, 2010
Categories: Lifestyle

What is the message the media is sending us about rehab? The people America idolizes — rockstars, superstar athletes, film goddesses, pop princesses — make it look like everything it’s not.

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Love Bytes

By on Oct 14, 2010
Categories: Lifestyle

Using the Internet to indulge every lovesick whim and chemically imbalanced addiction is like being a sex addict living with a hooker or a chocoholic working at Hershey. The Internet leaves your vice free to entice 24/7, 365 as long as you’ve paid your Comcast bill. It’s virtual S&M.

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Caffeine and energy drinks, the ninja drugs

By on Jul 30, 2010
Categories: Drug Week

To say Gen Y is addicted to caffeine is an outrageous understatement. That’s like saying Wile E. Coyote kind of wants to catch Roadrunner if it’s manageable and doesn’t cut into his lunch date with Yosemite Sam. No, Millennials are full-out lunatics for caffeine. Not only do we consume tons of coffee and soda, but have come into the world of energy drinks, energy shots, and, so help me God, energy pills.

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Gen Y loves their cigarettes

By on Jul 29, 2010
Categories: Drug Week

Millennials still light up, even though we have always known that cigarettes are bad news. So why are we still smoking? Here are three reasons.

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TNGG Blackout – Five Days Being Social-Less

By on Apr 26, 2010
Categories: Technology

I’ll freely admit that I’m a social networking addict. Like a bad episode of A&E’s Intervention, I saw all the warning signs but did nothing to stop. I couldn’t go a day without updating my twitter accounts (yes, two). I couldn’t stand waiting around for someone without checking Facebook. So when the opportunity came along [...]

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