Sometimes, the best trip is in your own backyard
Categories: Travel Week
A vacation, the experience, isn’t always about finding some amazing, luxurious place – it’s about having a new experience with people you care about.
Communication best learned through wine, friends and food
Categories: Travel Week
Our travel experiences are not necessarily limited to the group tequila shot photos gracing Facebook that have become the stereotypical study abroad anecdotes. We grew up with tehcnology and as we have matured and technology has evolved, so has our way of communicating.
Silver and gold friends: Is there a difference?
Categories: Live
There’s a distinction between “home” friends and “college” friends, and as Gen Y comes of age, we are caught in limbo between home and college, here and there, then and now. But why do we distinguish between the two? Is one gold and the other silver, like the Friendship Song told us?
Don’t Lament, Just be Prepared for a Reality Check
Categories: Live
As of May 23, I will officially be a college graduate. While I am glad to be finished with classes, I do have the huge hurdle of finding a job ahead of me. While I’m nervous about this task, I don’t view it as pessimistically as Mr. Queenan, as he describes in his Wall Street [...]
Sex, Stigma and STDs
Categories: Sex Week
This article is part of the TNGG Sex Week series on Gen Y and sex. Read more from the series here. Once upon a time there were two young college students who didn’t want to conduct meaningless research about how music affects mood or colors on screen and tapping keys or boring stuff like that. [...]
There’s Something About Twitter
Categories: Connect
Conversation with friend while randomly walking around the neighborhood: Friend (very, very curious): So you met these people on Twitter? Me (not liking where this is going): Yeah. Friend (jeers): I thought you were smarter than that. Me (offended): Whaddayamean? What’s that sposta mean? Friend (now choosing his words carefully): I mean, it’s just so…16… [...]
