Tag: nightlife
The Post-Grad Burn Book: 16. Birthdays After 21
Until I turned 21, I was always itching to grow older. As a little 2nd grader in elementary school I thought the 5th graders were intimidating and an 8th grader in middle school I thought high school kids were old and any Junior or Senior was scary. As a freshman (and sophomore) in high school, [...]
The 10 Commandments of College
1. Thou shall hook up. It’s exciting being in a brand new world full of strangers. You don’t know anyone and no one knows you. No one knows your past and you don’t know (or care) about anyone else’s. You have a wide variety of prospective hook ups and the possibilities are endless each year, [...]
Red Carpet 411
We live in a culture where mediocrity, among other unwelcomed misfortunes such as grey hair, muffin tops, and oh God don’t say it wrinkles, is heavily feared. None of us want to be ordinary. We desire notoriety, billboards with our faces plastered on them, perfumes named after our favorite adjective; in other words, the modern-day [...]
What Happened To All My Friends?
I have no friends. A statement thought by almost everyone who has recently graduated from college at least once… or, let’s be serious, at least once a week. We aren’t used to this whole thing. For four whole years the world revolved around our social lives. We were forced into living with peers and being [...]
The Post-Grad Burn Book: 6. Mondays
Monday. The day after Sunday. The day after the day after Saturday. The day that means our freedom is over and we have to go back to doing whatever we were doing before the freedom commenced. I hate Mondays. Every Monday comes with an unwanted need to sleep, a hangover from living life with no [...]