Recently, one of my professors tasked us with reading a variety of professionals’ take on rejection. I couldn’t help but recall my “first”. Not my first literary one, mind you.
For some odd...
I could be wrong, but I am pretty sure you get asked this question a lot: what do you want to be when you grow up/graduate?
How does it make you feel when you are asked it? Confident because you have...
I am going to let you in on a little secret: I’m over 40, earning my MA from EIU remotely (sadly, nowhere near the campus), and I have not told my family I am starting this column.
What if this flops?...
The other night, my favorite 13-year-old ever called me and said, “Kaka, all my so-called friends are talking bad about me behind my back.”
Of course, me being her older sister, I wanted to handle...
I spent part of my Thanksgiving Break sitting in on a sociology class at my previous college, with the main intention of heckling a previous instructor after he had finished the lesson, and of course just...
Time has wings. People who know me know I use this phrase sometimes. To me, it describes a period of time that I can't believe went by so fast.
We’re approaching week six of this semester. For some...
Friends are people who are supposed to care about you and your wellbeing, or so I thought. I recently had a friendship end a couple of weeks ago. The friendship lasted a year and a half and I thought we...
Every day you will come across a situation that brings you stress. More often than not, there is a solution to this problem.
The problem about this is that so many people in the world love to complain....
Eastern seniors offered some advice for underclassmen that may find it difficult to keep up with their classes and maintain social lives.
Brian Smith, a senior chemistry major and resident assistant at...
Sophomore and senior students shared their experiences during their first year of college and advice for current freshman.
Senior accounting major Justin Brenson said taking the successes with the failures...
We all have that friend—the one who has never been in a long term relationship, yet possesses a mouth big enough to contain all the relationship advice one could ever want (but does not)—and we do...
A question I have had on my mind lately is “why do we put so much value in material items or just stuff?” We work our hind ends off in life to buy stuff, whether it be luxury stuff or cheap stuff....
