This time in the semester is always a delicate balance for me. First of all, Thanksgiving break is such a tease. You're home just long enough to get reacquainted with your couch, TV channels and home cooking,...
Over the course of my time at Georgetown, I've found that I have a difficult time sticking to certain personal goals that I set for myself. These are usually small things — new semester resolutions,...
It is October. Fall has arrived in earnest. The telltale signs are everywhere: the collective female population of Georgetown received the usual autumn memo that it is once again boots-and-sweater season,...
My friend recently likened life on a college campus to living inside the computer game "The Sims."Obviously, this comparison is not perfect because of minor details like our human freedom, or, more heartbreakingly,...
My introduction to thank-you notes as a kid was rather formal, primly fenced in by the parameters of good manners and etiquette. I grew up hand-writing thank-you notes to friends after birthday parties,...
I am compact disc kid.
I've long heard my parents' generation regale us children about the music they grew up with. My baby-boomer parents navigated their way through vinyl, LPs, 8-track tapes and...
It is said that novelist Ernest Hemingway, when asked to write a full story in six words, responded with "For sale: baby shoes, never worn."
A few years ago, Smith - an online magazine that specializes...
Snow days are magical.
As a kid growing up in Chicago, I cherished snow days because they were so elusive. There was not lack of snow, but the city was well bolstered against most types of weather attacks....
