When my sister returned home from college for a brief family dinner for my father’s birthday, she began to fill the conversation with expressions of great extremism. In an achingly cliche turn of events, she had left home a t...
I don’t take New Year’s resolutions lightly. Many people, those hacks, say they’re gonna go to the gym more, just to buy a membership at Planet Fitness for the Judgement Free Zone and go once before deciding any more will...
I do not care about net neutrality. I hope it gets overturned, and here’s why: How many hours do you think US citizens alone have given social media companies for free? Billions upon unperceivable billions.
We capitulated to th...
You saw the movie. You’ve formed your own opinions. You know what you would have done differently had it been you with 450 million dollars and the weight of not just this world but an entire cinematic universe on your back....
Last Sunday, the Golden Globes were a sea of black. Everywhere you looked, black tuxes, black dresses, and black heels populated the red carpet, were being talked about on every news network, and were being written about on ever...
There were approximately one million things I considered during the college process. In the comfort of Mr. Frappier’s office, I was presented with a seemingly complete diagram of who I was to colleges. Grades, test scores, ...
The Westminster community takes pride in the alleged “well-roundedness” of the student body. This can be evidenced through the girls’ and boys’ cross country state championships, and the spectacular shows of Les Misér...
My friend and I had an interesting conversation with Dean of Students Ralph Geeza on the afternoon of the Friday of homecoming week. Before Mr. Geeza showed up, the two of us were sitting outside of Robinson Hall discussing di...
In 2012, Nintendo, videogame industry royalty, fell from its throne upon release of the Wii U home console. Selling only 13.56 million units over its lifetime, the console, an attempted upgrade of the highly successful Nintendo Wii,...
It’s a well-known fact that Sam Smith has one of the best voices in the modern music landscape. Like his fellow English expat, Adele, he’s capable of stirring emotions—love and heartbreak, mainly, but also anger, indign...
In late July, former Google engineer James Damore circulated “Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber,” a contentious memo into an internal Google server, spurring left-wing fury over his alleged thought crimes.
The ...
Each day as November 1st gets closer and closer, I hear more and more of the same things: “Where are you applying early?” “Which colleges have you visited?” “What’s your essay about?” “Where is so-and-so applying?...