Archive for ‘April, 2009’

Senior goodbyes

Four years ago I sat up all night and popped Nodoz in my high school dorm room to write my ‘Senior blurb’ for the yearbook. The blurb was a goodbye and thank you to everyone at my boarding school that I would ‘never, ever forget’ and would ‘love forever.’

So long sweet semester

For the past couple of weeks I have been toying with the idea of writing a paper on popular culture’s place in American studies. As a minor in the interdisciplinary subject, I’ve read countless articles on the topic, both for and against the integration of pop culture in the classroom.

LETTER: FreeP’s standards questioned

My name is Taylor Aldredge. I am a Student Admissions Representative for the Boston University Admissions Reception Center and a journalism major in the College of Communication.

Why Union failed

There are two types of people in Boston University’s Student Union: those who care and those who care about themselves. To those in the first category, know that the following is not directed towards you.

KIRLAND: The whole Glenville thing

Everyone has his or her own lifestyle. It’s a simple fact that has become more and more clear to me as this semester comes to a close. No matter how much Chicagoans and Midwesterners like me want to complain about how the people on the East Coast-and Northeast especially-are colder and more self-centered than people back home, we really shouldn’t.