A Thought Experiment

I typically consider myself to be an intelligent person. Because of this, it is obvious that I would expect myself to behave rationally and intelligently. However, I am questioning whether my behavior is rational and intelligent, although this is difficult to tell on a conscious level.
I honestly have no idea how I became as cynical [...]

College Newspaper Life and Meeting Bob Barr

So I have not updated my blog in a long time, mainly because all the cool stuff that happens here at Valparaiso University probably should not be published for my sake and my friends’ sake. Anyway, I’m sure I will be able to find something to talk about:
1) Writing for The Torch. Because I just [...]

Just my luck: The one college chick I spent a lot of time talking to/texting before going to college is a bitch and slut

If I remember correctly, it was early in July when I received an interesting friend request on Facebook. At this point, I had become accustomed to receiving random friend requests from Valpo people, but this one was different. Not only was the chick hot, but she also seemed pretty cool from what her profile said. [...]

Serenity Now, Sanity Later

The following will be an ongoing list of the greatest quotes thus far at my time here at Valpo. As more quotes are uttered, they will be added.
1) “What? You guys are bad friends!”
Context: After we got back from a party Friday night (Sept. 12), one of my sober friends decided to tell one of [...]

I treated a woman like an object and I liked it

It was approximately 11 p.m. Friday night when some of my fellow third-floor friends and I decide to head over to one of the dance parties hosted by frat houses. The first one we went to was a Slip-N-Slide dance party, but for some reason, some of them did not want to go inside that [...]

Off to college: leaving very little behind

In less than seven hours from now, I will be officially leaving home and going to Valparaiso University. Honestly I don’t have the time right now to say a whole hell of a lot, but I will say this: I am ready, simply because I am leaving very little behind: my family (obviously the toughest [...]

It’s been a long time – Part 1 – Work

It’s amazing how actually spending time with people and working 10+ hr shifts at work prevent me from making it to the computer. I have lots to talk about, and as the title indicates, I will be discussing recent work events first.
1) A couple of weeks ago, the store director received an interesting order from [...]

The metal concert: the event where all rules are suspended

Yesterday I spent six hours or so at the House of Blues in Chicago listening to some great (and not so great) bands at the Summer Slaughter concert series. One of the greatest things about these concerts, besides the music, is that when guys receive their tickets, they essentially are given a license to grab, bump, grope, and [...]

A treatise on supervision and the training it does not require

Today I had to help one of my coworkers get on the computer. He, for some reason, did not take his computer courses back when he began working in the Garden Center in March (AKA someone didn’t take his courses for him), so now he had to sit through the monotony. I decided to look at [...]

Six Degrees of Separation? Not exactly.

As I was chatting with my old AP English comrade Travis, somehow he gave me this bright idea for a topic to discuss on my blog: how two random things almost always have similarities.
We arrived at this conclusion after he claimed that phone books and the Internet are similar. While my main contribution to that [...]