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Ch-ch-ch-changes: Another year gone

I won’t lie to you. Of all the people to be occupying this space at the back of this student newspaper, of all the former student writers who have left the student life for something else altogether, of all the people who could be capable of some sort of authorial claim over the cold reality and unspoken trials of post-graduate life —well, I gotta say, I’m probably not your girl.

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Looking back: New Year’s resolutions

The past year has seen the end of the Ugg boot, Hurricane Katrina’s devastation in the Southern U.S., a Homecoming celebration of dizzying new lows and the tendency of Kanye West’s “Gold Digger” to become indelibly stuck in my head.

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November 25, 2005

The forgotten merits of clean hands

When Robert Fulghum wrote All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, he wasn’t kidding. After all, the most important lessons in life are learned very early—we just have a tendency to consistently forget them. Lessons like the importance of having clean hands, for example.

November 18, 2005

Unmasking Facebook.com

Like its name suggests, Facebook is the new online social network that puts names to faces. It allows you to look up that guy you randomly hooked up with last night or that girl who worked out beside you at the PEC last week. Consider also the number of hours you can spend people-browsing, and procrastinating form. So, what exactly is so great about Facebook?

November 18, 2005

Dissecting the Facebook

Keep in mind that even though your Facebook profile gives you the opportunity to express who you are without restrictions, you might want to think twice before you post that picture of you smoking a fat cone or list “passing out on people’s lawns” as an interest. You don’t know who might be looking at your profile next.

November 11, 2005

DIY: the new fashion statement du jour

When I was a child, my mother banned the word “bored” from my vocabulary. Perhaps it was this, or the influence of my grandmother’s love for handcrafts, that led to my sisters and I becoming serious crafters.

November 4, 2005

What it means to be a cool academic

If you’re Jeanette Herrle-Fanning, you could decide to defend the realm of video games—often dismissed with a label of “bullshit escapism,” as she puts it, or just uncool—in the framework of fantasy as a literary genre.