Last week, I was sitting in my favorite chair at my favorite table at my favorite corner of Kibo Midnight Oil Coffeehouse. It was a Thursday afternoon, which is my…
The old saying goes “April showers bring May flowers,” meaning that after a time of discomfort a period of goodwill will follow. But right now it’s not just raining —…
In July 2017, I made the decision that I had been wanting to make for over six months. I switched my SIM card from my smartphone to a flip phone.…
Highway 78 in Birmingham has never been my lucky stretch. Five years ago, I was heading home to Arkansas from Georgia after the holidays. My Toyota Camry — with its…
When we first began planning what this issue’s special coverage regarding addiction would look like during the fall semester, I knew the content would be heavy, and I knew the process…
One of my biggest fears is that someone will ask what I’m listening to when they see me sitting in the library with earbuds. It’s not because I’m listening to anything…
Over Spring Break, there was a massacre in New Zealand. On March 15, I woke to news alerts proclaiming that two racially targeted mass shootings occurred consecutively at mosques in…
I write with grievance in regard to the shadow of apathy cast over academia by the current generation. In conversations every day, people complain about what they are learning and…
Over spring break, I spent over 30 hours in the car. (It should have only been about 25 hours, but some of my travel companions had to make pit stops…
It’s six months before your trip to Walt Disney World. You are consumed by every little thing that absolutely has to be done in advance for your trip to be…