I spend a pretty decent amount of my time people watching. I people watch on my way to class, in class, at red lights. If you’re reading this in the Quad, I’m probably watching you right now.
Just...
People must think I am the least Hispanic Latino ever.
I speak English 24/7. I despise spicy food. Music like merengue and salsa gives me a headache, and you will never see me willingly playing soccer.
Honestly,...
Oh, whatever will we do about the National Football League?
The past month has been a nonstop public relations disaster for the NFL. Beginning with the dreadful Ray Rice footage, the NFL is slowly revealing...
With the Halloween season upon us, ghosts, ghouls and other scary sights are starting to pop up around Baton Rouge. But there is one place near the University that strikes fear into students and travelers...
I used to think I was smart. I also used to think I was funny and that people liked me. Sure enough, I was wrong about all of those things.
College is kind of like a series of mousetraps. For the first...
Last year I had the liberty of being one of the team leaders for College Reunion, the culminating event for the University’s Black History Month celebration. It’s a time where students from...
Last Thursday, amid countless cries of freedom, presumptions of English bastardy, unsolicited kilt upskirts and, in one instance, flaming bagpipes, Scotland held a referendum vote on whether they wanted...
Last Friday morning, after the referendum results came in, I was meeting a professor in his office.
“It’s just so goddamn depressing,” he grumbled, gesturing to the USA Today headline...
In LSU’s Fall 2014 Distance Learning Programs Guide, there’s a picture of a young, supposed “GEOG 1001 student,” with a quote that says, “Excellent course! I enjoyed the flexibility...
Imagine your role model is giving a moving lecture.
You’re sitting in the middle of a crowded auditorium and you’re getting emotional as they reach the climactic point that changed his or her...
It wasn’t just the customer’s guilt that started dwindling when McDonald’s announced plans to put tablet-based ordering systems in some of its restaurants across the globe. The higher-ups...
I think we can all agree — the world is going to hell in a handbasket. It seems like there is a new conflict springing up every week. For the past few months, we’ve been hearing about the Islamic...
