Punch and Judy: A Story

“Don’t you think you’ve had enough?” Judy asked her husband expectantly.

Thom,…

the hardest part was getting on the plane

From Jamelah:

I was in my third year of college, and I had a choice to make. The fact that I would spend a semester studying in some off-campus program was a given, and really, there were programs in several places that I could’ve gone for, but I’d narrowed my options down to two. Read more

Time travel to 2005

As Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance echoes throughout Northrup Auditorium on a blooming spring day, your future seems full of freedoms and open doors. No more cramming for that final exam you know you’re going to fail anyway. No more listening to inexperienced grad students lecturing about how the human mind works. Read more

Diminishing Marginal Utility

“Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.” ~Arthur Christopher Benson

Part of my major was Economics and though I did well in college level economic courses in high school, college was significantly more difficult. I retain very little information when it comes to math or science, which is why my attention span for the production possibilities frontier waned after the first 20 minutes. Those precious moments were instead used to think sweet thoughts of J. Crew and how to perfect a keg stand. Read more