• Happenings in My Life

    How Firm Thy Friendship

    As my friends and I rushed the field on Saturday night after our one point win over Penn State, I was overwhelmed with inexplicable emotion. It felt electric, maybe. I feel that way while I’m at concerts too, but this was a little different. It was similar to our win last year over Michigan, when we also rushed the field.…

  • Happenings in My Life

    My Sister Peyton

    It’s been a while! I took a break from writing for a couple weeks for midterms. Today, despite the constant whirlwind of political calamity I could comment on or whatever, I’d rather diverge and talk about how cool my sister is. My eighteen-year-old sister Peyton visited me this weekend for kind of the first time ever (without the rest of…

  • Current Events,  Happenings in My Life

    Not Quite a Millennial

    I hate the word millennial. “Millennial” is really not a word we 18-34 year olds use to describe ourselves, anyway. It’s usually used as a cop-out for people over 35 to blanket the self-entitlement and liberal narcissism of young people. We young people say the same things about Baby Boomers, of course, and I won’t pretend that we don’t. But…