“Realistically, school, clubs, and work will always be a priority, but writing happiness into your daily schedule—whether in a planner, cell phone, or laptop—ensures that you are dedicated to deliberately make joy a critical part of your life.”
Opinions, Column
Finding Jesuit Values in BC Athletics
“There would be no complaining, self-pity, nor worry. It was time for these athletes to go to work, time for them to change the world.”
Opinions, Column, Featured Column
Appreciating BC After Studying Abroad
“Soon enough, you’ll be tossed into the world as a new graduate with a full time job and rent payments, and you will crave those study days in O’Neill with stacks of case studies to read alongside your goofy best friends from freshman year.”
Opinions, Column
Evaluating BC Through Memes
“Our generation is drowning in student loans, low starting wages, racism, sexism, and a mental health crisis unlike anything America has seen before—this is something much deeper, much more existential than teenage angst.”
Opinions, Column
Stop Minimizing Sexual Assault
“Combatting the status-quo requires that we do not discredit the harm that women endure, but rather empower them by recognizing the context of the story and leaving open the choice of coming forward, without pressure to make any decisions.”
Opinions, Column
The Dangers of Millennial Sophistry
“Social media propagates sophistry daily, and rather than ever facing consternation, the practice often is rewarded with praise.”
Opinions, Column
Celebrating Diverse Body Types
“With everyone constantly comparing themselves to each other, it’s easy to see how the workout habits could be influenced by this.”
Opinions, Column
Determined to Read for Pleasure
“Reading requires effort and deliberation, and after your assigned reading of Kant or Faulkner, turning on Friends seems like the better choice.”
Opinions, Column
Losing the Thrill of Going Out
“I was hoping I would be able to feel that excitement again, but I ended up just feeling old and jaded.”
Column, Featured Column, Opinions
Mattress Firm’s Name Is Officially Not a Pun
“I don’t know whether it bothered me more that she had used a dictionary against me, her “fine friend;” that she had turned part of the response into a marketing opportunity; or that she used the pun bed-ginning—mediocre at best—after spending an entire paragraph telling me that Mattress Firm wasn’t a pun.”
