Originally published September 3, 2010 If you would have asked me six years ago if Christopher Nolan was going to be the most talked about director of the day, I would have laughed in your face. I mean, this was a cult British director who…
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Originally published September 3, 2010 Everyone has a summer job story. Some of you may have had a mindless internship, making phone call after boring phone call all day, all summer. Or maybe you were a nanny, or worked in retail, or actually spent your…
Originally published September 3, 2010 Sometimes it’s hard for me to be the occasionally practicing Catholic that I am. And it’s not because I find it hard to make my way to Mass, though I do. It’s because after roughly 2,010 years, the church still…
Originally published September 3, 2010 “The library is awful” – it’s a complaint heard emanating across campus, in nearly every class, nearly every day of the week. But what is the library’s actual problem? Is it the lack of materials? The building itself? What? It’s…
This has been quite a year at Bradley. It has been, without a doubt, one of the most exciting times to be on the Hilltop. From the fall fight for MAP grants to the spring push for a mascot – it’s been a great year…
I don’t spend a lot of time online. OK, so that’s not entirely true – I’ve been known to waste an afternoon or two Facebook stalking. But for the most part, I’m pretty Internet illiterate. I don’t spend hours on YouTube, I’m not what you’d…
I may be a peace-loving, diplomacy advocating, human rights junky, but nothing gets me more excited than fictional terrorist killing. The first half hour of “Predator” is cinematic gold (the rest is hit or miss for totally different, mostly Carl Weathers-related reasons). I’ve seen “True…
The past four years seem to hold every best and worst memory I have had, every important lesson I have learned, every new best friend I have made, every detail I learned about myself and every gain in maturity I have made. Four years ago…
It seems that more than ever, students are worried about their own safety on campus. That’s why when students received ForeWarn text messages early Sunday morning alerting them an intruder was on campus, many were on edge more than they would have been a year…
Less than eight days of actual classes separate me from unbounded, glorious freedom for two whole weeks before I don my cap and gown and graduate with honors. Immediately after that, I’m moving to Galesburg to start my career as an education reporter for the…