Archive for category: Column: Coming to Terms

  • As the world turns…

    Column: Coming to Terms September 16, 2011 8:17 am no comments

    This time of year is usually about looking forward. When freshman year was over, I looked towards sophomore year, and when that year concluded, I looked on to junior year, and then, finally, to senior year. These days though, my thoughts are much more centered on looking back at a [...]

     
  • College Choices Hanging Over My Head

    Column: Coming to Terms, Opinions April 14, 2011 11:22 am no comments

    There was a brief point in this whole process when I thought making a college decision was going to be easy. Yep, fourth grade was a pretty solid year. In that great time of certainty, I was absolutely positive that I would be in Stanford University’s Class of 2015. Back [...]

     
  • Texting: Killing Communication

    Since the dawn of texting, people have said communication has drastically improved. I disagree. I may be an old man trapped in a teenager’s body, but texting always seems to cause me confusion and heartache. Remember when you could tell what someone was saying by his or her inflection and [...]

     
  • Motion, sans emotion

    Column: Coming to Terms October 15, 2010 12:51 pm no comments

    I’m a big fan of using metaphors. If I were to rank figures of speech, which I’m sure many people do, metaphor would be, at the least, in my top three The best metaphors are the ones where a small instance of life is broadened out to mirror one’s entire [...]

     
  • Spirit Proposal Neglects Many Key Problems

    Column: Coming to Terms, Opinions September 10, 2010 12:00 am no comments

    It is 8 p.m. on a Tuesday in the newspaper lab. The 10 editors, including me, are sitting around a conference table, arguing with one another. No, we aren’t fighting over newspaper design, politics or why we are still at school at 8 p.m. We are debating the new spirit [...]