Fake profiles are nothing new to Facebook, especially in the college world. After hearing about the infamous “Lauren Cohn” of yesteryear, it was little wonder to me (and many of my classmates) that Phaiye Blaount turned out to be a fake too. After getting numerous Northwestern students, primarily incoming freshmen, to believe that she was [...]

With the bed sheet dilemma taken care of, I figured that outside of finding a little money to fund my education, getting a few shots and reading about Darwin, there was little else I needed to worry about. Wrong (now, that’s a first)! It turns out that if I plan on making my dorm room [...]

I always love getting mail. Birthday cards, magazines, college brochures, hefty bills from big name universities; you know, the fun, feel-good sort of stuff. That’s why, upon returning home from a family vacation on Monday night, I was elated to find not one, not two, but three large envelopes from Northwestern, and a graduation card [...]

Back in elementary school, I was never able to fall asleep the night before the first day of school. I would race to the bus every morning, and once in class, I would thrust my hand up in the air and jolt it from left to right, up and down, whenever the teacher asked a [...]