Peter Gibbons of “Office Space” said it best: “It’s not that I’m lazy, it’s that I just don’t care.” Those simple words can sum up my entire college career in many ways. I really would like to write that five-page paper sooner than the night before it’s due or read the book instead of just seeing the movie.
I wasn’t your average high school student.A lot of kids had standard nicknames stemming from popularity status, sports prowess or good-natured fun.
My car broke down Saturday. But aside from that, it was a relatively good weekend. Still, the damage has been done. So, I’ve been looking for someone to blame for my misfortune.
If you don’t want your teenage children to get roughed up by police, then teach them not to steal cars. That’s what I would have told a group of about a dozen people who turned out at a meeting earlier this month to discuss an investigation into Lansing police officers’ use of force in arresting two teens. For those of you not familiar with this story, let me offer you a quick recap.
Sometimes I really miss Napster. I’d often hear the song that’s been in my head for a week on the radio while driving home from work.
The complexity of human love makes rational discussion difficult. We think we understand what it means to love and be loved.
During the past three years I occasionally have ventured outside of my tea-steeped apartment and tried to experience the near-mythic bar scene at MSU.
I hate award shows. I mean, I really, really hate award shows. At first, it’s fun to pick your favorites to win.
I cry. A lot. On a weekly, sometimes daily, basis. The reasons range from utter grief to irrepressible joy - anything that tugs at my overly sensitive heartstrings.
The teaching assistant in my Integrative Studies in Arts and Humanities course was not ashamed. “We expected we would have three TAs for this course,” she told a cross-section of about 100 students.
It’s a cool, clear and breezy November day. Everyone’s anticipating the turkey roasting in the oven, but not as much as they are for the Lions’ game.
In most respects, I consider myself to be a fairly average guy. Like most average guys, I want to finish school, find a desirable job and potentially settle down with 2.3 children and a house in suburbia.
Not making the NCAA Tournament is not the worst thing for the Spartans. In fact, it may be the best thing for the young team. The Women’s National Invitational Tournament is giving MSU another shot at postseason experience, allowing the Spartans to prove they will be a dominant team in the future. Assuming the Spartans (16-12) had made the NCAA Tournament, they would have received a low seed.
For many people, this is the most wonderful time of the year. Christmas is second. And a distant second at that. March Madness is the time of year when basketball fans, gambleaholics and the like get together and fill out their NCAA Tournament brackets. These people predict the winners of 64 games (play-in game, 32 first-round games, 16 second-round games, Sweet 16, Elite Eight, Final Four and championship game) in the NCAA men’s basketball tournament and submit them to their respective pools.
Today, love obliges me to defend hate. A grandiloquent sentence to write, but humor me. On Feb.
Humans can do some pretty rotten things to one another. That is the main reason why news makes me sick to my stomach a lot more than I expect it to. During the week prior to spring break, the nation’s eyes were turned to Massachusetts, where a bounty of Roman Catholic priests have been accused of sexually molesting children.
A crime wave of unparalleled scope and depth has hit the cafeterias of this once-safe campus. Right under our collective noses, from the inside of seemingly banal cereal bowls comes a threat to the very fibers of our freedom and well-being as students.
I’ve never been a very good politician. When I was younger I could blame my lack of politicking skills on my inability to do anything that required coordination - or maybe it was the glasses and braces.
By TARA MAY The State News Trust is an issue at the heart of most relationships. Especially friendships - they aren’t family we get stuck with and make the most of.
I missed my favorite television program Wednesday. It’s a special time I put aside every Wednesday night at 10.