Back to school means the early and midnight cram sessions. Unfortunately, my Sunday night ritual, which would have been watching new episodes of "The Sopranos," will not be a staple this semester. All of my anxious waiting for the new season to begin would finally be over except for the fact all of my hopes have just been dashed - the new season is not beginning until March.
Kinesiology sophomore Matt Lewis knows where to find shirts with funny sayings plastered on them, and it's not from the local mall. Students looking to update their closets with fresh styles of clothing for fall don't have to venture far from campus. Right across the street from campus are several stores that sell anything from MSU boxer shorts to Grateful Dead T-shirts. "A lot of the brands I had never seen before," Lewis said, describing what he calls the underground appeal of clothing found at Blue In The Face, 213 E Grand River Ave.
Most of us know who Jim Morrison is, and well, you're no Jim Morrison. But why should that stop you from throwing back a few shots of whiskey and belting out "L.A.
Cult movie fan Andrew Bishop knows he has to keep with up the times if he wants to maintain his cinema collection."A lot of places only sell DVDs, they don't even sell VHS movies anymore," the merchandising management junior said.
Usually I don't watch "The Oprah Winfrey Show." It's not that I dislike the show or anything, but it's just not on my must-see TV list. But a few weeks ago "Oprah's Favorite Things for Spring" caught my eye. After the segment on neon pink flowered flip-flops, Oprah introduced a new gadget to her millions of viewers. It was the Apple iPod - a small mp3 player that stores thousands of songs.
Get ready to kick up your heels and enjoy some of fall's upcoming flicks coming at a theater near you.
Going away to college means making new friends, lots of studying and of course, parents coming to visit.
You walk down the dank, musty corridor past room 433 and hear your neighbor watching "Commando" at full volume on a surround-sound system bigger than his room.
Get it while it's...raw. Sushi has recently become the hottest - or coldest - lunch and dinner option downtown and in neighboring communities. Local spots serving the dish have been popping up in past months since sushi popularity has been increasing in the Midwest.
So you've finally made the transition to MSU. The dreaded orientation period is done, and now you're left on your own to figure things out.
For college students, a 12-by-12 space serves as their kitchen, living room and bedroom all-in-one. Not a whole lot of room for furniture, let alone two people. And Welcome Weekend can sometimes be spent looking for decorations to turn their bland dorm room into the space of their dreams - and on a small budget, too. Drafting Professor Mary-Margaret Munski says in order to get the most out of their dorm room, students should focus on space-saving techniques. "Any time you have a small space and a lot of clutter, it makes your space look smaller," she said. Munski suggests buying crates or storage shelves that can be stacked to save space and are useful for storing anything such as books, food, clothes or shoes. Having a "design conference" with roommates also can make decorating easier, Munski said. "Sit down with your roommate, come up with a theme, budget out some money and go shopping," she said.
The following sporadic thoughts and rants have been building up in my head for the summer, forcing me to spew forth a column on what makes me lift my butt off the pot. To begin with, I will no longer eat at a Subway.
Students looking to travel do not need not to look very far for a game plan. East Lansing is home to more than 10 travel agencies, a study abroad office and other various plane, train and automobile stations students may look to make travel plans.
If you're a freshman and tired of finding out where the closest house party is, you might want to consider heading out to the theater to catch the latest flick.
New DVD titles and $2 VHS tapes are being offered to students by the Residence Halls Association movie rental offices this fall. Last year, RHA movie offices rented more DVDs than VHS by a margin of 4-to-1, said Adam Raezler, movie office director for RHA.
In the quest for the illustrious java, one can only hope to make the right decision about where to invest precious time consuming their coffee. East Lansing offers a variety of spots to suppress sleep.
Some say they hardly ever, while others say they do it too much. Regardless, studying has got to be done to stay in school. From coffee houses to dorm rooms, MSU and East Lansing offer hundreds of potential study spots for every Spartan.
What fits in your back pocket, plugs into your ears and is as useful as a jukebox? Many students say it's an mp3 player, an increasingly popular alternative to portable CD players. Winston Glass, a telecommunication, information studies and media senior, said he has two mp3 players. "If I go on a trip, I pack light, I take my laptop and this," Glass said pointing to the Apple iPod attached to the waist of his blue jeans. A MSU Computer Store employee, Glass said he sees lots of students coming in wanting to buy the small handheld music player. Most mp3 players cost $99 for about 64 megabytes of memory.
"S.W.A.T." proves summer action films follow the same, tired good-guys-with-guns- beating-up-on-bad-guys formula.
Robert Randolph and the Family Band are like a breath of fresh air in the stale music industry. "Unclassified," the group's latest release, beautifully meshes funk, blues, Latin, rock, country and gospel into a brilliant, adrenaline-filled collection of great tunes. Whether laying down instrumental jams or lyrically driven rock, the group's disc has something others lack.