Academic Perspective

Some say that cyber communication is the best thing ever, while others think computers are out to get us. When formulating our opinion, it is best to consider all of the facts. What’s good? What’s bad? It can be hard to tell.

April is an exciting, desperately anticipated month for countless high school seniors across the country who eagerly await the bulky envelope containing that coveted acceptance letter. However, for an unfortunately large percentage of soon-to-be high school graduates, April means the end of their formal education. This phenomenon, perpetuated by financial concerns, past academic failures, and [...]

Take a moment to think about the past week in your life. What stress, if any, did you experience? What could have been the source of that stress? The American Psychiatric Association consistently cites one sweeping cause of stress in its national and focus group studies: feeling overburdened. Now reflect on your personal responses to that feeling [...]

“To make [one] covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain,” wrote Mark Twain in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, an American classic. The Bush administration’s approach to marijuana makes one thing clear: it did not heed Sawyer’s advice. Drugs are often a taboo subject. Very few are willing to [...]

For most of us, waking up is unpleasant. The first thing we hear in the morning is a blaring alarm, or the radio turning on, or in many cases, someone walking in and yelling at us that it’s time to get up. With this type of emergence into wakefulness, it is no surprise that most [...]

Every December 25th, Christians in America celebrate the biggest religious holiday of the year, Christmas. And much of non-Christian America celebrates along with them, albeit a little guiltily. Coming from an atheist family, I am one of the many non-Christians who celebrates Christmas every December. We don’t believe in Jesus. We don’t believe in the [...]

It’s a brand new year. And that means a brand new you! New Year’s is an opportunity to reflect on the past year, to remember the memories you’ll cherish forever and the moments you’d like to forget. It is also a perfect chance for everyone to make a commitment towards improving themselves and their quality [...]

“When I was your age and we needed to know something, we looked for it in books…books!” Sorry Mom, but I never have spent hours in the library searching for facts and I doubt I ever will. I strive for efficiency, simplicity, and ease when completing tasks, and luckily for me, a paperless world allows [...]

Ads on every TV, radio, billboard, newspaper and magazine all say the same thing come December—it’s the most wonderful time of the year. It’s wonderful for everyone; wonderful for the companies that sell presents that then advertise them, wonderful for the various media outlets that get money for those advertisements, wonderful for the parents that get [...]

Organics. Chemical Free. Bio based products. Lately, it’s all about saving the world. We need to go green, to recycle, to make our carbon footprint smaller. And now- lucky us, it’s become the latest trend—you can buy eco-friendly almost anything. Clothes? Yep. Toys? You got it. Even water bottles have gone “green” with their new [...]