College Admissions are a Crapshoot and Affirmative Action is Good
One of the earliest exposures to affirmative action I’ve had was on Glee, when the half-Japanese gym teacher Ken Tanaka is trying to convince the kooky guidance counselor, Emma Pillsbury, to go out ...Continue reading
Literally the Worst Thing Ever: Multilevel Marketing Corporations
"Are you an empowered woman seeking a high-paying job where you can choose your own hours and be your own boss with very few qualifications and while doing very little work?" Then you are exactly the...Continue reading
An Annotated Review of the Taylor Swift Trial
By 2013, 23-year-old singer-songwriter Taylor Swift had undoubtedly established herself as one of the most powerful women in her field, having freshly released her bestselling album Red October of tha...Continue reading
The Heartwarming Eccentricity of Playing House & Womp It Up!
My love of Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair, as with most of my current media diet, started with Tumblr. I kept coming across these gifs from Playing House of these two well-lit women I had never ...Continue reading
Studyblr: Your Excuse to Browse Tumblr and Call it a Productivity Motivational Tool
Some time during junior year, I was doing research on potential colleges. College Confidential was a toxic wasteland dump of negativity, Quora and Reddit weren’t quite on my radar yet, and sites lik...Continue reading
Hogwarts, MBTI & The Zodiac: Adventures in Personality Tests, My Most Harmless Vice
I’d never seen myself as a Gryffindor, even as a child, but that was the house I wanted to be sorted into, obviously. (Hermione Granger is the sole reason Harry and Ron survived to be 17.) Isn’t b...Continue reading
Customize Your Phone with Easy DIY Printable Case *with Special Bonus Features!
Though I didn’t get a smart phone until 2013, I’d been looking forward to the momentous day since middle school. Sure, I liked the idea of having a phone with Internet, Temple Run, and all my musi...Continue reading
Sad Reacts Only! Corporate Activism and The Curious Case of The Rare Pride Reaction
A fact little-known to the headquarters of Facebook, studies show that people who are gay during Pride Month are actually gay for the other 11 months of the year as well. However, Facebook’s limited...Continue reading
Anastasia Krupnik: the proto-Lena Dunham of Elementary School Libraries
Not going to lie: Anastasia Krupnik was a total baller in the way bespectacled smart girls from Boston are. She basically epitomizes the “liberal elite,” which I absolutely love. Her world, filled...Continue reading
Tumblr Art Hoe, Zooey Deschanel and All Blog Aesthetics I’m too Messy to Live
While I jaunt through the fields of Tumblr less frequently now, as of several years ago, I was an avid fandom blogger specializing in Harry Potter, Taylor Swift, all forms of Zooey Deschanel and Josep...Continue reading