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(12/05/16 3:34am)
I received a lot of well-meaning advice and aphorisms in my early college years: “early to bed ... ” and “beer before liquor ... ” among other things. I have mostly taken it as the oblique counsel of grown-ups that comes from romanticized memory and for lack of a better thing to say. One of those few tidbits that still sticks in my brain is, “you won’t be able to procrastinate in college like you do in high school,” invoking the rigor and complexity of the college curriculum. I have found this to be unerringly true.
(11/21/16 3:16am)
If you have been paying neurotic attention to blockbuster releases recently, you may have noticed that there have been seven major superhero movies so far this year, many of them major box office successes. In light of this onslaught, there seems to be a fathomless famine for power fantasy and clean conflict resolution in modern day America. It is worth noting that these films all have one thing in common: The villain is evil, bent on destruction and doomed to fail. It does not take a wise woman to know that none of these qualities describe real-life villains. Yet, so-called “superhero thinking” seems to have infected our public perception. We are shocked to learn that sometimes the villain does win.
(11/07/16 2:25am)
I remember playing poker with a friend who had a particularly heavy emotional investment in the game. He would become raucous in victory, eager to dismiss any doubts once he was the tentative winner of a hand. Equally surly in defeat, he would raise every conceivable contention and wag his finger in a way that reminded me of the orator Goebbels. Redeeming personality aside, his continued participation ruined the game for everyone else at the table.
(10/24/16 2:10am)
As we all know, the presidential debates mark the tail end of the two-year-long campaign for president of the United States. With the cicada-esque lifespan of the campaign coming to an end, television networks across the country reap record ratings by broadcasting these debates. Some of you may still remember the debate from this past week, which drew 71 million viewers, and which represents the conclusion of the most-watched series of presidential debates in history.
(10/10/16 3:10am)
Two weeks ago I promised a disparaging NSO column. I’m lucky world events lined up so well. Like most of you, I was shocked to read about the drama in the wake of Canada’s carbon summit last week: In response to a proposed universal $10 CAD tax per ton in 2018, Nova Scotia’s minister left the building.
(09/26/16 3:35am)
When I was in high school, eating disorders were coming into their own as a public health menace. We had a lot of fun watching videos on the subject in health class. We learned, shockingly, that eating disorders are bad. We even heard testimonies from those who had recovered and seen the errors of their ways, or maybe they were child actors reading lines to the same effect. In short, you were a fool to get involved with eating disorders.
(09/24/16 5:29pm)
GROUP THINK is the DP’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick. Read your favorite columnist, or read them all.
(09/12/16 3:55am)
I was arguably a better writer after four years of high school than I am now, after four years of some of the most expensive post-secondary education that money can buy. I don’t mean that I’ve forgotten how to use the language — that would be hard since I’m fluent in only one despite having completed Penn’s foreign language requirement. It’s just that what was laudable for a high schooler is mediocre for an undergrad. Stagnation in this skill may impact my professional development, and it’s worrying to neglect what is for many a “raisen detter.”
(09/09/16 5:38pm)
GROUP THINK is the DP’s round table section, where we throw a question at the columnists and see what answers stick. Read your favorite columnist, or read them all.
