This Thanksgiving, I say we should be deeply thankful for the sheer ineptitude of the state.

As you may or may not have already heard, the Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year is “selfie.”

Certain forms of reality TV actually have the potential to affect my reality — and to make it a better one.

Allowing exam regrades is an important part of a fair grading system, but we as students must reevaluate our attitude towards them and be more selective when requesting them.

I think we overspend a lot of our money on food. Yes, a sandwich from Houston Market is convenient, but do we really need to be spending six or seven dollars on an uninspired meal every day?

So in a recent lecture, where class-directed question after class-directed question went unanswered, floating over the turned-down heads of slouching students, I couldn’t help but wonder: What ever happened to cold-calling?

Some classmates and I were eating breakfast before our next classes at a cafe right across the street and therefore had front-row seats, unable to leave the cafe for the duration of the assault.

With Thanksgiving as our ultimate feast of gratitude, here’s a toast to all my professors who have nurtured my inchoate mind.

The complaints about hormonal birth control pills are extensive: They make women feel moody, bloated, tired, excessively horny, nauseous and so much more.

Robert Frost erred when he said to take the path less traveled — always travel in herds, and don’t look around.

Ford’s supporters seem to forget that this wasn’t a legally ambiguous sex(ting) scandal — it was an elected official breaking the law by abusing a banned substance.

A few days ago, I had a deep conversation with a friend — something that I had been missing for a while.

It’s great to know that the healthcare.gov site is working for the massive 1.6 percent of the population that is running Linux.

At Penn, I am continually impressed with the accomplishments of my fellow students but often underwhelmed by their ability to justify why those accomplishments and causes are important.

It seems that, especially on a college campus, reading for pleasure has become a rare activity.

To declare e-cigarettes a silver bullet to smoking simply because it is the lesser of two evils is to blatantly ignore the lessons we have learned from tobacco control.