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In a TED Talk titled “Nurturing Creativity,” Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat Pray Love, explores the creative process. She also explores the word genius. We usually associate that word with a rare person who is somehow marginalized from society and set under a profound light. However, Gilbert argues that instead of being a genius, [...]
At the beginning of the year, six players from the UNC-Chapel Hill men’s soccer team were awarded the opportunity to play for Major League Soccer, the United States’ professional soccer league. “It’s a tremendous reward for our players. They deserve it,” assistant coach Carlos Somoano says. Four players were selected in the 2011 MLS SuperDraft [...]
With rock greats like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones dominating lists of the best musicians of the past century, I’ve often come to wonder who will remain relevant in the decades from now. The other day, I read an old article written by journalist and author Chuck Klosterman about comedian and late night TV [...]
Most people say “ew” to soy before they even try it. They think soy meat is gross tasting and weird, but I would say that factory farmed meat is gross and weird. I try to convince people that veggie burgers taste just like meat, but they don’t believe me. I recently just started buying Quorn [...]
Die Besucherin is a great example of how you can modify prefixes and suffixes in German words to create nouns or verbs. With the stem of Besuch, which means simply “visit,” you can create the verb by adding an -en at the end of the stem or -er at the end to describe a person, so Besucher means [...]
I remember studying for finals last semester and freaking out over my Biology exam. Turning to the help of a few of my smartest buddies, I went to their studying location and was shocked to find that my mastermind friends were high on various substances, including weed, caffeine pills, unprescribed ADD/ADHD medication and cigarettes. Some [...]
My future still remains unwritten. However, as I take a step back and reflect upon the life that I have written so far for myself, I have realized that, like writing, discovering my truest self is a continuous process of editing and revising as each story unfolds with its own unique cast of characters and [...]
Today, I offer a run-down of some of my favorite music-centered movies. My humble list doesn’t include popular films and documentaries like the Beatles’ “Hard Day’s Night” or the Martin Scorsese flick about Bob Dylan, “No Direction Home.” However, I think these movies show the interesting blend of music in films, whether through fictional bands [...]
FALSE. Non-fiction and memoirs can produce the most honest writing; I don’t mean honest in terms of “oh it’s honest because it’s true because it’s not fiction.” I mean that it produces a genuine connection with the subject that is obvious through the writing. How come the negative defines this type of writing? It’s not [...]
