What comes to mind when you hear the word “nerd?” I think of a boy with glasses who likes computers.

Yes, a boy.

One speaker at a recent Dell convention in Denmark capitalized on this bias, telling attendees that, “All the great inventions come from men… we can thank… Read full post »

Everyone knows someone who has done it. I mean, I kind of knew some people who had done it it in the past.

They're not close friends or anything.

 One is my grandmother, but who can expect anything less from someone who depends on a singular corporate source for… Read full post »

When I listened to the debates about the Affordable Health Care Act in front of the Supreme Court justices the other week, I had one recurring thought:

Why couldn’t we get a lawyer who didn’t stutter every time the law was challenged?

My second thought was: Yes, of course… Read full post »

Ah, April. Out on the quad, Frisbees might start flying again. Awkward small talk about classes can happen outside, instead of in the dining hall. And, all across campus, tens of thousands of panicked seniors will be hunched over computers, scouring Craigslist for job openings.

Unpaid internships ma… Read full post »

I've been watching the developments around the Keystone XL pipeline project closely since November. It has been one of the most ironic issues I've ever seen.

Let's recap: in a move that surprised just about everybody, President Obama vetoed the project last fall.

He rejected it again when Republicans/… Read full post »

It's official. Scientists have declared that the American people may be "too dumb to pick the right person to lead us."  

I admit that I had had my suspicions for a while, but this exhaustive study confirms it. We're simply not informed enough to pick wisely among our candidates. Then… Read full post »

This past Sunday, I decided that it was time I saw a Superbowl. I don't know positions and I don't know players, but I live in New England, so I knew what team I needed to cheer. The other thing I had heard about was the sheer enjoyability of the commercials.… Read full post »

In 1991, a memo was written. It was signed by Larry Summers, who would eventually go on to become the director of the National Economic Council for the Obama administration, where he would mostly ignore Obama's direct orders to reform banks. At the time of the memo, he was the Chief… Read full post »

Last month, I wrote a fairly innocuous piece on this very blog. To say the least, I was surprised by the waterfall-velocity at which comments flooded the article. At first, I was determined to respond to all of them, but soon gave up. What was the point of responding to a… Read full post »

Remember the Tea Party? That force of sweeping outrage that brushed a whole new Congress into power? It seems that every time I turn on the television (or, come on, glance at Google News), there's some burning hot talking point espoused by Republican presidential candidates that would successfully en… Read full post »

 I'm 23. I've used Twitter since September. Coincidentally, my mom started a Twitter account around the same time. Take a gander at the two accounts, if you will. My mom has 194 followers at the time of this writing. I have a measley 82.

My mom has more Twitter followers than… Read full post »

 Before I start, let's take a look the word I instinctively chose to represent "flu shot." I chose "THE," not the more casual and far less menacing "A." That's a common choice of diction when it comes to vaccines these days, whether Michelle Bachmann is saying that she met an anonymous… Read full post »

I was stunned when I first read the article on ReelSEO.com entitled "5 Video SEO Tips To Help Elizabeth Warren Beat Scott Brown." No, not because I actually found the article that rivteing - although the points were salient - but because I had never actually thought about the intricate rela… Read full post »

Did anyone else feel a kind of dull depression when the stocks first dove recently? Or an exhiliration when they seemed to rise again? Are you a stockbroker? Probably not. 

We've reached a point where the things we feel don't have to have any impact on us whatsoever, because we instead… Read full post »

In late June, Amy Winehouse stumbled onto a stage in Serbia, where she slurred words and lost track of the song playing behind her. TMZ gleefully reported that "tickets to the show were roughly $57 -- a lot considering the average monthly salary [there] is $428." To go on: "Money... spent."… Read full post »

It wasn't a long drive to Company X's building, but it was a complicated one that involved a dubiously legal U turn and toll booths that seemed decorative at best. I also got to tour some of West-Of-Boston's finest pseduo-highways, resplendent in pothole magnifience. 

I remember the first time I… Read full post »

Last year, when Math majors were struggling with a series  to complete their Senior Thesis, I quietly laughed and wrote another short story. But, a year later, maybe the joke was on me. 

Really, I can't tell. I've got a job, so I'm more fortunate than most (since 56% of my class… Read full post »

Global warming. A "conflict" in Libya. The two forgotten wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A shortage of water. Of food. Of oil. The fact that girl/guy you Facebook stalk is still going out with that hideous guy/girl. A Congressman's Tweeted bulge. Not to mention earthquakes, tornadoes, and tsunamis.&nbs… Read full post »

I was in a bar in downtown Boston a few weeks ago when my friend said that he had gotten a Newcastle Brown Ale. The mere name brought up a roiling gut reaction of primal rage, mixed with a little bit of nausea. But I couldn't remember why. 

"Can I try… Read full post »

When the Kindle first came out, I remember a distinct feeling as my heart sunk into a swamp of pessimism. This is it, I thought. I am an English major, an aspiring novelist, a "writer," at literally the worst time in American history of the world to be one. In other… Read full post »

I've been using Facebook since 2006. I remember eagerly awaiting my college email address so I could make an account, because I had seen a sample account before and it looked like a set dinner table, with all of the silverware and plates and tablecloth carefully laid out. At the… Read full post »

This wasn't the exact title of the recent New York Times article. It was The Huffington Post-esque "A Generation's Vanity, Heard Through Lyrics." Of course, I wasn't really that upset or offended by the title, I was a little exasperated. I've touched on newspapers and their desperate appeal… Read full post »

It was March 2010 and I was sitting in one of the uncomfortable, steel chairs of my college's study hall, looking at the decomposing scraps of snow on the sidewalks below and tapping my finger like a metronome against the mouse. Every now and then, I would gaze at the cover… Read full post »

I know you've heard the hype. Teenagers are Tweeting each other from their phones. Scratch that. Everyone is Tweeting from their phones, because they all have fancy new smartphones (kinda). Companies are in a panic to follow suit, creating accounts and begging people to follow them. 

I think it'… Read full post »