College has been a weird experience for me so far. This is my sixth semester in almost as many years. I know, Dad. I’m going really slow, but just give me a little while. I’m getting there. It seems...

In the five years since I have graduated from high school, I have had 27 roommates in 12 different apartments in six states. I have seen my share of rotten food, empty toilet paper rolls, and pairs of...

They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. By that definition, I must be the most insane person in the world when it comes to...

There is a staunch difference in the way a guy interacts with his guy friends and how a girl interacts with her girlfriends. Take breaking up, for example. When a girl’s boyfriend breaks up with her,...

Unlike most boys, I didn’t grow up building things. I never sanded, screwed, plied or painted really anything outside of Cub Scouts. Even then, I paid one of my friends $2 to have him build my pinewood...

I’m really glad that I got married, because I really needed a stylist. I was picking out an outfit for a job interview a couple of weeks ago, and for the life of me, I couldn’t figure out which shirts...

I decided to take a couple of classes this summer, mainly because I really needed another science class to finish off my associate degree. Science has never been my stronghold. The only thing I ever understood...

Marriage is a beautiful institution. Two people set aside their personal interests to become one. This union is marked by a (hopefully) once- in-a-lifetime ceremony commonly referred to as a wedding. In...

Peer critiquing in the college creative writing process is a double-edged sword. On one hand (this is a double-edged metaphor), someone will pick up your whimpering, fledgling little creation that you...