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This past week was move-in time for the freshmen at the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie-Mellon. If there was a resounding cry uttered from the lips of Pittsburghers it was “AVOID OAKLAND“, the neighborhood of both schools, which was a mad house of freshmen, their parents, and everything these 18-year-olds owned, including a few ponies [...]

In case you missed it by either sleeping the week away or avoiding internet news all together, the cover story from the New York Times Magazine was a pretty big hot topic, in that it was at the top of the most-emailed list for days and has been the subject of numerous articles since- What [...]

What do you do when you want to blog but you’re extremely pressed for time? If it happens to be a Friday, you turn to the Friday5, of course. Because who doesn’t love answering questions so they can pretend they’re being interviewed like a Very Important Person.* *Probably Very Important People, who are asked questions [...]

Andrea Disaster, 25, is a fan of the Sunday Routines column in the New York Times. Even though she’s not a media mogul or a Broadway star or hell, even a New Yorker, she wanted to share with you her Sunday routine, if nothing else to give her the opportunity to write in third person [...]

Two weekends ago I went to a family reunion for my dad’s mother’s side. Thanks to work and life and stuff, I hadn’t seen this side of my family in a few years. There were new babies and little kids that I never met. Now that I have cousins significantly younger than me, I finally [...]

Well, yinz guys, I’m about to go on my first big solo road trip* to a family reunion in mid-New York state, the Fingers Lakes region. Wine country! I’m pretty excited, even though I had a few things trip me up this morning, i.e. picking up the GPS from my parents, stopping in a Starbucks [...]

In addition to my grey hair, another thing I’ve learned to make peace with is the fact that not everyone who meets me will like me. That may sound a little weird or not that big of a deal to you. Maybe one day the fact hit you and you just went back to whatever [...]

Sometimes I have to remind myself that things won’t go as planned not matter how solid and swimmingly everything is going up until that certain point. It’s not that I haven’t figured this out on my own yet, but when I’m looking forward to something, I can have tail-wagging puppy-dog enthusiasm. And unlike the puppies, [...]

I’m going to get through this entire blog post without using the q-word. Just you watch. First: I hate, hate, hate that this stresses me out. I honestly do. I feel like such a fucking cliche. Just another educated middle-class kid who doesn’t know what to do with her life. Trust me, the irony of [...]

I had this subject line saved in my drafts from months ago, but nothing else written. I’m not sure what I was going to write, though I will say that this is probably the truest statement I could ever make. Actually, not probably, it is. This Friday was not a fun one, with such calamities [...]