I am currently taking a Writing in Comedy and Humor class to round up my senior year.  The assigned readings for this class are in no way the type of “homework” one avoids.  I feel like I’ve cheated some type of system by taking this class—getting a good grade for reading David Sedaris is just [...]

I’ve always had a deep rooted appreciated for film in every form, but dwelled mostly on the lengthy cinematic blockbusters spit out by Hollywood or foreign films that I had to pick apart and try to gleen the meaning from its ambiguous content. I saw it as: The more difficult to understand/longer the film, the [...]

Along with tuition rates that seem to increase each year, there has been no relief from book expenditures for classes.  And the fast-paced quarterly system at Drexel makes it feel like you are buying new books every other month.  Often, you buy a book that a professor insists is necessary, yet it barely gets used [...]

The New York Times published an article last week covering recent releases of poetry collections from authors like Brian Turner who writes about the war in Iraq and Lightsey Darst and her first book, Find the Girl. Poetry, the article says, is a “necessary if underappreciated cultural work — that poetry, even when it’s snubbed [...]

As a result of tools like “spell check,” grammar and spelling mistakes have probably increased, which seems counterproductive. The major problem that “spell check” does not yet have the capability of correcting the wrong use of a word that sounds the same but is spelled differently. The difference between “then” and “than,” the popular culprit [...]