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 [...]
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Short films-More meaningful than full length?
By Olivia DiPasqualeThursday, July 29th, 2010
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 [...]
College Textbooks Cost Too Much
By Dan SavageWednesday, July 28th, 2010
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 [...]
Haiku, Haibun, Sonnet
By Laura KnollTuesday, July 27th, 2010
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 [...]
Better off without “Spell Check”
By Carolynn McCormackMonday, July 26th, 2010
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 [...]
Concept of Self
By Zack SsebatindiraFriday, July 23rd, 2010
For those of you that have (and even for those of you that have not yet) read Toni Morrison’s exquisite masterpiece Beloved, todays blog is about one of the more obscure themes that is touched on in the novel, that elusive understanding of self. Enjoy!
“I am that I am”. (Exodus 3:14) Short, concise and seemingly [...]






