Fan Mail and Shouting Matches

Fan Mail and Shouting Matches / Opinion

Mother’s Day Pink

  When I wake up on Mother’s Day, I’m reminded of two things: One of them is my mother, and the other is not. Like everyone else, I spend a few minutes thinking about how my mother performed herculean labors of child-bearing and child-rearing. I dig up a few personal [...]

Fan Mail and Shouting Matches / Opinion

<3-to-<3 in Ones and Zeroes

I was mindlessly browsing the internet the other day, as one does, and I came across an article promising to reveal the 21st century’s sexiest career. I must say, I never expected Yahoo! Finance to be so infatuated with “data scientists.” Had I been choosing, I probably would have gone [...]

Fan Mail and Shouting Matches / Opinion

Grammar Be Good, But Only Rock Stars Sell Their English

I’m not sure you can call what I do “journalism”; I’m just not sure it makes the journalistic cut. That said, there’s just no other heading for it, so if I can do so without bringing out any real journalists’ pent up rage, I’ll count myself among them for the [...]

Fan Mail and Shouting Matches / Opinion

The Art and Science of Moving Lecture Along

I think there should be a course on lecture hall etiquette but, unfortunately, no such thing exists. That’s why, this week, I’m going to use my status as a columnist to denounce what I consider the most common and irksome lecture hall faux pas. You see, the overwhelming majority of [...]

Fan Mail and Shouting Matches / Opinion

All Eyes on Spring Insighters

This last weekend, my fraternity and I spent the day directing traffic at Spring Insight, the annual event engineered by UCSB’s Office of Admissions and facilitated by hundreds of volunteers. For as many volunteers as we had, though, there was a seemingly endless stream of parents, prospects and families pouring [...]