A group of girls in one of my classes are always going on about their relationships.  It seems like all they do is complain about their significant others: how inept they are at listening, their lack of commitment, their inability to ever clean out the fridge.  I began to wonder what they actually liked about [...]

Ever since high school I have always had male friends, and ever since high school I have been accused of being in love with them.  Granted, this was not always completely off base, but generally it was assumed that if I spent any time with a member of the opposite sex I must have romantic [...]

It all began some years ago when I was roughly 12 and watched Night of the Living Dead.  Not a good film.  It’s very old, black and white, and I guess one of those “classic” horror films (read: more cheesy than scary).  Being the pansy that I am however, it scared the crap out of [...]

So, I’m trying to get all of my graduate school whatsits organized, which is quite the ordeal considering the number of schools I am applying to and the hoops I am required to jump through for each.  Application shenanigans aside, right now I am focused on studying for the subject GRE examination in Biochemistry, Cell [...]

Why is it that so many people feel the need to alter themselves in some way to please others?  We all want to be liked, no one can deny that.  However, it irritates me to no end how some people will go to extremes to try and fit in.  Everyone knows what I am talking [...]

Life tends to make no sense and is, for lack of a better term, a bitch sometimes.  The people you love don’t always love you back, things refuse to work out the way you would like them to, and the second you think you have it even slightly figured out you take a look around and [...]