I’ve never been good at goodbyes. This past Sunday, my mom and I went to the AT&T store to upgrade my iPhone. I’d first gotten my iPhone 3 the summer before leaving to start freshman year of college. Between typing out countless self-addressed pep talk memos, storing copious amounts of music, and unknowingly over-texting my new [...]

I’ve got a confession to make. This blog post was supposed to come out sometime this past Tuesday, about four days ago. But there was just too much going on all week. Here’s a recap of what happened before I finally sat myself down to tackle this post: Sunday night I watch the 2011 Billboard Awards and [...]

As of yesterday—May 16, 2011, I can now say that I have grown to two decades and one year on this planet.   Birthdays have always been my favorite holiday—not just mine, mind you, but also those of my friends and family. I’m the type of person who shops for birthday cards half a year in [...]

Finals week. These two words are perhaps the least appealing out of the entire English vocabulary to the college student brain. Stir in a not-so-healthy case of Summeritis (yes I did just coin this term—copyright May 10, 2011) and you’ve got someone who’s less focused than a kid in a candy store. Or the aggregate of [...]

The summer after sixth grade, I began watching MTV because there was nothing else on in the afternoons. (Aside from paid programming that advertised vegetable peelers and ab-rockets.) It was then that I promptly fell in love with Total Request Live , VJ Damien Fahey, and the idea of being a VJ for TRL someday. I watched the show for [...]

This weekend, while all of my classmates were trying to figure out how to get A’s on their finals, I was passing Procrastination with flying colors. Despite having a 30-page screenplay and a ten-minute speech due by this week, I spent the entirety of my Friday afternoon on Facebook: liking statuses, traversing down memory lane with [...]

From its instant take-over of the U.S. television airwaves to its churning of expert judges quicker than Simon Cowell himself could say, “Next!”, American Idol has been a music star-making machine like no other reality show. Sure, I’ve seen Star Search, Pop Stars, Making the Band, and America’s Got Talent, but Idol has been the one to captivate my …[Read more]