generation y
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10 Ways to Not Get Screwed as a Liberal Arts Major
Ah, spring. Out on the quad, Frisbees are flying again. Awkward small talk about classes can happen outside, instead of in the dining hall. And, all across campus, tens of thousands of panicked seniors will be hunched over computers, scouring Craigslist for job openings. Unpaid internships may seem more appealing by the day. Likewise, living…
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The 3 Reasons All Young Adults Are Liberal
Reading Time: ~20 minutes Last month, I wrote a fairly innocuous piece on my Open Salon blog. To say the least, I was surprised by the waterfall-velocity at which comments flooded the article. At first, I was determined to respond to all of them, but soon gave up. What was the point of responding to a comment…
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Why Major in Humanities?
Reading Time: ~3 minutes Last year, when Math majors were struggling with a series to complete their Senior Thesis, I quietly laughed and wrote another short story. But, a year later, maybe the joke was on me. Really, I can’t tell. I’ve got a job, so I’m more fortunate than most (since 56% of my class…
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The Three Faces of Facebook
Reading Time: ~5 minutes I’ve been using Facebook since 2006. I remember eagerly awaiting my college email address so I could make an account, because I had seen a sample account before and it looked like a set dinner table, with all of the silverware and plates and tablecloth carefully laid out. At the time,…
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Gen Y: Vanity and Narcissism Through Music?
Reading Time: ~5 minutes This wasn’t the exact title of the recent New York Times article. It was The Huffington Post-esque “A Generation’s Vanity, Heard Through Lyrics.” Of course, I wasn’t really that upset or offended by the title, I was a little exasperated. I’ve touched on newspapers and their desperate appeal to their vastly middle-aged to…
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Bachelor’s Degrees: A Dime A Dozen
It was March 2010 and I was sitting in one of the uncomfortable, steel chairs of my college’s study hall, looking at the decomposing scraps of snow on the sidewalks below and tapping my finger like a metronome against the mouse. Every now and then, I would gaze at the cover letter on the screen…
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In Defense of the Man-Child
Reading Time: ~3 minutes Kay S. Hymowitz planted a landmine of a post (read: publicity stunt for her book) on The Wall Street Journal last month. “Where Have The Good Men Gone?” claims that a man in his 20s can “live in pig heaven” thanks to revolutionary advancements such as video games, women’s rights, poor social…
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Generation Generalization: Millennials Are The Same As You
Reading Time: ~5 minutes It didn’t start with the amazingly anecdotal “What Is It About the Twentysomethings?” published in The New York Times last August – which featured a nauseating collage of scrawny young kids that looked like the results of a 12th grade art project – but this sure as hell made it official. Don’t get involved, I…
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Hope and Change Are No Match for Our Generation
Reading Time: ~3 minutes On a potentially fateful Wednesday, President Obama delivered his first State of the Union address. I sat back, listened to it, and mentally dismissed everything as an exaggeration or an empty promise. It took me a day to consider why I possessed this defensive mechanism. The answer is simple: our generation…
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