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Esquire recently listed the seven greatest stories it has ever published. The story that took the top slot was “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” by Gay Talese, and it is a masterpiece. Take a moment to read it (after reading my post, please).
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Three hundred sixty-eight days ago I was in snowy Binghamton, N.Y., taking the GREs — the only thing I thought stood in the way of me going to grad school. The GREs or Graduate Record Examination, is a standardized test that many graduate schools require for admission, thus making your life a living hell and jeopardizing your hopes and dreams of attending graduate school, but there is hope.
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Before I start, a disclaimer: This week I’m not encouraging anyone to break the law or to cause a ruckus. This is simply my personal experience. I grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and every year for the last four years I have traveled home for Thanksgiving.
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Here’s the thing about BU… it’s small. It literally is a narrow campus, and as such, it is almost impossible to walk from one end of Commonwealth Avenue to the other without some form of awkward interaction. Sometimes someone new and interesting will catch your eye. Sometimes you’ll run into people you miss and haven’t seen in weeks. More often than not, however, in the small school of more than 10 colleges and 16,000 undergraduate students, you will run into the one person you have tried to forget even goes here. It doesn’t matter how many times you’ve deleted both of his numbers, PINs and screen-names, there is always Comm. Ave. to muck everything up.
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I’ve written my fair share of posts about the future of journalism and The Christian Science Monitor, so it seems only natural that I mention its Future of Journalism event last Thursday. The event, in part sponsored by COM, gathered Ellen Hume, the Research Director for the Center for Future Civic Media at MIT, Mark Jurkowitz, the Associate Director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, Douglas K. Smith, the Executive Director of The Sulzberger News Media Executive Leadership Program, and Sree Sreenivasan, the head of the new media program and Dean of Student Affairs at Columbia University’s journalism school, in a conversation with John Yemma, the Editor of the Monitor.
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Last week provided me a life lesson.
Up until last Sunday, I was moving to Los Angeles after my graduation this winter. I would like to tell you I was moving for a great job, or because I just love LA so much, or because I wanted to become a paparazzo, but the truth is I was planning to move because my boyfriend of two years is in the process of building a film career there. I was actually willing to give up my dream of living in New York City for a man. And I call myself a feminist?
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To Facebook, AJ Vaynerchuk is “a perfect gentleman” from New Jersey who appreciates The Departed and Saw I. He’s a senior in COM where he’s majoring in advertising with a minor in computer science. He’s also an entrepreneur. Vaynerchuk is a co-owner and founder of pleasedress.me, a t-shirt search engine that has gotten huge buzz and serves as a link between specialty t-shirt designers and the average consumers.
This is not another “ride a bike, save the environment” blog post.
Last Thursday, the weather was miserable, and I did not feel like riding my bike only to soak myself in the rain. I live near Packard’s Corner, so catching the T seemed to be my best option. I hopped on when all the doors opened.
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Looking for a way to keep away a case of the “blue Mondays?” Ye need not look further, good Sir Knight. Tucked away deep in Boston is a dining experience like few others. Take a journey back in time to Medieval Manor, a medieval-themed restaurant in the South End of Boston.
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