Students shuffle through two lanes of lines, weaving through the Reef cafeteria. They lean against the glass that shields the food from their touch as they mumble their orders. Servers dip their ladles and spatulas into the serving bins and onto stoves, hasty in their delivery. “How are you today?” [...]

Fighting to stay alert in my four-hour night class last week, I found myself perturbed by one classmate’s repetition of particular filler phrase. In response to our professor, this classmate recited a 30 second monologue in which she followed almost every sentence — and some sentence fragments — with, “You [...]

What makes a university? First there is some land. Then there are some buildings that contain classrooms, the all-important library, a dormitory for students to live, offices for faculty, staff, and administration, spaces for students to gather and relax in between classes, restrooms are a necessity, water fountains for both [...]

One thing that has always cracked me up is people’s legitimate fear of one another. We’ve all been conditioned to “not take candy from strangers” or “stay away from the guy in the creepy van,” but I am astonished by how many people actually fear human interaction. I honestly start [...]

We are now halfway through the spring semester, and it has been a tough academic year for two of the three revenue sports for the South Florida Bulls. These sports are football, men’s basketball and baseball —commonly referred to as “The Big Three.” The football squad finished with a dismal [...]

A few weeks ago I was mindlessly browsing the racks of clothing at Forever 21 when it happened. A Nicki Minaj song came on. The lyrics of which were, “I’m on the floor, floor. I love to dance. So give me more, more, ‘till I can’t stand.” Poetry. Now I [...]

Bar etiquette should be required with the privilege of drinking. After polling bartenders and witnessing first handedly the obnoxious behavior of drunken patrons, I figured I’d compile a list of the dos and don’ts: Don’t be the creepy guy that has to grind his way past a group of girls, [...]

When I first meet people, one of my biggest fears is that they think I’m gay. Not that anything is wrong with being gay; I’m just not trying to scare away potential datable guys. I’m flirty with everybody and use humor as an icebreaker. No one has flat out asked [...]

Live at home for the first year of college, they said. It will be fun, they said. Ah, commuting, such a delicate, misunderstood beast. Caught in between life on campus and elsewhere, the commuter student tries to have the best of both worlds. But it doesn’t always work out that [...]

Feb. 6 was National Signing Day for college football. For those of you who don’t know, signing day takes place on the first Wednesday in February when high school seniors sign letters of intent to attend a certain college to play football there. I love college football, probably more than [...]