Whether it’s the girl you spent the whole semester sitting next to but were too afraid to talk to, or the guy you had to admired from a distance in lab because of assigned seating, or even that special teacher you convinced yourself was always looking at you when speaking to class, time is running

The St. Petersburg campus of the University of South Florida is at a major crossroads. What does the future hold? Do we want to continue to grow to 10,000 or even 15,000 students? Or are we satisfied at our current student population (which, depending on whose numbers you use to determine what a student is,

My best friend from high school had a baby last month. I didn’t even know that she was pregnant. Out of touch? No. I’m not on Facebook. A social media outlet that I’ve avoided like the plague has wormed its way into my day-to-day against my best efforts. Friends are angry that I never showed

  It’s been a rough week for America — the bombings in Boston, the fertilizer plant explosion in West Texas and while the families of victims of the Sandy Hook tragedy were in attendance, the U.S. Senate failed to vote in a law that requires background checks for gun purchasers at gun shows. However, we

On Oct. 30, 2006, A CIA strike on a religious school in Pakistan killed 80 civilians. Up to 69 were children. On Dec. 15, 2010, a U.S. attack on al-Majala in Southern Yemen killed 55 people. Fourteen of these were al-Qaida members. The rest were women and children. According to a report from the law

Before he attacked the Boston Marathon, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of the suspected terrorists, wrote on the Internet that he had no American friends and didn’t understand them. In the days after he attacked Boston and before he was killed, I hope he finally came to understand what Americans were like. In the days after the

Last week, I went and saw the film “42” while on a date with my girlfriend. Aside from some minor historical inaccuracies, the film was fantastic. For those of you who do not know the movie is about Jackie Robinson who was the first Major League Baseball player in the modern era who happened to

Outside of the welcoming arms of orientation leaders and the four-year bubble that follows, most of the country is freaking out about higher education. The degree you will be handed as you walk across the stage will be worth less than the one your mom and dad earned 30 years ago. It will be worth