Note: As the year winds down — and graduation approaches — the editors at The Crow’s Nest want to offer their insight on life at USF St. Petersburg. This is the first in a three-part series. In fall 2013, The Crow’s Nest staff sat around a table at Flipper’s Pizza on Fourth Street, talking about

Are you tired all the time? Do you catch yourself being late for work or school because you pushed the snooze button four times too many? Did that happen to you today? If so, you might be lazy. As our internal clocks continue ticking down to “zero hour,” most of us reach a point in

Goodbye comfort, hello hell. As the final days of cool weather escape us, we can expect the temperature to steadily rise, culminating with the months-long period of African heat known as a Florida summer. Sure this means more trips to the beach, but it also means higher electricity bills and, for those of us who

Last week, Twitter introduced a new app that may be molding the future of news gathering. The app is called Periscope, and it is set up so anyone can live stream what they are seeing. The app is so new that it is only available on iOS. The Android app is still under development. Yes,

Some of us were born to travel — constantly fighting an itch to explore and immerse ourselves in other cultures and landscapes. I’ve read articles about the alleged “wanderlust gene” and how somewhere around 20 percent of us have it within our genetic coding. It hasn’t been identified as an actual, scientific thing, but I

The departure of Stephen Colbert and his decade long satirical news program, The Colbert Report, left a void in the hearts of many. The Colbert Report appealed to the same type of audience as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart—snarky, college-educated progressives under the age of 40.  But Colbert was unique in that his unprecedented

Smile at strangers. Specifically on campus, but you can extend your friendliness frontier beyond the confines of USF St. Petersburg. It doesn’t have to be a fully committed, wide-toothy grin kind of smile, but maybe something along the lines of, “Hey, I noticed you, and I hope you’re having a good day.” Even the most

It seems that “creating campus traditions” has been a phrase used at this university for a long time. Campus traditions are crucial for students at a university to feel a sense of belonging and pride with their school. But often, it can seem like a phrase that just gets thrown around. But in the past

In the aftermath of the shooting late last year at Florida State University, lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow students who hold a concealed carry permit to bring their firearms on campus with them for self-defense. Unsurprisingly, this has stirred some controversy. The bill will continue through the necessary committees before it is

I loved “American Dad!.” So when the animated comedy was dropped from FOX last year after its 11th season, and then picked up by TBS, I was concerned but cautiously optimistic. In the beginning, the show’s doubters shared one common complaint—that it’s nothing but a cheap knockoff of “Family Guy.” The Smiths were nothing but