“But Avery, Carleton boys are just so nice!” This is what my friends constantly shoot back at me when I start to complain about a male on campus. And you know what? Carleton boys, or men if you are...

“Back in my day, if you went to college it meant one thing: job security.” I think that by now in our (young) adult lives, we’ve all heard an expression along these same lines. To my mother’s...

This past Friday I visited the animal shelter. Usually this involves meeting a handful of very friendly, adorable cats and another handful whose primary purpose in life is to leave as many scratch marks...

My twin sister is always quick to remind me of how “gorgeous” the “men” are on her campus. She brags of D1 athletes who by day pump iron at the gym to the joy of onlookers and by night party shirtless...

My greatest fear is flying. It’s illogical because airplanes are the safest form of travel. I’ve gotten better over the years, but that sense of a slight panic upon liftoff gets my nerves going every...

Every year my high school raffled off a trip to Disneyland with one of the most well liked teachers from my school. He was one of my favorite teachers too, mostly because he was a combination between...

I distinctly remember my first love, and how it all came to be. It was the summer before my senior year of high school. I was sixteen. But unlike my friends whose first loves were boys or girls, mine...

I think that most students have had this same experience: you see a guided tour and overhear what the guides are saying. Most frequently this has occurred to me on fourth libe, or somewhere near the chapel...

For my whole life I’ve heard the phrase that “college will be the best four years of your life.” I can’t determine if that’s the truth yet, but there is one thing that I know so far: college...

On the top of my Christmas list every year was one thing: a dog. And until I was twelve, that dream didn’t come true. Now I can completely understand my mother’s logic in waiting to adopt a dog....

Over our tremendously long (ha) Midterm Break, I visited my twin sister at Colgate University in upstate New York. During my stay, I began to notice the striking differences between Colgate University...

Let’s face it: childhood was pretty incredible. And even though we’re now in college and have the freedom to do pretty much anything we please, there’s always a part of us that will want to go...