Finals week is an incredibly stressful time. No matter how well you plan, somehow it seems there is just never enough time. In recent years, more and more college and high school students have been turning to prescription medication to help them through stressful academic times. The most commonly used […]

With Halloween over, the fall and winter holiday seasons are in full swing. Stores are gearing up for the most important consumer holiday of the year: Christmas. In earlier years, the Christmas shopping season did not start until “Black Friday,” the day after Thanksgiving. More recently, however, the shopping season […]

Halloween is the first major fall holiday. People go out and spend money on ridiculous costumes, pumpkin flavored everything and obscene amounts of candy. Another classic Halloween tradition is Halloween-themed movies. To some, that means something so terrifying that sleeping becomes virtually impossible. Either way, Halloween movies and television shows […]

The goal of a liberal arts education is to leave college knowing a substantial amount about a particular field, as well as bits and pieces from other fields. While this is ideal in theory, it is an inconvenience in practice. The Mount Holyoke College distribution requirements, as described by the […]

The 2012 release of Marvel’s The Avengers was a huge hit. Overall, the movie received rave reviews and praise, except for one complaint. In the entire movie, only one “main” character dies. The death of Agent Phil Coulson came as a surprise to many fans who had grown fond of […]

AM, the Arctic Monkeys’ newest album has debuted to some critical controversy. While some listeners appreciate the record’s new sound, other fans feel that the band has changed too drastically. The Arctic Monkeys morphed out of the dreary rain and fog of Suttfield, England in 2006. They broke into the […]