Archive for April, 2009

It would seem that, once again, universities are demanding that the cap upon tuition fees be removed in order to assert their ‘top quality education’. Universities, at the moment, are set to a strict cap upon fees which sits at between £3,000 and £3,225. Reports from the BBC have suggested that universities wish to...
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Sad but true. Living legend Phil Spector has been found guilty of the murder of some b-movie actress that no one cared about anyway. What kind of world do we live in where OJ, Jacko, and Robert f’ing Blake are big enough celebs to get away with murder/child molesting but a visionary like Phil...
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Just moments ago, I was chatting with my friend from New York on the internet. He said he met a girl last night. Being the  awkward, shy, computer programmer (who recently got laid off) that he is, I asked him how he pulled it off…. “if you’re up front with girls and tell them...
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Gordon Brown first proposed the idea of a National Youth Service to channel teenagers into voluntary work last year. It is due to be formally launched in September, and would become compulsory if Labour was re-elected. Having first read this article on BBC News, I was impressed with the suggestion that Gordon Brown was...
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www.thiscollegelife.com go. i’ll say more later.
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Around two years ago, someone made this mix for me.  During one of the last conversations I had with this person, I admitted to him that whenever I introduce two people, two friends, I’m always scared that they are going to become super close and forget about me. An acquaintance of mine had recently...
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"While I am compelled to categorize drinking as a mere activity, not necessarily an interest, or at the least, not an interest with any intrinsic value, “being skinny” simply cannot qualify as an interest, right? Right!?"
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There is much to be said for the idea of a soul, a proposition which has often been discussed amongst scholars and philosophers. Throughout time, there have been numerous references to the soul. Different perspectives have been put forward. One of the perspectives which I thought was quite interesting was the idea that the...
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Being a busy college student, I hardly ever do the unnecessary 100+ page readings my professors assign me. (That’s a lie, I’m OCD and do all my work but it seemed like a good opening sentence). Anyway, despite my tedious work habits, I continue to do poorly on my not-so-pop quizzes in my Introduction...
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Yes friends, our long national nightmare is finally over and baseball is officially back. Currently, your World (F’ing) Champion Phillies are opening the season against the Braves. Of course, no one really cares until the best team in the world opens their season against Baltimore at 4:05pm tomorrow, April 6th. In the meantime, be...
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