Those extra pounds you packed on may be costing you more than your looks.  There is talk about a tax on fatty foods, similar to the tax on cigarettes, because of growing health care costs for obesity. CNN Money says, “Come 2015, it is estimated that 40% of American adults will be obese, which […]

I’ve written about Bob Garfield‘s The Chaos Scenario before, but I can’t seem to get away from it. It almost seems that each individual sentence carries its own point. I want to share with you a short excerpt from the book’s 2nd chapter The Post-Advertising Age: “Mass advertising flourished in the world of mass […]

This past Thursday and Friday, August 27th and 28th, the QUEST honors program had its annual orientation at Camp Horizons in Virginia. QUEST is a multidisciplinary program that intertwines the minds of business, engineering and computer sciences students, and has a reputation for producing some of the most creative and […]

A college education is an amazing asset that can get you very far in life. But it doesn’t give you the full scoop . Until this summer, I am not sure I had any idea what life was really like. Luckily, my internship gave me a dose of the work that goes […]