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Don’t Drink Kool-Aid when you have a Plethora of Tastier Drinks Out There: Be Thirsty for Success but Remember to be You

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  Growing up I loved Kool-Aid. I would drink that sugar water like there was no tomorrow. I would plead with my mother to get me the juice pouches and send me off with it with my packed school lunches. Whenever the iconic “Oh yeah!” would play on a commercial or on Family Guy (back when that show was good), I would get excited. Yet, as I grew up, the drink lost its charm and man oh man, how...

I Hate Chain Letters

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ELSIE BORDEN <Contributor> I cannot express in words how much I hate chain letters. Even during the halcyon days of the internet, when gopher was a legitimate protocol and Pine was the email client of choice, there loomed the plague of the chain letter: an abomination born of pipe dreams, superstition and ignorance. By preying on humanity’s most mundane hopes and fears, these cursed...

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