Category: Viewpoints

With just a couple more weeks remaining in the semester, I’ve begun to do a lot of reflecting on my experience here at the College. There are a lot of things I wish I could have done and said, but unfortunately there just isn’t enough time. Still, I can’t leave here without passing along just…

My first request for a donation from the Alumni Association arrived in my mailbox this week, so I guess I am officially leaving Wooster soon. I will not be sending in $5, or any money, at least for a while. For one thing, I’m about to head into an hourly job and try to get…

In my first semester as a student at The College of Wooster, an acquaintance of mine, Madeleine O’Neill, convinced me to come copy-edit for the Voice, playing on my pedantic disposition toward grammar. During the second semester, acquaintance Dominic Piacentini invited me to write a movie review for the “Arts & Entertainment” section. (I chose…

I have two very different rants to make. One is about being poor, and one is about being a musician – I promise they’re not related. They’re only minimally researched and are mostly based on my immediate thoughts, so take them as you will. On being poor: as of today, I owe $66,738 in loans…

When the plane touched down at Tokyo Narita International Airport two years ago, I didn’t realize then how an exciting vacation would also create a new lifelong friendship. Leaving Narita, the Keisei Skyliner glided on the rails up to 100 mph, the hum of the tracks so subdued that I noticed the quiet passengers. After…

We’ve all had the feeling. It is early in the morning, and you lie in bed knowing that you cannot spend another day pretending that everything is okay. Yet you wake up, driven by some ever-present urge to satisfy a system you may not even buy into. Why do we do this? Maybe part of…