It’s sunny in Pittsburgh today. The sun is unseasonably bright, not just for March, but for spring even. Light is coming in through the windows, the screen door – even through the cracks in the blinds and the spaces between more…

Applying to graduate programs invokes a fear more powerful than seeking out colleges for undergraduate study. True, college takes longer, costs more and is frightening because it’s your first real foray into higher education. But with grad school, you’ve spent more…

I cannot do work anymore. The late evenings, the interminable classes, the intolerable intolerances of the student body: it has all come to this point, this last push on my will to send it over the edge. It has become more…

Yesterday, I was sitting in a coffee shop, writing the fourth chapter of my senior project, when one of my freshmen friends, CL, came up to me. CL is an artist, a Christian, and an ex-pot-smoker, and someone cursed to more…

What are we thinking about when we think about honor? Many of us think about superheroes. About Batman and his tireless fight against crime to avenge the deaths of his parents. About Superman and his staunchness about the lines of more…

Vanity is a bizarre and powerful force. Like gravity, it’s always present in some way, exerting its influence in ways unseen and mysterious. Humans can be vain without even realizing it, conceited without trying, and narcissistic by just looking at more…

Having completed six entries regarding Western misconceptions of Hinduism, I want to use this topic as a springboard to something that I should have talked about much earlier. In America, the transforming role of the youth has put them in more…