Category Archives: culture

Pool & Mere Brother Ki Dulhan

By: Gabriela Yareliz “I feel socially pressured to know about pool.” -Priscilla to me as we sat after getting our cap and gowns in the game room; as we watched Changmin duke it out with the nice guy with brown hair. She read my mind exactly. After this social pressure, Bhargava was gracious enough to enlightenContinue reading “Pool & Mere Brother Ki Dulhan”

My failed interviews

By: Gabriela Yareliz Last day of class folks. Yup. People are marching into the 24-hour libraries with pillows under their arms. I am not kidding. I thought I would take a moment today, it being the last day of class and everything, to explain my plight as a journalist these past three years interviewing peopleContinue reading “My failed interviews”

Smooth Sailing

“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”  ―    Virginia Woolf,    Mrs. Dalloway By: Gabriela Yareliz This book is probably the weirdest one that has madeContinue reading “Smooth Sailing”

Final Days

By: Gabriela Yareliz No time to sleep. No time to brush your hair. No time to do laundry. No time. It is that time; end of the semester. Teachers’ demands reach their highest level of impossibility (wink) and they ask for what seems impossible, and we, the students, look sleep deprived and zombie-esque. Sad story. A girlContinue reading “Final Days”

French election “Presidentielle 2012” campaign videos

By: Gabriela Yareliz I had to share these campaign videos. I am taking a French politics class and we’ve been keeping tabs on the 10 candidates. Here are some clips of the top, brilliant candidates (they all are in one way or another). Francois Hollande, the socialist (PS) candidate, came out with a new campaign videoContinue reading “French election “Presidentielle 2012” campaign videos”

One Direction

By: Gabriela Yareliz Maybe it’s the jr. high school girl in me, but this group is really cute. They have that boppy-teen, clean-meaningful-lyrics music. The world is lacking in true poetry that does not disrespect anyone. Anyway, this totally brought a smile to my face…their music makes me feel like I am 12 again (and thatContinue reading “One Direction”

Nostalgia

By: Gabriela Yareliz It is official- I am having serious cricket withdrawals. I have quit freaking out about assignments and failed group projects. As I look around the library I see people in complete exhaustion sleeping on textbooks in defeat. Sad story. End of the semester- 3 weeks to duke it out. I am not sadContinue reading “Nostalgia”