After college, I was fumbling my way through life, looking for a career. Somewhere in the haze I got the idea to do stand-up. There was a comedy club in Lansing with an amateur night, so I wrote some corny jokes about Cheez-Its and signed up. I’ve never suffered much from stage fright, but getting …
As a teenager in the late 1990s, I got all my music from the local alt rock station. (92.1 The Edge.) Like every other radio station, The Edge had a lot of contests and giveaways. These weren’t limited to people over 18, so I called in a lot. I won a lot, too. You could …
I still remember my first day of college. I got up early and rode my bike across campus. Along the way, I stopped at a pedestrian bridge over the Red Cedar River, watching people come and go on a beautiful autumn morning. There was just something amazing about the hustle and bustle of the first …
I’ve lived all over, but somehow I picked up a Michigan accent and never let it go. I never realized how strongly Midwestern I sounded till I moved down to Texas. The funny part is that most people here in Dallas don’t have strong Texas accents. For the most part, Dallasites speak a fairly standard …
We had problems in the Academic Assembly. Many problems, in fact. It was student government, after all. We were there to solve problems. But we couldn’t seem to solve our biggest problem of all: apathy. Nobody cared about the Academic Assembly. Half of the student body didn’t vote. The other half didn’t know we even …
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