A new program at Tufts University plans to help students who plan on attending the school have that "gap year" experience, including volunteering before starting on their degrees. Starting this upcoming fall, the 4+1 program will provide funding for traveling including airfare and travel visas (the bane of my existence), …
Kids today, what with their Mexican parties and "Asia Rager" parties and homeless parties — what's their deal?
The medical worrywarts of the world have determined that not only are American adults obese, not only are American kids obese, but now, officially, pets have joined the wheezing, stolid ranks of the obese WALL-E-like Americans wandering aimlessly through Costcos from sea to shining sea. Why officially? For starters,…
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[Massachusetts, December 14: Tufts University sophomores Katie Hagerty and Marisa Shapiro pet Meika, an Australian Shepherd mix, and Troy, a chocolate labrador mix. The dogs were brought campus in an effort to help students reduce stress. Image via AP.]
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Sitting down to write my "goodbye" post to you all was really tricky: What to say? What is there to say? I found no easy answers. But the last time I tried to do some meaning-making about my time at Jezebel, I didn't have the opportunity to share it with you all, so I thought I would take this opportunity now to do just…
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File this under Totally Awesome. Project Runway has taken its supreme awesomeness to a whole new level this year: Included on the show's official site, instead of just bios on the designers and judges, there's also profiles of the models. And they're so like whoah! And they seem to, er, be written by the models…
