November 20th, 2008

Thanksgiving Blues

Escape From IV: Extreme Edition

By Jimmy Fremgen

I just got off the phone with my Grandmother, who asked me what my plans are for Thanksgiving. When I told her that I didn’t have any, she was shocked.

“No one invited you over or anything?!” Unfortunately I had to remind her that no one celebrates Thanksgiving over here and that next Thursday will just be another day for me. It’s an absolute tragedy.

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November 18th, 2008

Dressed for Success

By Micael Kemp

A question we hear almost daily is “What do I wear to an interview?”

The short answer…

This:

NOT this:

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November 18th, 2008

The Great American Smokeout

By Michael Takahara

My roommate, Matt, during my sophomore year was Korean. I liked him a lot. Matt worked in a liquor store over 30 hours a week, enrolled in 22 units and got straight A’s. His favorite bands were Erasure, Queen and Andrés Segovia. I admired his courage to leave his country and family to study in America.

Matt was a smoker.

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November 14th, 2008

Pour One Out

Escape From IV: Extreme Edition

By James Fremgen

Britain isn’t exactly known for its culinary delights, and Scotland even less so. There is not a whole lot you can say about the complexity of a culinary culture if the most famous signature dish called haggis, which involves stuffing a sheep stomach with everything else left over from the butchering process. Arguably worse is the prevalence of something called Black Pudding. When you think of pudding, you are most likely to imagine some sort of amazingly delicious chocolate dessert. In sharp contrast, Black pudding is made up primarily of blood, which is cooked until it congeals, and other sausage fillers like oatmeal and barley.

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November 11th, 2008

Movie-watching for slightly obsessive people

By Britta Gustafson

Many years ago, I spent hours after school reading The Easter Egg Archive, a compilation of hidden details (“easter eggs”) in movies and software, placed by the creators as in-jokes for their friends and other people who pay close attention. OK, there wasn’t a whole lot else on the Web back then, or maybe I just didn’t know how to find anything else. But now, there are lots and lots of websites about obsessive movie and TV details, and many of them are more exciting than finding out that you can play pinball in an ancient version of Word.
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