US News reports that “Research in the Journal of Clinical Psychology has found that only 64 percent of New Year’s resolutions are maintained after one month and, six months later, less than half still stand.” Alright, fess up.  How many of you have fallen off the wagon?  I’ll admit that I made quite a few [...]

As the saying goes, time flies when you’re having fun. This may be true, but I cannot seem to gauge how quickly four years has gone by. At the risk of sounding a little bit like my mother, it really does feel like it was just yesterday when I made the decision to come to [...]

Check out what we’ve been talking about on our blog, All Things Consider, last week on the last Weekly Word Cloud of the school year! By: Tanya Rogovyk

Catch up on what’s been going on over the weekend. Yesterday marked the 100-year anniversary of the sinking of Titanic. Check out how the event was covered in the news in the year 1912. The rainy weather today was caused by a large storm that covered the midwest. Luckily, only one tornado out of the [...]

1. In an editorial for the Washington Post, George Will asks, should hard drugs be legalized? He cites new research that found imprisoning someone for a $200 drug transaction can cost society $100,000 for a three-year sentence. 2. A new craze is sweeping across China: English tattoos. Though just like tattoos of incorrect Chinese characters here in the West, a [...]

I don’t know about everyone else, but I am ready to close the books and head for the hills.  My brain is fired and eager to experience what I’ve missed about the world over the past nine months.  It seems fitting to explore National Geographic’s Best Spring Trips of 2012.  I have pulled out a [...]