Friday afternoon as I exited the building where I work, I was handed a sheet of paper.  Due to the ridiculous amount of papers I am handed every week, like many students on campus, I normally recycle the paper, or politely decline.  However, that day I decided to take the time to listen to her [...]

You’ve been hired for a new job. It was a pretty typical procedure: send in resume, interview, interview again, possibly interview a third time, learn that you’ve been hired, celebrate, fill out paperwork, and then you get to go to work. By the second interview the employer has a general sense of who you are, [...]

It has been nearly a year since I submitted my last post as a staff member to the Consider blog, and since then I’ve graduated from college and have been lucky enough to go off to study in France for a year on a Fulbright grant.  As Wonderful as that is, it’s often easy to feel far [...]

It’s Saturday night — Sunday morning, more accurately — and you’ve got a craving for something greasy.  Power-walking down South U with a sense of conviction, you don’t let the siren calls of Jimmy Johns, Panchero’s, or South U Pizza infiltrate your wax-filled ears.  You journey onward until arriving at an all-too familiar staircase.  Like a thirsty man [...]

After having an hour-long conversation with a professor in the Computer Science department about gerrymandering, I decided to independently research the topic in pursuit of an answer to one of our most baffling questions: “If the political capital exists to follow through with true redistricting procedural reform; then which solution(s) should we, as voters who would [...]

Now that the election season is over, two words are making headlines and crossing the lips of pundits and politicians more than any others: “fiscal cliff.” It’s almost December, and that means that in a little over a month, unless Congress can agree on a new deficit reduction plan, a package of major tax hikes [...]