They are often spotted lounging outside Powell Library or
lurking around the entrances of lecture halls.
Since smoking is not allowed inside any campus building,
including dorms, student smokers assemble to finish their
cigarettes outside before entering buildings.

I am still waiting for the national sense of seriousness to set
in. Here we are as a nation, potentially facing our biggest threat
in history, and we are still gloriously over-consuming.

It would be nice if I could roll out of bed 15 minutes before
class starts and walk to campus. It would be nice if I could crawl
home, disoriented, after a night about town in Westwood.

What did we write on our college applications in
response to why we wanted to attend college? Stock responses
include “to be exposed to diverse kinds of thinking and grow
as a human being,” “to gain access to higher
learning,” and “to not focus solely on grades, but also
on being a useful person in the world.”
All this B.S.