Here’s the write up I did for a play I saw on Friday. This is entirely of my own volition, mostly because I have an interest in ancient drama and Old Comedy in particular, and because I’m unlikely ever to see an authentic staging of an Aristophanic comedy. Click on the subhead to be whisked [...]
I didn’t intend to write anything for this particular issue. That was, of course, until I received a text message from my editor asking me to take this piece since it required a trip out to UTSC from the city, and this was the only instance in recent memory in which my suburban poverty has [...]
Well, this was a pain in the ass. What should’ve been an easy and straightforward news piece about student/campus charity initiatives for Japan turned into a massive hassle because apparently very few people yet care enough to mobilize their humanitarian efforts. Oh sure, any other natural disaster can afflict any other country, and U of [...]
Against my better judgement, I’ve spent time writing an article for this week’s issue. Sure, it only took me an hour, but that’s still an hour which could’ve been better spent flipping through an Ancient Greek dictionary trying to make sense of Euripides. Anyway, for our weekly debate we settled on whether or not the [...]
Eh… being an (over?) achieving undergraduate isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Early mornings, long days, late nights, extracurricular malarkey (like this), a part time job, trying to stay healthy, etc. It’s just such a strain. Regardless, I fired off this quick article for The Newspaper on Wednesday night for Thursday’s issue, and that [...]