Learning how to read your parents is part of growing up. It's always important to learn when it's a good time to hang around and when you should beat a hasty retreat to your room.
After today we'll all be reminiscing about the days when all that was required of us on the first day of school was a paper titled "How I Spent my Winter Break." I for one think this is a still a valuable assignment, and even though a professor would never go for it, a columnist has no problem reverting to elementary school bliss. Admittedly, my break wasn't anything to brag about.
I recently read an article in The New York Times about same-sex education and its drawbacks. According to the study, same-sex schooling leads to greater conformity to gender stereotypes - girls become less likely to branch out and boys become progressively more focused on the assertion of masculinity.
In the beginning, there was food. At the start of the school year, as my roommates and I moved into our new apartment, we each brought along the fruits of a Kroger shopping trip.
I think Stephanie Meyer might be a genius. There, I said it. I hate to marginalize some male readers, but Stephanie Meyer's "Twilight" series is, first and foremost, about a girl.
By now, we've all gotten to that point where we've been forced to realize that summer is over. Fall crept up on us quietly, disguising itself with rainy days and confusing us as we made our wardrobe decisions in the morning.
