By Angelice Romero |Staff Writer| When you go on exchange, having a relationship or trying to develop one is hard, almost impossible Many people are opposed to long distance relationships but once you go on exchange, you don’t have much of a choice. Just as you are leaving your friends, you are leaving your significant other as well. Being in a long distance relationship is already hard but when you throw in being in a new place, it becomes harder. When you are in a long distance relationship you have to factor in the time zone differences and you have to remember to trust and respect each other. Being in a long distance relationship myself, my significant other and I find … [Read more...] about A New Yorker in Cali: Long Distance Relationships
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A New Yorker in Cali: Dorm Life
By Angelice Romero |Staff Writer| I feel that the most important part of transitioning as an exchange student is decorating your dorm. Living in the dorms for the first time, I've noticed that these rooms are so bare. I felt like the four white walls were talking to me. For my first week, I had absolutely nothing in my room; it was so painfully bare that I felt like it wasn't really mine. At first I started simple, putting color hooks on my walls, hanging stuff on it and then gradually adding posters and knick-knacks. I had a conversation with my roommates about decorating our rooms and making it feel more like home and we came to a conclusion that these walls were just … [Read more...] about A New Yorker in Cali: Dorm Life
matts pop culture blog – “Movie 43” review
By Matthew Bramlett |Managing Editor| I was so completely shell-shocked at the sheer awfulness of "Movie 43," the Farrelly Brothers' new "comedy," I refuse to believe it actually exists and consequently I have dismissed it as some sort of fucked up fever dream or a possible schizophrenic hallucination. It is that bad. The film is such a colossal waste of twelve dollars that at the merciful end of the film you will feel cheated, as if Peter Farrelly pulled a Madoff and stole your hard-earned money through an elaborate money-for-laughs Ponzi scheme. And then he stole your bike. I have read that since the film stars a bunch of A-list celebrities (as well as a few that the Farrelly … [Read more...] about matts pop culture blog – “Movie 43” review