No matter how much time you spend at the gym or how well you stick to your new diet, you may still be neglecting an important component of your health: your skin. Even a yoga-practicing, vegetarian health nut (i.e. yours truly) can wake up every morning with dry skin on her hands and a new zit on her face.
It can sometimes seem daunting to try a new hobby, especially one that involves bending over backward and standing on your head. Yes, I’m talking about yoga. Though it has been practiced in India for millennia, yoga has become increasingly more widespread in recent years, with studios cropping up all over the globe.
When we first started college, my boyfriend called me one day to share an interesting bit of news. “During our president’s welcome speech, the rabbi from the Spiritual Life Center blew the shofar,” he said. “It was incredible.”
“What’s a shofar?” I asked.
My Valentine's Day weekend had a fiery start and a sweet ending.
Though I’ve grown up in the digital age, there are some Internet phenomena that never managed to draw me in. I refused to join MySpace. I refuse to join Twitter. And although I waste a good chunk of my time on Facebook, I don’t understand why people are changing their profile pictures on a weekly basis.
My first week of spring semester got off to an unusually busy start. My foray into the German language finally came to an end on Monday morning, when I sat through my last three-hour lecture and took my final exam. I quickly had to switch back to Russian mode the next day and spent the better part of two hours recalling how to decline words I hadn't used in over a month.
