HC COLUM BLOG
Thursday, May 17, 2012
We all know you don’t buy a pair of shoes without asking for a friend’s opinion first, right? But what about when you’re shopping online or your best friend goes to school in another state? Bing has a solution for that!
The new Bing has incorporated the best of social media and the best of algorithmic searching to create a totally enhanced search experience. Whether it...
Friday, May 4, 2012
Dear Columbia,
When I first stepped on your campus at the beginning of my sophomore year, I did not know what was in store for me. I honestly felt like Whitney Port (from "The Hills"/"The City") going to a different city, not knowing anyone, and pursuing my dreams. My three years here have been something. I’ve met people I never thought I would meet, made friends that I...
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Barbie has officially turned plastic.
The Trinidad-born, Queens-raised MC Nicki Minaj recently released her music video to “Beez In The Trap (ft. 2 Chainz),” the newest single from her newest album “Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded,” and is full-on blonde, breasty, booty and brainless.
The newest daughter to the Young Money Entertainment Cash Money Records label, which hosts...
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
My summers used to consist of packing up two enormous duffel bags and heading off to my beloved overnight camp in northern Wisconsin for two months. I was barely home before school started again in the fall. However, 4 years ago, I ended my camping career and tried out summer life at home. At first, it was rough. I longed to be with the rest of my camp friends and felt like I was missing out on...
Tuesday, May 1, 2012
Recently, I’ve been reading “Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela,” which is a phenomenal and eye-opening read. It doesn’t invoke self-pity of any kind like one might think but helps readers to dissect the root of hate, racial tensions and a life many in this generation couldn't fathom.
I am in awe of his unwavering diligence and...
Friday, April 27, 2012
What I love about going to a school like Columbia is that it’s full of dreamers that dream big. Those dreamers are also determined to make their dreams come true. Prime examples of people like this are three film students: Jessica Estelle Huggins, Cameran Battley, and Candice Majors. Huggins, Battley and Majors started a production company in the fall of 2011 called HBM (using the first...
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Though many have tried, it isn’t easy to capture the significantly vivacious and rebellious feeling of being a young adult. But Brooklyn dance-punk duo Sleigh Bells may have found the perfect formula to project the awkward-coolness that is adolescence: finding the essential flavors with their newest ear-shattering jam session, “Reign of Terror.”
The indie-rock pair’s...
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
“Where were you when the world stopped turning?” Alan Jackson’s sullen song lyrics regarding the multiple terrorist attacks that bombarded our country on September 11th, 2001 always makes me think of where I was on that horrific day.
I was a tiny fourth grader; naive and full of certainty that the world we lived in was one of good and not evil. Little did I know, on...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Hillary Clinton is clearly the *ahem* "HBIC." Mrs. Clinton refused to play the "poor wife of a man who cheated on me with his intern" role. Instead, she handled the scandal with class and is now quite literally ruling the world. As Secretary of State under President Obama’s administration, she has imposed sanctions on Iran, condoned actions of heinous leaders in...
Friday, April 20, 2012
Recently, I've been reading the latest book of the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants series. The book fast forwards ten years later in the main characters lives. As they are all in totally different places, it makes me think where I will be in ten years. What will have changed? What will still be the same? Even as a soon-to-be college graduate, questions about the future pop into my head...
