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Category Archives: Lesson Learned

Lesson Learned: The Titanic

America owes a lot to the Titanic disaster.
The tragedy has spawned award-winning Broadway plays, X-billion-dollar-grossing feature films, perfectly average novels, and macabre enjoyment rides (”We’re dying, Dad!” they scream in excitement. The father, sticking his polo-ed chest out proud, chuckles, “That’s great, sons.”).

If that isn’t enough, people simply won’t stop talking about it. Case in [...]

A Shit-Load

A year ago, two women and a glass took the internet by storm. 
Not only did they inspire thousands of people to pick up a camera and film their own response videos, but, also, they answered a question that has plagued me since middle school:
How much, exactly, is a ’shit-load?’
The answer- one cup.

Tony Guido’s “Origin of the Jäger Bomb and the Loyalties of World War II”

Being an ambitious previous-valedictorian-soon-to-be-failure, I intern. Not the type that draws blood in the emergency room in preparation for their starting six-figures salary. The type that is paid nothing in hopes they might actually get a job that barely pays the rent.
As one of these eager interns, I find myself doing such tasks as pouring [...]