Carmelo Anthony is easily the greatest player to put on a Knicks uniform since Patrick Ewing. Last season, he led the Knicks to a 54-28 record and their first playoff series victory since 2001 (vs. the Toronto Raptors). He’s craved the bright lights and, individually, he’s lived up to the hype. Continuing with the trend, Anthony…
At 11 p.m. last night, I realized that I had not started any of my homework. I had been on my computer for hours, so I must have accomplished something, right? I read the news in a digestible format, laughed along and sympathized with “16 Things Only People With Unique Names Would Understand” (Moette Nehama…
With four fights left until his scheduled retirement, Mayweather is still eyeing bigger payouts. “Money” has been Mayweather’s motto since he separated from Bob Arum and formed his own Mayweather Promotion. Seventeen years into his career with no losses suffered, Mayweather has become skilled in entrepreneurship and psychological warfare. He dismantled Oscar De La Hoya…
This past weekend, I spent a great day in Williamsburg with my mom. Whenever I am able to come to this hipster haven, there are two locations that are always on my hit list: The Meatball Shop and Oddfellows Ice Cream Company. These places are perfect for a relatively cheap meal in an increasingly expensive…
When was the last time that you read a book—textbooks excluded—with lots of pictures in it? I bet you had to think back to elementary school. Well, my answer would be four days ago, and no, it wasn’t a children’s picture book. It was a graphic novel. A graphic novel is essentially a comic book…
When Dr. Holtzman announced that our Science and Technology seminar would run a health fair, however and for whomever we decided, our class was immediately intrigued. After much discussion, we decided it would be most fitting to run a fair for the Queens College community: our home base and place where we wanted to give…
Hot chocolate, Christmas lights, warm woolen sweaters, and roaring fires—the holiday season is invariably paired with the idea of coziness. It is the time of the year when people make every effort to be with family and friends. New York City offers a unique holiday season with its own traditions, such as the Rockefeller Christmas…
A dollar bill is crisp and thin. While its value isn’t classy whatsoever, the feeling of a bill most definitely is—at least when it is compared with a coin. The jingle of coins is mostly associated with beggars and people below the poverty line. Due to such psycho-social reasons, the switch to the dollar coin…
Macaulay’s New Media Lab director, Albie Hecht, invited the founder of Frederator Studios, Fred Seibert, and the CEO and founder of Tumblr, David Karp to speak with students at the Macaulay Honors Building on December 5. The event was coordinated by Ann Kirschner, the University Dean of Macaulay Honors College, and the New Media Lab…
Everyday I see college students taking pictures of themselves: in class, in the cafeteria, and in the library. Sometimes they smile, other times they pout, make kissy faces, or stick out their tongues like Miley Cyrus. What are these students doing? They are taking selfies, or pictures of themselves that they also photograph. This is…
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