Recently, I finally pushed past my fear of making purchases greater than a month’s rent and registered for this year’s Association of American Geographers (AAG) conference in…
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I’ve never read Moby-Dick. Yes. I’m an English major, and I haven’t read it. It wasn’t assigned in high school, and the quarter system here at DePaul…
On Thursday night I attended a lecture series at Saint Xavier University. The guest lecturer was Robert Gibbs, the former press secretary for President Obama. The talk…
Note: The writer apologizes for the cheesiness of this post; it could not be helped. The United States has failed in educating much of its population. In…
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To Tag, or Not to Tag
There has been a great evolution in my mind concerning the concept of graffiti. When young, I associated it with a disrespectful ugliness that surfaced on trips…
Some have appropriated unto the process of writing a somewhat romantic picture. We imagine our favorite writers hunched over desks, grumbling to themselves through sips of whiskey…
When you’re running short of ideas for your writing, there are a few methods via which you can try to get over the proverbial block that sits…
Can you count on one hand the number of people outside of school who have read your work? This is a shame. You may be thinking, “talk…
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Sustainable Scrawling
For those who don’t know, Scrawl–the UCWbL’s radio show–is live every Friday at 11am on Radio DePaul. When you’re told to listen to a writing center’s radio…
Question: I am writing a journal for one of my classes. Normally when I write a journal I write as if I am speaking out loud or…