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It seems like Hollywood won’t stop until it’s exploited every holiday on the western calendar. Here are some holidays I think need a little love — or a multi-million dollar, star-studded movie

From Sleepless in Seattle to Almost Famous, Hollywood has been romanticizing the journalism profession forever. Here are just a few examples.

Surround yourself with smart people. Not just GPA smart, but out-of-the-box smart. The kind of “smart” that is hard to quantify and straddles the line of creativity.

This is how YouTube works. On the surface, it is a meritocracy. But sometimes, like in any societal structure that is supposed to be meritocratic, some great things fall through the cracks and other awful things gain great success.

Politically incorrect as it may be, the author’s commitment to crafting such brilliantly terrible puns indicates a heightened awareness of the complicated situations (read: scandals) that made Diana’s death and life so intriguing.

I was recently a victim of a stupid virus that sent out emails to my entire address book. Scrolling through the emails and checking out the recipients was incredibly embarrassing – here are just a few of the people from my past who received the email.

1. Fake AP Stylebook @fakeapstylebook Journalism nerds, rejoice, there are other people out there that get your (probably bad) sense of humor! The only thing more fun than the real AP Stylebook (don’t lie, you love it) is the fake AP Stylebook. It answers all your burning style questions like grey vs. gray (“Use ‘gray’ [...]

(à la Langston Hughes’s “10 Ways to Be a Bad Writer”) By Danny Gessner 1.     Masturbate loudly and with the lights on, and with your roommate asleep in bed 2.     Clip your toenails over their pillow and under no circumstances are you to clean them up 3.     If they have food, eat it all without [...]

By Jacquie Simone If you’re a typical IC student, you probably spent the first three years of your illustrious college career ambling around the Circles or trekking down South Hill for a house party. Once you’re 21, the allure of sticky floors might begin to wane. Sure, we all enjoy the occasional sweaty, nasty evening [...]

For many American citizens, it is the norm on New Year’s Eve to go to a house party, guzzle a few glasses of champagne and watch the ball drop in Times Square on a major television network. However, for those wishing for a more untraditional celebration, there were countless bizarre ways to ring in the [...]