If my time in Detroit has taught me one thing, it’s that there are actually two Detroits. There’s the downtown Detroit, the one where things always look on the up and up wherever you look. Buildings are being bought, sold and given new life on a seemingly daily basis. […]
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Life’s struggles can be overcome
Motivation, inspiration and self empowerment are fundamentally essential to one’s success. Life presents many struggles in the wake of our existence. My oppositions, burdens and overall attitude and perspective on life are what drove me towards my failures and success. “He who says he can and he who says he […]
Authentically cliched
I am a walking contradiction. Maybe not even a contradiction; just an outright lie. I say that I’m a writer, but my 10,000 hours and Malcolm Gladwell approval are still a lifetime away. I say that I could be a journalist, yet here I am writing a column on a […]
Senior Wisdom: Learn from Ferris
Dear freshmen, There’s a great quote by Ferris Bueller in the 1986 hit “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” The same could be said about your time at the University of Detroit Mercy. […]
No hidden goals in seeking quotes
ldquo;Hello! Do you mind if I ask you a couple questions? I am a writer for The Varsity News.” “Umm… No, thanks.” Ah, the very answer no reporter ever wants to hear: “no.” More often than not, I find myself stuck in a situation where I need to get interviews […]
Four years at UDM brought more than expected
This is the end of the road. And I can honestly say that I’ve done everything I ever wanted to and even more in my nearly four full years as an undergraduate student at UDM. I became the host of my own sports talkshow, rose to sports editor of the […]
Fix lights, roads for better impression
The University of Detroit Mercy’s McNichols campus is a gated university. There’s no getting around that. So what happens when the traffic lights go out on McNichols? Well, it’s not fun. As a commuter student, the past month or so has been frustrating when I look down McNichols off Livernois […]
Facts about core
Many thanks to The Varsity News for bringing the important matter of core curriculum revision to the attention of UDM students (“Proposed change to core curriculum divides faculty,” March 25). I want to point out that in this article, proponents do not in any way dispute the two facts underlying […]
So why bother traveling?
So why even bother? If the flights are long and the food is weird and the smog is slowly killing us all, what is the point of traveling? This is ultimately a question that we can only answer for ourselves, but since I am lucky enough to have my thoughts […]
Endings hardest part in life and writing
A few weeks before PTV, I received an email asking if I would be interested in writing a column from the perspective of an incoming freshman. If I didn’t say yes, I wouldn’t be writing this right now. Now I have been procrastinating writing my last column for The VN, […]
