Guest Column: Bacteria: More than your average illness, infection
Sep. 20, 2011What comes to mind when you think about bacteria?
What comes to mind when you think about bacteria?
I would call myself an “eclectic” lover of television. I enjoy literally any show that can make me laugh, cry or just question my sanity. Examples include: Hoarding: Buried Alive, Hillbilly Hand Fishin’, My Strange Addiction, Family Guy and Man vs. Wild.
Starstruck.
A year ago, storms whipped through Athens and most of Central and Southeast Ohio. Damage was spread far and wide, and Athens was not immune.
Theoretically, we could go an entire day without verbalizing a single word and still be in constant contact with whomever we please (as long as they’re living, we haven’t crossed that barrier yet).
During the past few weeks, America was morosely aware of the approaching anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
This summer was an amusing summer. Two of my dearest relatives came to visit me — my grandmother and my mother.
Ka-ching! I wish I could cash in gossip.
Let’s pretend for a moment.
Journalism is about hooking the audience. The more chilling, heart-wrenching and moving a story, the better it is.
I don’t claim to know any more than others about the surprising and often disconcerting speed bumps that life so graciously provides us, but I do seem to struggle with quite a few of them.
Ten years ago, must of us were sitting in a middle-school classroom when two planes crashed into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon, and another in a field near Shanksville, Pa.
It was first period, and I was sitting in Ms. Ratigan’s history class when the first plane hit the World Trade Center.
There is one concept that infiltrated our summer: the debt-ceiling crisis.
In the hustle and bustle to put out our first paper of the year, we overlooked some important news.
I am an international student from Beijing.
The summer was a bout of sleep, work and episodes of Pretty Little Liars and The Real Housewives of both New Jersey and New York.
Earlier today, social media were buzzing with the news that, after years of couch-burning, beer-guzzling and Halloween-hosting, Ohio University has claimed the top spot in the Princeton Review's "Top Party School" rankings.
If you’re reading this during your freshman orientation, I envy you.