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Taylor Swift’s Albums Are the Stages of a Breakup, and “Reputation” Is Stage Anger
Taylor Swift’s Albums Are the Stages of a Breakup, and “Reputation”...
If you’ve been broken up with lately, 1. I’m sorry, they’re probably a jerk, and 2. Taylor Swift has got you covered for your Break Up…
Eileen Wittig
Nov 11, 2017
My Favorite Drug, Caffeine
My Favorite Drug, Caffeine
I told my non-coffee drinking boyfriend I was going to bring caffeinated tea with me when I visited him to make up for the lack of coffee.
Eileen Wittig
Sep 29, 2017
Marketing Isn’t Evil, It Makes Things Pretty
Marketing Isn’t Evil, It Makes Things Pretty
Think about the things you keep on hand. It’s a lot. Furniture of some kind, clothes, shoes, blankets, some form of communication, some way…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 22, 2017
What Your Music Streaming Service Tells People about You
What Your Music Streaming Service Tells People about You
There are two questions that label you more harshly and permanently than any others. They are: “Apple or Android?” and, “What do you use to…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 22, 2017
BBQ Wins over Riots
BBQ Wins over Riots
With the warm weather seemingly hitting us in the South for good, protest season is upon us — there was a leisurely anti-Trump protest…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 22, 2017
The Millennial Guide to Saturday Mornings
The Millennial Guide to Saturday Mornings
Somewhere between 9am and noon, you finally give in to the sunlight that’s escaped the world outside your window and rested selfishly on…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 22, 2017
How to Cook When You’re a Busy Millennial with No Money
How to Cook When You’re a Busy Millennial with No Money
Cooking can be a scary thing. There are a lot of things to keep track of, there are sharp knives, Gordon Ramsay is in your head telling you…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 22, 2017
How to Make Your Editors Actually Like You
How to Make Your Editors Actually Like You
As a Very Professional Editor, our* job is basically to make you, the writer, not look stupid. Expectedly, there is a large range of…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 22, 2017
Be a Rebel. Read a Book.
Be a Rebel. Read a Book.
It’s Peak Reading Season: too hot to go outside, too lethargic to do much inside, no holidays coming up for a while. Polls and anecdotes…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 20, 2017
Society Will Carry On, Despite All Our Inventions
Society Will Carry On, Despite All Our Inventions
People these days, staring at their screens all day,” some grumble. “We don’t have the deep, personal relationships we used to. Everyone…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 20, 2017
Actually, Millennials Want to Work with Their Hands Again
Actually, Millennials Want to Work with Their Hands Again
The Wall Street Journal published an article the other day about how “old-fashioned” manual labor jobs are resurging among millennials…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 20, 2017
Is TSA Actually Better Now?
Is TSA Actually Better Now?
I’ve been flying pretty frequently since I was four months old. My first airport memory is from when I was about six, pre-9/11 TSA: my…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 20, 2017
Selling Cats with the Coffee
Selling Cats with the Coffee
Before you label me, I am not a crazy cat lady. I’m not even a cat lady. I tried having a cat once — that experiment lasted about a week…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 20, 2017
This Grocery Story Is *So* You
This Grocery Story Is *So* You
The problem with food is that it disappears. There’s less of it every time you eat until finally you’re hungry and there really isn’t much…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 20, 2017
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hitler Knew How Important Culture Is
F. Scott Fitzgerald and Hitler Knew How Important Culture Is
Amazon just released the first episode of its original show The Last Tycoon, based on F. Scott Fitzgerald’s unfinished book by the same…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 2, 2017
Netflix’s “Gypsy” Shows How Not to Adult
Netflix’s “Gypsy” Shows How Not to Adult
We’ve all known since we were three that we’re supposed to learn from our mistakes. But the underrated second part to that idea is that we…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 2, 2017
Learn from Uber’s Management Mistakes
Learn from Uber’s Management Mistakes
No one should be shy about the need to love entrepreneurs, startups, big ideas, wanting to make a change, and striking out into the world…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 2, 2017
Yes, I’m a Feminist. Yes, I Enjoyed “Wonder Woman”
Yes, I’m a Feminist. Yes, I Enjoyed “Wonder Woman”
I’ll be honest: I went to see Wonder Woman with zero expectations. I was aware that some extreme feminists were already angry about it…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 2, 2017
The Lazy Millennial Guide to Summer
The Lazy Millennial Guide to Summer
You’re going along, living your life, buried under blankets in your winter nest, until suddenly you realize: summer is coming. Like, next…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 2, 2017
Amazon Made a Holiday for Itself, and I Am So Glad They Did
Amazon Made a Holiday for Itself, and I Am So Glad They Did
Tuesday was the day we’d all been waiting for, our second, better Black Friday: Prime Day. The day Amazon puts limited amounts of random…
Eileen Wittig
Aug 2, 2017
How to Lazily Dig a Well in Africa
How to Lazily Dig a Well in Africa
As a 20-something coffee drinker, I decided I “needed” my own coffee mug at work. I was no longer content to use the office ones because…
Eileen Wittig
Jul 25, 2017
How to Get Culture, Lazily
How to Get Culture, Lazily
A few weeks ago, one of my coworkers invited the office at large to an orchestral concert he would be playing in. The lineup was Hindemith…
Eileen Wittig
Jul 25, 2017
The Leadership of The Crown
The Leadership of The Crown
The Crown is technically about how Elizabeth, Princess of York, became Her Majesty Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United…
Eileen Wittig
Jul 25, 2017
How to Leisure Like a Lazy Millennial
How to Leisure Like a Lazy Millennial
You’ve done it. You’ve made it through the work week, through the traffic, and you’ve made it home. You unlock your door and wonder again…
Eileen Wittig
Jul 25, 2017
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