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College Education for Sale: CHEAP!!!
Today is the last normal Monday of the school year, which means also that it is the last worst day of the school year. For some of you, this is the last normal Monday of school for good.
Have you gotten everything out this year that you wanted? Did you get all [...]

The Overheard at Appalachian

The Overheard at Appalachian’s Greatest Hits
It’s been a good run; overhearing people’s conversations for the past year has amused me to no end and, hopefully, some other people got a kick out of it too. In honor of all the ridiculous things I’ve heard this year, I’ve chosen to reprint some of my favorites in [...]

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The End of the World
I still live on campus, so I am cursed to wander Boone on foot.
Because I am lazy, places like Cook Out and Taco Bell are completely out of the question, leaving King Street as the last remaining stronghold of off-campus foodstuff.
Imagine the horror I felt when I found that Daylight Donuts [...]

Overheard at Appalachian

Oh, crunch time again; the library, coffee shops, and most dormitory hallways are filled with screams of frustration, sighs of longing (on days when it is sunny, as opposed to snowing), and insane laughter at things that, with any normal amount of sleep, would not be that funny.
So, yes, ’tis the season for papers and [...]

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A Great Thing Happening on the Mountain

Recently, an enigmatic and mysterious organization on campus, calling itself “SGA,” sent out a call to arms concerning our bell tower over Facebook.
The group they started, entitled “Take back our BELL TOWER!” is interested in expelling large amounts of pent-up school spirit through the use of millions of golden [...]

Overheard at Appalachian

I’m sure that people think I probably make some of this stuff up. Especially today, you will probably be skeptical as to whether or not I could really overhear people talking about this sort of thing in polite society. (well, semi-polite. It is college, after all.)
However, I assure you, I do not make anything up. [...]

Overheard at Appalachian

Listening is an underappreciated skill.
Even I, who make a blog entry out of it, don’t always really pay attention to what I hear.
However, sometimes people say things that make you sit up and listen.
This week, I heard someone talking about a friend who had recently, unexpectedly died. I didn’t know how to react – I [...]

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Spring Break
I hate Spring.
It is paradoxical that such a so-called pretty time of the year is so filled with horror, hatred, and other assorted ire, but what are you going to do?
All of the birth, rebirth, and other forms of nativity that occur during the spring months just as easily could have taken place [...]

Overheard at Appalachian

I often wonder what I would do if, in the course of ‘overhearing’ things, I was to actually hear something important.
Something like a government secret, or a dramatic murder, or a confession to a secret passion for Elton John.
However, so far, I have mostly overheard people talking about their classes, describing their locations to friends [...]

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Playing Through Pain

It’s gotten to that point in the year where school morale is akin to that of a funeral.
Main reason: football season ended like four months ago.
It doesn’t help, though, to turn on the TV and watch March Madness unfurl before us.
There are schools that no one but the team itself has heard of, [...]