Hey, Mitt Romney. (Yeah, we remember you.) I know it is supposedly full, but maybe your binder can have room for one more woman?

Michelle Obama

EDUCATION
Princeton University
Harvard Law

EXPERIENCE
Founding Executive Director of AmeriCorp's Public Allies in Chicago
Being...

If the youth had a super PAC, what would it advocate?

Let Gays Marry!
According to a USA Today/Gallup poll, 58 percent of 18 to 29-year-olds believe that the president himself should work to legalize marriage equality. That's one percentage point off from how many Americans...

This might be the last year I'm a student at Boston University, but it's the first year that I (A) had a legal sip of beer and (B) had my face broadcast on over 750 college campuses. So bring it on, Mayans! I'm ready for the apocalypse of 2012.

When...

A couple disclaimers. Firstly, Sarah Palin is a genuinely brilliant woman who is right about a lot of things. Secondly, the issue of marriage equality is incredibly significant, but it's also a wedge issue used to divide and distract from a deteriorating empire owned by the financial industry. As with...

When Boston University senior Liz Breen got a call from the coordinator of the "BU in LA" internship program recommending she apply for a semester at CONAN on TBS, she immediately called off that night's Halloween plans. Probably because the deadline was the next day.

According to Variety, the Los...

BU is on a roll this summer. First a sophomore gets named the prettiest girl in America and now a rising senior gets named the funniest college kid in the country. While the Emerson College team won the Rooftop Comedy's National College Comedy Competition,...

March Madness has never been so funny.

Sports Illustrated once called the relationship between Boston University and Boston College the biggest rivalry in sports history. And the Battle of Commonwealth was even ranked first in College Hockey News' list of "College Hockey's Top 10 Rivalries." The...

It's a rare event to see a stage full of people in Nazi uniforms who heil Hitler several times within an hour. It's especially rare on a Bostonian college campus.

Thankfully, it wasn't a rally. It was BU On Broadway's fall semester production of Mel Brooks' The Producers at the...

Did you hear the one about the rabbi and the comedian?

On Tuesday, November 8, 2011, Sarah Silverman (best known for her character "Sarah Silverman") and her older sister Susan (a Reform rabbi and Boston University alum) walked into the hallowed halls of BU's School of Management.

The two sat...

"To walk down Boston's Commonwealth Avenue in the autumn of 1973 was to witness history unfolding. Hippies, college kids, booze heads, townies, and actual working people, blue-collar to the highest white-shoe professions, all intermingled daily. In the midst of this diversity they probably shared only one interest in common, and...

Last Thursday, a YouTube video called "Rebecca Black - Friday" had 3,000 views. On Friday, it had more than 7 million. When I passed out listening to it last night it had 9 million. As I listen to it today, it has 12 million. And tomorrow it will be so...

A girl just texted me "OMG IM TAKING A CLASS ON COLBERT." Should I take that as a booty call?

This semester, which started for us Boston University kids on January 18, lecturer and Harvard graduate Michael Rodriguez is teaching a Writing Seminar called "The Colbert Report: American Satire."

From...

No seriously, like, as a favor. As if I had asked you to get a "sandwich for me." I'm just always super tired on Tuesdays.

In the November 2010 elections, which occurred sometime around November of 2010, I entered a contest with some members of my production