Archives for October 2014

Today in my playwriting class, we talked about some differences between plays and screenplays. Although the class is composed of mostly theater majors, being that we are in Los Angeles with a great film school right next door, most of us were more used to the structure of screenplays. Our teacher brought up a good point - we are so used to watching television and film that our … [Read more...] about The Evolution of Entertainment: Plays versus Screenplays

It is a topic that I have not thought about since high school because as a college female I don't have a dress code for class. It wasn't until I started seeing various campaigns about dress code that stated messages such as how our society could have a man walk on the moon yet we are still not letting girls wear shorts to school because boys might get "distracted". In your … [Read more...] about Decoding the Dress Code

  In September of 1993, Starbucks had two-hundred stores nationwide[1]. Currently, Starbucks has over eleven thousand stores in the United States alone[2]. Starbucks fundamentally changed how the United States treats coffee. Everyone became a gourmet coffee drinker, no longer content with brewing Folgers in the morning and throwing in some cream and sugar. Starbucks … [Read more...] about What’s Eatin’ You: Corporatizing Indie Coffee

One of the many aspects of medicine that I find fascinating is the continuous technological advancements in the field. I particularly enjoy advancements in surgical operating rooms, such as the increased use of robotic surgery to minimize invasiveness and reduce post-operation recovery time. As a neuroscience major, however, I often find myself studying the structure and … [Read more...] about Trust Me, I’m Premed: Brain-Machine Interface

America is the world’s most powerful country in the world. Its involvement in foreign policies is not only constant but also of critical importance: America’s decision-making can make or break countries, build peace or send us on the path to a world war. Despite this unrivaled level of power, regular Americans do not seem to earn such global responsibility with their level of … [Read more...] about A-broadening Your Horizons: Where Is the UK, Again?