I’m not sure how many of you are familiar with the 50 year old BBC show Doctor Who, but I have watched every single episode and special since it’s revival in 2005. The Doctor himself has been played by a slew of different actors and has always had a (usually female) companion by his side. […]

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how our means of communicating with one another are changing drastically. And what sort of consequences come from this transitionary phase of communication? What immediately comes to mind is the movie Catfish, and the subsequent MTV reality show of the same name. For those of you not familiar with […]

It’s that time of the semester! Time to buckle down, put the nose to the grindstone, and all the other awful sounding cliches that indicate the next month of my life will be miserable. With impending final papers, presentations, and projects  I’ve been doing a bit of light reading for one of these papers I […]

Although this topic has been extensively covered in the media recently, I feel intensely aware of the Steubenville rape case that has been a hot topic on the news. Whether it’s because I am a student at St. Edward’s, and our school likes to think that they are teaching us to become aware of and […]

  Lately, social media and its benefits and costs have been on my mind. This most likely has something to do with the fact that I am a communication major and right now, social media is THE big thing in the realm of communication. However, it seems more at the forefront of my mind than […]

As a college kid/waitress who is majoring in Communication and barely scraping by, I found my interest piqued by a recent news story about the now infamous Chelsea Welch. For any of you not familiar with the Welch story the gist of what happened is this: A waitress at an Applebee’s in St. Louis, Missouri […]