Focus

How hard is it to do one thing at a time? My theory: It's pretty hard. With cell phones and more to-dos than ever, it's easy to multitask without realizing. Think about it: are you checking your bank account with one tab and writing an essay with another? Or baking cookies while texting a friend?…

The Wind Rises: Dreams

Watching a good Ghibli movie is like getting hit by a train. Watching The Wind Rises is like falling into a sad and very beautiful dream. The Wind Rises is a semi-autobiographical movie about Jiro Hiroshiki, an engineer who made airplanes--specifically, the airplanes used to bomb Pearl Harbor and begin Japan's chapter in World War Two. The most…

Save Our Sanity: Freeing Yourself from Phone Addictions

New phones are great things. However, they come with a whole host of distractions...camera! Google! Youtube! Chief of all: social media. As an infamous procrastinator myself, I find that social media pulls my already limited concentration into a million different pieces. What should we do, then? Forswear all of it forever? With all things in…