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This President’s day weekend went differently as planned, to say the least. Everything was seemingly normal until Saturday morning, when norovirus hit three of my roommates, one after the other. I spent the whole day traveling from apartment to apartment to escape my friends who were dropping like flies to the disease. Currently, I am spending the night in a hotel while my apartment gets disinfected. Because I’ve had more time alone than usual, I resorted to Netflix to cure my boredom. After some browsing, I decided to watch “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes”. Once I started, I couldn't stop. Embarrassingly enough I had never heard about Ted Bundy, the serial killer, and I was extremely disturbed by how he fooled so many people and was able to escape prison on two separate occasions.  The first thing that intrigued me about the documentary was how much our technology has advanced since the 1970s. Although the police sometimes had blood samples, and witnesses ...

Katherine O’Connor How to Dance Like No One’s Watching  And Know You Don’t Look Like an Idiot Everyone has that one friend that is notoriously bad at dancing. The one everyone loves to laugh at from afar when they are attempting to shimmy on the dancefloor. Well, unfortunately, I’m that friend, and chances are you are too if you’re reading this. If you're  that  friend, then you know the immediate discomfort that arises when someone suggests that everyone go dancing at a bar or club. It’s easy to say “relax”, or the cliché, “dance like no one’s watching”. But the reality is, you know some people  are watching, and it's normal to want to look good while doing it. So, from one non-dancer to another, these are the tips I’ve learned along the way that will successfully transform you from a terrible dancer into an average one (with confidence). #1 Throw out Your Preconceptions about Dance The first key to mastering dance, is knowing that you can’...

I was pleasantly surprised by Gloria Steinem’s novel, My Life on the Road . To be honest, I wasn't completely sure how moved I would be by the life of a traveling feminist (in the most general terms). I couldn't see myself being able to relate to her life in anyway, as I have had comfort in having a place to call home and I am not that passionate about politics. However, from the moment I read the first page, I knew I had greatly underestimated Steinem, both as an activist and as an inspirational writer. When I read the title of the first chapter, “My Father’s Footprints”, I knew I was going to have more in common with Steinem than previously thought. The chapter was filled with memories of her unusual childhood on the road, which had worked to shape her into the person she is today. Although she originally was embarrassed of her ‘weird’ upbringing, and longed for a less impulsive father that could settle down, she later realized how important it was in forming her charact...