Three School Supplies You Actually Need in University

Remember the school supply lists you got in Elementary school?

These things.

When I was a kid, we got a painstakingly detailed school supply list from approximately 1978 sent home with us each year, with instructions to purchase every single thing on it. This was an exercise in futility, of course, because by the end of each year the only school supply I'd be using was a chewed-up pencil stub I'd rescued off the hallway floor. Nevertheless, we had to make a big show of gathering up the items from the backs of closets and the front shelves of department stores. After all, if you showed up with a 4" binder instead of a 3.5" binder, you might as well have brought a skinned gopher carcass to school. The other students would gather around you with a documentary camera, playing soft Sarah MacLachlan music in the background as they pleaded for viewers to please donate, so that this unfortunate child could finally get some proper school supplies.

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How to Write the GRE Exam (And Not Die)

Last week, I wrote one of the scariest exams any undergraduate student will ever face.

This bad boy.

For those of you who didn't give up most of the freedom of your 20s in exchange for disapproving sighs from a thesis supervisor, the Graduate Record Exam is a four-hour exercise in misery that determines whether or not a particular student is clever enough to move on to graduate programs. Some graduate programs don't require this beast of an entrance exam, but since people who work in admissions departments apparently feed on human misery, the test is being expanded each year to encompass every subject you could ever hope to study at a post-undergraduate level. It's international, too, to if you think you can make a daring escape to the universities of Tanzania or Botswana, you are sadly mistaken. 

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Study Break

I write a big, scary exam on August 19th, so I'm taking these next two weeks off from blogging to study. See you on the 23rd, lovelies.

Trust me, you're not missing much.

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How to Bake a Cake With a Minivan

A few weeks ago, my boyfriend turned 24 and I wanted to bake him a cake.

Oh, no, I didn't bake this gorgeous cake. His name's not even Bailey.

My boyfriend is the Nerd King of the Super-Nerds, and I wanted to commemorate his birthday by presenting him with an edible celebration of his nerdiness. Last year, I managed to cobble together cake, Oreo crumbs and green icing into a Minecraft cube cake, and I really wanted to top myself. 

That's when I made the mistake of going on Pinterest. 

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