Performing on stage in front of hundreds of people is sure to make anyone nervous. Whether it’s Celine Dion in front of an entire stadium or an eccentric drag queen at last week’s Drag Ball, they will all tell you it takes guts to get up on that stage. There’s always that ‘What if’ voice looming: “What if I trip?” “What if I forget the words?” “What if I freeze up and forget the moves?” For the majority of performers, “freezing up” is just a metaphor for overwhelming nerves. But what if your body actually physically stopped moving?

I came to Mount Holyoke for a variety of reasons: the faculty and students I met on my visit, the beautiful campus, the variety of orgs—the usual. However, I also came for one reason that most of you probably do not share: I came to get the heck out of the South. After all, if there was one thing I could not tolerate, it was the South: the Confederate flag bumper stickers, the faux-cowboys, the fact that you actually have to search in some states to find any music on the radio besides gospel or country—you get the gist.

Dear Egg Girl, I wonder how it feels to go down in infamy—well at least at Mount Holyoke—as the girl who left broken eggs on the kitchen floor and prompted Rene Davis to close all the Golden Pear kitchens. Did you have accomplices who “egged” you not to clean up after the accident? Did you [...]

I first met Vennie Encheva during my freshman year: she was my next door neighbor in Porter. I once went downstairs to the printing room where she was writing a paper, and we have continued to have intriguing and informal conversations ever since. A world traveler from Razgrad, Bulgaria, Vennie has done more than one [...]

As a psychology major who has taken courses on culture and human development, I have spent my fair share of hours watching video footage of other cultural traditions and analyzing how their peculiarities—read, “weirdness”—impact the development of their youth. Of course, the people being videoed probably had questions about what was worth viewing; after all, [...]

I’m going to let you in on something Mount Holyoke. It’s something that I don’t know if many people know about me. I love secrets. I really, really do. I love overhearing random things said in the bathroom, I love finding old letters shoved inside of books, I love reading all of the different secret [...]

Dear Sui, As my editor, you probably have come to expect all my submissions to reach your inbox right before midnight on Saturday. Hence, my apologies for this post-Sunday-brunch article. Most editors would be harassing their columnists to keep to their deadlines but you have miraculously restrained yourself from barging my door down and knocking [...]

Note to Readers:?This is the first of several columns I’ll be writing this semester that cover some interesting topics in sports. I decided to call the column “Box Score” in line with a sports theme. The views expressed in these columns are my own opinions. It is my hope that you will enjoy reading “Box [...]

Well, Wednesday night was that time of year again: the time of year when all the concerned citizens (and all the citizens who are not that concerned but do not get digital cable) gather ‘round the television to hear the president tell us what we would already know if we occasionally walked out the front [...]

“All I ask of you is one thing: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism­—it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you’re kind, amazing things will happen.” With those classy words, Conan [...]