“The Walking Dead” mid-season finale shocks audiences with unexpected twists

By: Katherine Summers AMC premiered the mid-season finale of the hit show “The Walking Dead,” ending with some of the most shocking events in the series yet. Longtime fans of the show may argue that this season lacked in action and general importance of the decisions the characters made. This finale made up for all of that. Without spoiling too much, the finale felt like how “The Walking Dead” used to feel, a thrilling, suspenseful show that showed how people react when faced with the end of the world. By simply looking at the explosion of Facebook statuses and surprised … Continue reading “The Walking Dead” mid-season finale shocks audiences with unexpected twists

A generation of scholars or redditors?

By: Taylor Fulkerson Over fall break, I spent my time trying to catch up on homework. The operative word here is “trying,” and I’d like to delve into what that means. Whenever I sit down to a computer, my instinct is to log in to Facebook. Frankly, I don’t know why. It is a desert of information. Occasionally there is the oasis of a nice news analysis that someone has posted, but for the most part, it is pictures I don’t care about, links to content I saw on reddit two weeks ago and those advertisements that pollute my Facebook … Continue reading A generation of scholars or redditors?