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Shedding light on UV Tattoos
A year ago, Tom Atkin, a 25-year-old bartender in San Diego, wanted to add to his collection of ink, which already included an owl on his right bicep, an anchor on his chest, and a bouquet of roses surrounding a cross on his left forearm. Atkin walked into his usual...
Gap Year Grind
After graduating from the University of Toronto, Jasmeet Sidhu found herself worn out from the never-ending cycle of classes, summer jobs, and extracurriculars. Her goal had been to work in media but during the exhausting four-year run she became more and more unsure of her long-term goals. “I needed to...
Spending for the Experience
Most people don’t hang around the trendy coffee shop just for the skinny vanilla latte. The under-30 crowd in particular, is there for the social experience, a fact shops are starting to recognize and contribute to, with mood music, comfy couches and a no-hassle-if –you-sit-there-for-three-hours policy.
Fatkinis And The Rise Of Plus-Size
Amid the madness of Black Friday, Columbia University senior Tina Rose tried her hardest to find a pair of jeans that went up higher than her mid-thighs. She scurried through the fitting rooms of Macy’s, American Apparel and Zara, failing to find anything over a size 14. Yet this young...
Feeling Anxious? You’re Not Alone
When 22-year-old Katie needs help falling asleep, she pops in a DVD of a favorite Disney or “Harry Potter” movie, but not because there’s nothing on TV. Having suffered from anxiety since she was 5 years old, the recent college graduate finds that these familiar movies help to distract from...
The Catch-22 of Landing a Job
Like many college students Victoria Baptiste interned last summer; unlike many students she held two internships, alternating between a research internship at the NYU Law School’s Center of Human Rights and an internship at a computer software firm GCS Computers. And these were not first internships for the Princeton University...
Disillusionment Impacts Young Voters
On Election Day, many millennials will get their second chance to perform their civic duty of voting for the President of the United States. Their first opportunity, in 2008 when they helped assure the election of President Barack Obama, was a wild success in young voter enthusiasm and registration, but...
Millennials Keeping Faith
Hundreds of college students and young adults gather in a line that curves around the block in the early hours of a Sunday morning to jam out in Gramercy Theatre. The room is filled to capacity with young people and a line has already started outside for the next show....
Turn Down the Music
Wearing ruby red metallic headphones, a young man boards the uptown N train, bobbing his head up and down to the sounds of Drake’s vocal percussion. Sighs and groans spill from a few passengers who had hoped for a quiet morning ride to the city as the sounds emitting from...
Crowdfunding Revives Student Projects
When a group of NYU Tisch students decided to produce their own version of the “An Enemy of the People” last spring, the group hit a few budgetary snags. The Tisch School of the Arts was supposed to pay for part of the production and help students fundraise the rest....
