Tyler Vendetti

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  • October 26, 2013
    Out of the 5 classes I am taking this semester, 4 of them are related to film or media, meaning I spend the majority of my college life watching old Westerns or technofuturist...
  • October 21, 2013
    Long words are like superpowers in that they can be used for good or for evil. If you walk into a college class functioning on three hours of sleep and your professor begins...
  • September 20, 2013
    Apart from inspiring a slew of deranged Halloween costumes, Donnie Darko also offers some very valuable lessons about literature. No, I’m not talking about Grandma...
  • August 31, 2013
    If Miley Cyrus has taught us anything, it’s that we can dance our way into the Oxford Dictionary if we try hard enough. This week, the wordsmiths at Britain’s Oxford...
  • August 16, 2013
    Bros are a complex breed of human. Defined by UrbanDictionary as “partying males who… talk about nothing but chicks and beer, drive a jacked up truck that’s...
  • August 15, 2013
    Two weeks ago, I wrote an article titled 10 Words You’ve Probably Been Misusing that a very surprising number of you seemed to enjoy. Because you can only write so much in an...
  • August 1, 2013
    Reading a book from the 18th or 19th century is kind of like reading a handwritten, entirely cursive note from your grandmother in that, unless you have experience with such...
  • July 25, 2013
    There are so many words in the English language that it’s not surprising that the definitions for some of them have gotten mixed up over the years. It’s possible that...