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Dreamin’ big for summer 2013

By Jacklin Bolduan | Apr. 15, 2013

Well ya’ll, it looks like it’s happening. School is almost out, and once again, most of us are all but moving into the campus libraries to bang our heads against our laptops—or whatever it is we do there. As the deadlines come rolling in, some of us will graduate, while some are relieved to have made it through freshman year and some are just excited to have more free time to drink beer. As I look to my summer plans and try, as I do every year, to make this the best summer of my life, I once again find myself making plans I probably won’t keep.

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Contemplating career options, rest of life

By Jacklin Bolduan | Mar. 11, 2013

Many of us can probably sympathize with the sick feeling of death that enters our bellies when someone asks us what our plans are after we graduate.

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An obsessive fan’s take on Tegan and Sara

By Whitney Newman and Jacklin Bolduan | Feb. 25, 2013

OK, so this weekend I experienced a completely different, incredibly more acceptable and meaningful kind of fandom that has nothing to do with television. I imagine you are shocked that I have any real interests at all. You guys, I’m a real person, not a delirious crabfisher like you might have thought.

Angel Lee

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Makin’ new besties on the bus

By Kelly Kallien and Jacklin Bolduan | Feb. 11, 2013

This past weekend, I spent three glorious days in the newest, hottest vacation spot: Lansing, Mich. I was there for a conference, and oh my gosh, was it sort of fun! Conferences are fun because you get a ton of free things, like lime-green messenger bags and water bottles and T-shirts. That’s why they’re fun, and I’m sticking to that.

Angel Lee

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Making the ‘deadliest catch’

By Jacklin Bolduan | Jan. 28, 2013

Now that I’m back in the grind of the semester, I don’t have a lot of time on my hands. I mean, there’s going to class, my internship, readings and now my newest commitment, which is the most time consuming: Having the couch fused to my leg hairs as I mentally ride the waves of the Bering Sea on the deck of the Northwestern during king crab season.

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The quest for a cheap apartment

By Jacklin Bolduan | Nov. 12, 2012

While it seems like a lot of people in my grade (15th, technically) are sailing across the seas to foreign lands to delve into academic rigor and life-changing adventures through a study abroad experience, there are actually a lot of us who, apparently, are too attached to Wisconsin winters and the beautiful bruises you get from slipping on black ice to pack up and head out. It’s a lot easier to meet new friends wearing a facemask with your head down swearing profusely during blizzards than it is in a new, exciting environment.

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A 21st birthday fit for a ‘Lion King’

By Jacklin Bolduan | Oct. 29, 2012

So, my 21st birthday is coming up and after 21 years and nine months of anticipation I will now be able to stay in hotel rooms all by myself! I guess the permission from the government to purchase and consume alcoholic beverages is somewhat convenient also.

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Embracing in-yo-face campaigning

By Jacklin Bolduan | Oct. 15, 2012

OK, so I know that being a cable-less person in college may render me incapable to complain about the onslaught of political ads being thrown my way, but believe me, those people are cree-ay-tive with their marketing even without the use of TV, as many of you—OK probably all of you—know all too well.

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‘Cheers’ to the ‘Happy Days’ of TV

By Jacklin Bolduan | Oct. 2, 2012

Apparently my last column may have perhaps contained “too many” references to “old” television shows (i.e. “Roseanne,” “The Golden Girls”) and it may have made some of you question whether or not I was actually a student here or even born in your decade or something. Well, it may upset you to know that yes, I am a 20 going on 21-year-old woman AND I know the whole plot line of “Cheers” and “Frasier” AND I know that one is a spin-off of the other. Scared yet?

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Home is where the jumping bass artwork is

By Jacklin Bolduan | Sep. 17, 2012

As summer winds down and us kids get back into the swing of school and independence (a.k.a. eating cereal for dinner), let us look forward to the emotional rollercoaster that is visiting home. Whether you’re from the valleys of Utah and are the 27th love child of a man named Josiah or the grad from Laguna High who never made it to the screen of MTV’s Laguna Beach (even though you totally hooked up with Jason—what gives?), going home is a real, well, special trip.