Samantha Shadrow

Former college students seem to forget the daily grind of university life — the essays and exams and expectations set by you and others.

Even though there are supposedly tens of thousands of us undergrads, I run into the same four people every time I step on campus.

At each of the colleges I attended, I learned how the gender binary is used to dole out reward and punishment, employed to justify discrimination.

Like Harvard, the UC Berkeley administrators ought to consider abolishing sororities and fraternities once and for all.

Still, there are a lot of heroes and antiheroes to follow in the final season of "Game of Thrones." The irony? In a show where supposedly men rule and women marry rulers, season seven looks like it’s going to be a battle of the women. Who are you rooting for?

News stories, movies, television shows and anecdotal evidence paint a picture of college that distorts the reality of the ebb and flow of semesters.

I like the anonymity of city living, the feeling that I could stay holed up in my apartment or walk six miles throughout the city.

I feel so sentimental about Chicago because my time in that city formed who I am and who I hope to become.