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Here’s how to get through a conversation about “Game of Thrones” if you don’t know the difference between your Targaryens and your Tyrells.
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Considering the chaos that comes with the holidays, everyone could use some tips to survive the food comas and family reunions that Thanksgiving brings.
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I mean, who doesn’t want to hear about how Sarah’s Tinder date was? (It went poorly, in case you were wondering.)
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We’ve all experienced the horror that is a conversation-ender, also known as a conversation deflation. You’re walking back from class with a friend, the conversation’s flowing nicely and everything seems to be going swell. Then they nonchalantly drop a phrase that makes you want to disappear into the crowd as
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I found myself on a train hurtling 38 miles away from the only place in California I’m familiar with in the pursuit of conversing with four strangers on a Monday night. As a New York City native, my instincts to evade interactions with strangers only kicked in temporarily, before being
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At a large public university such as UC Berkeley, we meet so many new people each semester that over time it can be difficult to gauge whether or not it’s appropriate to say “hi” to someone when you see them out of context. This can cause all kinds of awkward
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It’s just another day when you walk into the bathroom and feel relieved to find that you can finally brush your teeth in peace without anyone in there loudly peeing or loudly singing a Spice Girls song. And then, not even 30 seconds later, alas, someone else walks in to brush their
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This probably should have come out sooner, but, you know, we were stuck in a long conversation. Unless you are one of the loquacious members of the Clog, chances are you just learned what a conversation is from reading this. In fact, if you were to ever manage to stumble your
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Honestly, how many times do we and will we have to respond to the four W’s as a form of introduction? What are the four W’s, you wonder? Take a look: What’s your name? What’s your major? Where are you from? Where are you living? There’s nothing wrong with these four
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Sometimes relatives call and like to bludgeon you with questions in a first-degree murder-style investigation, reminding you that through all the time you’ve spent here at UC Berkeley and all the lack of accomplishment that crushingly defines you, you still have to achieve glowing grades while maintaining a stable social life.
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