There's nothing like home for the holidays! While I love seeing my family and eating some delicious turkey together, traveling during the last month and a half of the year can be a bit stressful. The airports and packed, and the roads are even more packed. I find road trips a lot more stressful than going to the airport. This year, I had a harrowing road trip experience that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. The night before me and my group of friends were supposed to drive two states over, th…

Time to turn down the radio so I can see better...

Say no to cars

Drivers, pay attention

I understand the skeptics of the hottest new social media phenomenon BeReal . After all, we are constantly bombarded with companies wanting us to just download one more app. Sure, there might not be as many hot new social media platforms coming out every year as there were in the 2010s, but they do keep on coming. At this point in my life, I refuse to engage with the Tumblr app any longer. It was too much in 2013 when the triple combo of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram were at their peak and a…

Being obsessed with your car is a hobby I can respect. It's objectively way cooler than collecting meaningless objects or mindlessly watching something. I may not own a car because I'm literally addicted to taking the train and the bus, but in my heart of hearts, I can't truly be a hater of dudes who just love their cars. I feel like there are two kinds of transportation hobbyist guys who are constantly at odds with each other online: the car guys and the urbanist public transit guys. Urbanists…

Why do the suburbs prioritize cars over actual people?

Landlords : you can't live with them and I wish we could live without them, but most of us can't. I'm lucky that I haven't had any horrible landlord experiences yet, but I'm sure one is on the horizon. From the horror stories I've heard, I'm confident that at least 50% of landlords are fully incompetent at their jobs, and that honestly sounds like a generous estimate. In the tradition of horrible landlord stories, Buzzfeed writer Tim Unkenholz shared a painfully hilarious exchange he had with h…

Throughout my college experience, I had one car-obsessed friend who was the light of my life. His name is Yuvraj, and there is nothing he loves more than his vehicles. He took people to go racing with him, always drove people in our friend group to events, and made his hobby fun for others. It's rare for a grad student to tell you about his niche hobby and not be extremely annoyed by it. Yuvraj was the rare exception to this rule. In the three years I've known him, his love of cars never ceased…

Next level

Who needs a mechanic

As humans we are constantly being told what is bad for us. Don't drink this. Don't eat that. We all know that smoking causes lung cancer, and that fatty and processed foods are nearly poisonous to your body. Drugs? Fuhgeddabout it. We talk a lot less about the stuff that seems completely harmless but could actually really mess us up. Redditor u/Sealedbox recently asked the r/AskReddit community to share situations, objects - and even animals - that fall into this category. They came through wit…

Get wet.

It must be a Lightning McQueef model or a Ford Flatulence…

She just watched helplessly while dirty soapy water filled her car.

A trip to the mechanic can be full of surprises.