PrintMidterm season turns even the nicest people into haters.
1. Bed bugs: I don’t have bed bugs, but they’re all over subway ads and magazine covers, and so I’ve been thinking about them. This awful panic creeps over me whenever I wake up feeling a little itchy.
-Thomas Rhiel, editor in chief
2. Em-dash overload: Every time I try to use a semicolon, someone tries to edit it out and replace it with an em-dash instead. I don’t care if Raphael, my deputy editor for features, thinks they’re “the opiate of the masses”; semicolons rock my socks off.
-Melanie Jones, managing editor, features
3. Adam’s Peanut Butter: A failed attempt at making a childhood staple healthy. Everyone knows Skippy and Jif are superior!
-Devin Brinski, food and drink editor
4. “Where the Wild Things Are”: But really, just hipsters in general. Sometimes I think they are worse than hippies.
-Peter Labuza, film editor
5. Exclamation points: They’re too... well... exclamatory, and can’t be used justifiably in any piece of non-satirical writing. Question marks are so much more reflective of life.
–Yin Yin Lu, books editor
6. Cold weather: Rest assured, there are a million things I’m NOT into. Up there on my list: flirting with winter in the middle of October. No fair!
-Sophie Meislin, View from Here editor
7. Oversharing in classes: Was it really imperative that I know you’ve had up to 10 “doses” of MDMA in one night, guy sitting in the front of the class in Drugs and Behavior?
–Haley Vecchiarelli, senior design editor
8. The suffix “-ista”: If you want a foolproof way to make any word or phrase (fashion, style, TJ Maxx) more irritating, just add these four magic letters.
–Hillary Busis, managing editor, a&e
9. Google Wave: Somehow it’s more useless and confusing than Twitter, but the reason I really hate it is because it has become one more Web
account that I feel the urge to check constantly. And no, I don’t have any invites.
–Evan Omi, Eyesites editor
10. The “New Moon” soundtrack: I mean, yes, I realize this makes me sound pretentious, and yes, I realize the bands need to make money, and yes, it’s introducing my sister to some decent music, but still it’s “New Moon.” Can’t Bon Iver and St. Vincent find other ways to collaborate?
–Jia Ahmad, Ideas editor