Author: jgrebes

In my ongoing effort to not be unemployed anymore, and to move out of my parents’ house, I’ve been writing a lot of cover letters. I hate writing cover letters. A cover letter asks you to explain why you’re brilliant, driven, creative, and qualified for the job in a format that makes it really hard…

Pretty much all the NQR writers are graduates of Hamilton College, a small liberal arts school in The-Middle-of-Nowhere, New York. Any of us would readily say that Hamilton is a great school. It’s a NESCAC school, one of the best liberal arts colleges in the country, and we all love it. It makes me sad…

As you may have gathered from my last article about watching the debates, I find politics very entertaining. Election nights are the culmination of lengthy campaigns that seem like they started long enough ago that the bc/bce debate becomes relevant. They’re exhilarating and terrifying. Watching the election is like watching a major sporting event, only…

I’m really sad that the debates are over. I followed the same game plan for the three presidential debates and the vice presidential debate. My friend came over for a debate watching party/drinking game. We sat on a couch, multiple screens at the ready and started to watch/live tweet/be American. Guys, we all Twittered the…

The other day I was looking around the iTunes store because I actually pay for my music.  (Well, most of it anyways.) I checked out their free offerings. Every once and a while they will have a free pilot of a TV show or something available for download. I found an incredible gem. Yes, the…

Expertly dodging the deluge of questions about legalizing marijuana, the President took to Reddit yesterday for an Ask Me Anything. He did a pretty good job of it. His answers were pretty standard for the most part, but nobody really should’ve expected much more. It was a half hour on Reddit, not a tell all…

A couple weeks ago I went to a neighborhood party with my mom, mainly out of boredom and the draw of free food and beer. There were family friends there, family acquaintances, and family “I-don’t-know-who-any-of-these-people-are.” It wasn’t a bad way to spend an otherwise uneventful Saturday, and I got to play grown-up with all of…

As much as I complain about getting old, I understand that I’m pretty young in the scheme of things. Perhaps the thing that defines me as one of the young ‘uns more than anything else is this: I honestly cannot fathom a time before the Internet. I mean, I know that it hasn’t been around…

This past Sunday night, the most important event in recent space exploration took place as NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars. Curiosity’s success shows that NASA can still get stuff done, and the rover promises to reveal unprecedented information about the Red Planet and maybe even provide insights into the origins of life. The…

Graduation doesn’t really start when you get your diploma, when you’re hit in the eye by hundreds of thrown mortarboard hats, or when you get out of that hot-as-hell auditorium. Nor does it start when you’re partying the night after graduation and campus safety shows up to politely ask you to quiet down, reminding you…