Generation Magazine

By Ren LaForme
This is where I’m supposed to write a thoughtful, melancholy editor’s letter about graduating, and how I’m going to miss my friends and all of the wonderful teachers I’ve had in the past five years—all before gracefully bowing out with my diploma. I could recall the times I rode the bus home from South Campus drunk, the long …

By Melissa Wright
I pick up my printouts prior to a meeting at work this past week. Oh man—15 pages each. What a jerk. I bring them into the meeting with my colleague, who will remain anonymous (in terms of industry importance—think  Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada”).
I hand her copy to her. “I feel guilty printing these out. At …

By Josh Q. Newman
When I first added my middle initial to my pen name a year or two ago—the infamous Q—I knew I was making a big decision. “What’s in a name?” Shakespeare wrote. “That which we call a rose / By any other name would smell as sweet.” I didn’t quite know what was in a name, but I …

By Kathryn Przybyla
I wouldn’t call myself a hick. I grew up right here in Amherst, N.Y.—a place that isn’t really what I would consider the boonies. But for some reason, I have a thing for the country lifestyle.
After coming across the Kenny Chesney song “Big Star” in middle school, there was no turning back. Country rock with a little southern …

By Katie Padowski
I think we can all agree on one thing—we know we need to be healthier. We all make grand plans to eat better. But the vast majority of us never go though with it.
Countless New Year’s resolutions to maintain healthy lifestyles die slow, painful deaths within the first week. New diets crop up almost daily, promising that …

Students these days are barking up the wrong tree. I recently asked a strapping young bookworm about his opinion on the budget cuts. His mouth closed tighter than Fort Knox and his faced turned as white as snow. You could hear a pin drop in the room. He changed the subject faster than greased lightning.
“I don’t know. But Spring Fest …

Q: I don’t have any sense of style. My T-shirts and camouflage pants aren’t getting me anywhere with the ladies. I’m also a Putnam’s employee, so I’m poor. How can I refresh my style without breaking the bank?

KP: It must be difficult to look hot while rocking a Putnam’s uniform for the majority of the week, but there are …

By Josh Q. Newman
Watching my second-to-least favorite broadcast news host, Bill O’Reilly, is a bit more than unpleasant because, if anything, his terse interjections and incorrigible manner go against how I think a journalist should conduct himself. Yet watching him interview my very least favorite, or I should say most loathed, “journalist” Jon Stewart last month reaffirmed my long-held belief …

By Keeley Sheehan
I remember when I was just knee high to a grasshopper, sitting cross-legged on an elementary school cafeteria floor, listening to another group of little chorus kids sing a cute little chorus kid song. “Don’t throw your junk in my backyard, my backyard’s full.” They sang with vigor, their tiny bowl cut and mop topped heads bobbing up …

The Student Association debates included a little too much mudslinging. Is this a sign of passion or simply American politics as usual?
By Ren LaForme
The election might only be for undergraduates, but anyone who appreciates good entertainment should have stopped by the Student Union Theater on March 18 for the Student Association debates. It was like watching the Democratic Socialists of …

By Jordan Brown
There are common sayings that dogs and their owners start to look alike and maybe even act alike, that husbands and wives start to become the same person. This social osmosis of surrounding yourself with stuff that you oddly become was always confusing to me. It didn’t make any sense. Things don’t just start looking like other things… …

By Drew Brigham
The editor in chief of this fine publication gave me half of a page of this periodical to write about whatever I desired. After weeks and weeks of searching for a topic to write about I finally came up with an idea. An idea so bold, so extravagant, to even speak its name would certainly provoke deep, dark …