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 …

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 …

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 Dino Husejnovic
I do not know how I survived so many years of life without an iPhone. I cannot remember how I managed to wait for an hour at the DMV, and not go crazy from being bored out of my mind. I certainly have no idea what got me through the bus ride from Goodyear to Flint Loop …

By Melissa Wright
I get really pissed off at commercials. Cue the white, clean marketing hue ala Mac. The music that makes you feel like we’re all in this together and you just donated all your life savings to charity. HSBC is the World’s Local Bank and American Runs on Duncan.
Of course now, with the recent economic meltdown, so much of …

 According to CNBC and ABC News, marijuana is the U.S.’s biggest cash crop. Growers make an estimated $35.8 billion a year in illegal sales. With that in mind, states across the country have been taking a slice of this pie by legalizing marijuana for medical purposes. The federal and state governments place taxes on the medical marijuana, meaning they make …

By Abraham C.L. Munson-Ellis
 Today, and on many, many more days, we should ponder the end of all that is known at our level of existence and the sum of all of our experiences.
 As distant descendents from the land of civilization’s birth, we have firsthand knowledge of the progress and challenges of humankind. We have witnessed the birth of children, the …