Even in the 1980’s, college was not cheap. I relied on TAP and Pell Grants, as well as a partial scholarship from Hamilton College, just to make it through four and a half years of college life. I say “and a half years” because I spent a summer as a pre-freshman in Hamilton’s Higher Education…
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If there’s a fanbase, there’s an asshole.
As a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, I’ve followed the Black and Gold through many seasons of ups and downs. And there are teams the Steelers play for whom I have great disdain. New England, for one. Denver brings up a bad memory of the only decent touchdown pass Tim Tebow ever threw in his life. Jacksonville…
Read MoreHow I Almost Killed the Smith-Corona College Typing Cartel
For this post, we have to step into the WABAC machine and travel back to the early 1980’s. I was a student at Hamilton College, one of those “Little Ivies” tucked away in the bucolic farmlands of central New York. Back in those days, you were expected to provide fully-typed term papers to your professors.…
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Chuck The Writer 