if i were a straight 20-something male, i would be giving myself high fives all over the place.

not only is the ratio of women to men in the program something like 3:1, all the ladies are cute at the least, if not total stunners. and they're from a wide range of places - there are gorgeous women from canada (that exotic foreign land), palestine, india and ireland, just to name a few. the guys? are nice and smart. but to quote james, "the cute ones are usually gay."

another shocking insight: writing newspaper headlines is, like, totally hard. we had a two-hour project on it the other day (though part of it also involved copy editing articles), and my mind was just drawing complete blanks. at first, when i took a glance at a brief article about some chicago building possibly receiving a "chic" makeover, i was like, this is a snap! but then, as i tried to cram the relevant information in a pithy, smart manner within the confines (something like six columns, one line, 48 pt font, 45 counts per line, which is the number of counts alotted to the headline, including letters, punctuation and spaces) i slowly grew more and more despondent. by the end of the entire fucking process i was practically rolling around on the floor tearing my hair out and moaning, "Classic landmark to receive chic update....no, TOO LONG AND MUST MENTION NAME OF BUILDING....Stupid building to receive retarded makeover...sob."

so, yeah. be nice to your local headline writer. their job is harder than it looks. the exception: punny headline writers. i would say you can shoot them on sight.