For a moment, imagine yourself wearing a diaper and crawling around the kitchen floor while trying to pick up a bug with your pinkie. This is how your parents see you.

Unfortunately, altering this mindset is not easy. Parents tend to operate on a point system. What this means is that for every responsible thing you do, you get 1 point, but for every bad thing you do, you lose five points.

Your goal is to conduct …

With practice, you can make wasting time a productive art form. Others may scoff or not exactly see the value in what you are doing, but if you are going to do things for leisure you may as well get the most out of your time.

(It’s also important to learn to remove as many minor inconveniences from your life as possible.)

I am a recovering video game addict. I used to play Everquest, Dark Age of Camelot, Dungeons and Dragons Online, …

For a bit of fun, and to correlate with my previous post about nightclubs, I decided to see how much difficulty Vista would have interpreting me as I rapped (via a lyric sheet) “Crank Dat Soulja Boi”, a mainstay in the ring-tone market.

The lyrics are completely nonsensical, so Vista had quite a time with it. I only did the first part for both your sake and mine.

Sosa bluff in this whole
Once the cranky
As new role
Watch me kind a soldier board
The superman the whole
And watch me …

Try and follow me on this one. Your goal this week is to work very hard so that by Saturday night you are ready for a much-needed break. As opposed to an evening of thoughtful discussion or a pleasant late-night dinner with the family, you decide that a much better way to spend your weekend is at a nightclub.

The goal? Imbibe so much expensive poison that your body doesn’t realize how bad a time you are having. Your secondary goal is …

The second half of a [man]’s life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half.
Fyodor Dostoevsky (1821 – 1881)

Quit doing things like you are dumb, because you aren’t. The foundation of a happy adult life is built on good habits. Many of the good habits you develop during your school years will stick for the rest of your life.

(When you finish this article, if you are up …

This is short and sweet. Learn from my mistakes.

Loaned Money to Friends

There is little more dangerous to a friendship than introducing obligation of any kind. Of all the people to whom I have loaned money in college, only one has willingly given it back. I was able to recuperate the cash from another guy because he was drunk and left his wallet laying around.

Gave Too Many Second Chances

If somebody does you wrong, by all means give them a second chance, but …

Sorry this one took so long, I’ve been very busy lately.

You and I both have heard that life isn’t fair since we were kids. It started with a simple “…but Billy’s mommy got him the toy, it isn’t fair” but then progressed to “…but I’m 17 years old! Billy’s mom let’s HIM stay out after midnight. It isn’t fair!”

The reply? “Too bad, life’s not fair.” You’ll encounter this same statement the rest of your life, so I think it is worth spending some time examining exactly why life isn’t fair.

Let’s start off with you being brought into this world. The …

There is a big difference in filling in a section on Myspace and writing an essay. If you approach tests with a lack of organization and depth, you won’t get comments. You’ll be punished.

I am going to cover just a small part of improving your writing skills here. In order to completely overhaul your writing, you need to do some heavy reading; I’ll get to that later.

Know what most employers say they want more than anything? Sure, a covert affair with somebody beautiful is up there, but when it comes to who they want to hire, a person with knock-’em-dead …

I hate typing on my laptop keyboard. After 1-2 hours, I feel like my wrists are going to fall off. I got a headset in the mail today, so I decided to try out Vista’s built-in voice recognition.

I assumed that since it was 2008 this technology would be good enough to allow me to say what I wanted one time. I was horribly wrong. Take a look at what happened when I read Which Major Will Make Me RICH?

Heart can’t say for college students …

NOTE: Search elsewhere if you are looking for advice on how to find a new roommate.

My best friend and I were roommates the first semester of college. Beforehand, we thought that we knew everything about each other. Unfortunately, living with somebody else for the first time is kind of like a new marriage – the honeymoon is interesting, but after that things go a bit sour.

When you live with your best friend, it is honestly much more difficult than a stranger. (When you have a fight with your best friend who do you bitch to, your Mom?) Since you are …