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Eagle Rants: December 18-24, 2012

[Editor's Note: Merry Christmas, I am Santa.]

• Feeling extremely pissed and discouraged, and now I'm going to bed early. F*** you life, you and I will go another round tomorrow.

• you're probably thinking exacerbate, it means to get worse!

• I'm the one who ranted about everything being "all in place," and I cannot remember what I was talking about. I might have been drunk.

• I'm a woman on Reddit! A gay one, but still...

• So many people at AU have white-guilt. I'm looking at you SWA.

• That awkward moment where you can barely focus during an interview because the person interviewing you is one of the most breathtakingly charming and attractive people you've ever met. Honestly can't stop thinking about them.

• I left for break with like four crushes that I can't help but hope are online everytime I check Facebook. I'm loving it thought its a great distraction and I can't wait to be back :)

• When drunk words become too much of sober thoughts...

• I can't tell if I starve myself, or I actually have no appetite.

• @"I haven't had a crush or like anyone in over 1 1/2 years" I haven't like anyone in 4 years. That's not sad, that just means you have other priorities.....and you don't have to feel guilty when you go to parties

• It's not rape if you say "SURPRISE."

• Home for the holidays (in the boondocks) and the nearest guy on grindr is 56 years old and 7 miles away......

• @person who kissed his professor, you sir are an idiot of the highest order.

• @ "My entire life, I thought exasperate and exasberate were different words" Exasperate is a word meaning "to enrage, to cause irritation or annoyance to". Exasberate is not a word. The word you're thinking of is "exacerbate" meaning "to make more violent, bitter, or severe."

• TRU CONFESSIONS: I scroll up on a browser window before closing the tab.

• do any attractive girls go for nerdy guys?

• 50 shades of chocolate...so so diverse lol

• @I think that people have made the idea of privilege out to be bigger than it is, but denying that white privilege or other forms of privilege exists in one form or another is just dumb. It has been made too big, because there are other privileges too. There's no white history month, financial aid discriminates against Caucasians for lack of 'diversity' and affirmative action doesn't always help everybody. If we want to stop discriminating on the basis of race and really push for equality, then lets stop discriminating on the basis of race.

• I have The Hobbit, The Dark Knight Rises and a whole host of movies to watch. Which hot sexy single ladies wanna get drunk, watch movies, and have lots of sex this break? And by "sex" I mean me putting my arm around you and you squirming away because you just wanna stay friends.

• @"I’m usually an optimist, but I have to say that I’m left with absolutely no faith in AU’s evaluation system, because I truly deserved to fail at least two classes, not set an all-time high GPA." You. Are. An. Idiot.

• @ "You were coached on how to play the college admissions game." Or you had other people do the work and now you've flunked out of Harvard because you don't know that numbers are in order.

• My peanus has never been kissed. Do you vvant to kiss my peanus with your mouth?

• @caucasian club: 50 shades of vanilla. ~so diverse. Because the black student alliance '50 shades of chocolate' is so much more diverse. Give me a break

• I'm up at 5am for no reason. I'm home and feel alone and hate being here. I just want to go back to AU.

• I want this to work out so badly, but I don't know how to make sure that it does.

• you don't have to be lonely when you're alone

• I just found out that a good friend of mine I had lost touch with after graduating in '11 passed away in July. I don't know what to do. Is it too late to mourn?

• Another beautiful day of, you know, questioning my life choices, and stuff. What am I doing with my life? Where is it going? Why am I not planning on doing anything that I would consider especially meaningful? Oh, yeah--because I'm too chickensh*t to do it.

• it's actually "exasperate" and "exacerbate." exasperate does refer to people. "exasperated" is easily interchangeable with "fed up," for example. exacerbate: to make something (a problem, bad feeling, situation) worse than it already is, ie, "many consider gentrification to only exacerbate the poverty problem in the united states, rather than improve it." you weren't totally wrong your whole life or anything, just a little off the mark. :)

• Period poops are hitler did nothing wrong

• I'm scared I'm going to kill myself over break. Trying to hold on but the gnawing pain in my heart won't go away. Help?

• Kissing is a more a means of expression than an experience to me. Its over too fast to be an experience I think, but it communicates a lot.

• Imma let u finish, but Dr. Reed is the worst research professor of all time!

• Ban all guns except bolt action rifles and pump action shotguns. NOW.

• I kind of wanna see this poop concoction

• That porn club sounds pretty intense; I'd come (pun intended)

• i was reading the au magazine and it said that in 2007 we had discrete condom dispensers installed in our dorms...... do they still exist?

• Motivation level plummeting, likely to remain low.

• last one there's a penis pump

• My brother just came upstairs and asked if anyone was taking parts of the wall away, and whether any of my sisters friends have been doing work on the house. I said no to both, obviously, and then he went back to the basement again. I literally feel sick to my stomach.

• If I ever learned anything from my brother, it's that you have to be loyal to your family. That was lesson one, and it doesn't mean helping them out when they're alright on their own. It means supporting them when they're at their worst. I would rather be literally anywhere else than here, but here is exactly where I need to be right now.

• Oh hi, female redditor here. If you think reddit is rampantly mysoginistic maybe you need a better sense of humor. Because most of it is really f*ing hilarious.

• My boyfriend gave me a wonderful present! His cold :/

• I'm in a relationship, but I say I'm single on okcupid. This is because my bf recently informed me that our relationship is now an open relationship (for him, not for me). It was either that or dumping me. I love him, but I want to see what else is out there. How terrible is it for me to just pretend I'm single on okcupid? Does anyone else do this or care to comment? I don't want to lead guys on, but I also don't want to scare away potential suitors. Help?

• Why is my step mom such a crazy *****?

• My mom is buying my 12 year old brother a gun for Christmas. Wtf

• Protesting for life! I'm all about protesting anything, just as long as I get to yell and stuff

• WAIT. THERE ARE SEXY FEMALE RUSSIAN PROFESSORS HERE?! This changes *everything*!! I've always wanted to get with a Russian woman, they're so beautiful!

• WHY IS EVERY HARDCORE LIBERTARIAN I MEET SO PERSONALLY IMMORAL? No, scratch that, AMORAL. Seriously. The behavior I've seen makes progressives look principled in their private lives! Shape up, people! No one of real virtue or deep value will join your movement if you're seen as a bunch of pot-smoking, sloppy hedonists!

• Nothing like getting drunken marriage proposals over Facebook chat. Meeeerrrrry Christmas to me...

• I think i just made a working bowl out of a walnut shell.

• It's 1:07am and I'm in the ER where I'm waiting for my brother to detox. There's live music across the street and a ton of college kids having fun. He told me "sorry for the ruckus" as we were getting him into the car to come to the hospital. Don't worry bro, I'm made for ruckus. I'd rather be here with you than out there with them.

• I'm feeling sick, so now I'm going to go the line for Santa Clause at the mall and spread as many germs as possible. &@&# everyone up real bad before Christmas.

• realtalk: The Dark Knight Rises is the X-Men: The Last Stand of the Nolan Batman movies. As in, it's terrible.

• Why can I only talk to people when I'm drunk?

• Sorry, but I actually kind of hate christmas. It's such a waste of money, and we just buy things we don't actually need and I don't get it. I'm so f***ing sick of it.

• How do guys act towards their girlfriends when they are about to dump them? My bf is acting very cold towards me recently. It could be because of financial stress he is under. He never initiates sex. Help?

• I'm scared I'm going to overdose and no one will even care. Can't stop now.

• Staying on campus over break. The janitor just offered me a blanket to sleep on the couch. The janitor loves me more than my family. FML


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