To All the White Boys I’ve Ever Loved Before, Don’t get too cocky — not everything is about you. I am writing this to you because my grievances have everything and, ultimately, nothing to do with you. I mean, you’re a pretty great place to start, if anything, so I’ll give you that. There’s power […]
Casper…Is That You? (A Guide to Ghosting)
You’ve been talking to someone on Tinder that you really like for awhile. You think the conversation is going well, but suddenly the other person does not reply. A day goes by. Then two. Then three. Then a week. Then two weeks. “Did they die?” you ask yourself. Finally, you realize you’ve been ghosted. Upon […]
Astral Projections
A Look at the Stars with Muthuveera Maraimalai and Laurel Preston Comets, as you make your many orbits around the stars, trips around the sun, rounds through the sky, here’s a friendly reminder that Mercury retrograde will be ruining all of our lives soon. As such, here’s some advice curated for your sign: Mercury Retrograde: […]
Novel Ideas with Gabby Bevers
Who’s ready to get angsty and emotional? The first poem in Samantha King’s Born to Love, Cursed to Feel reads like a Cosmo horoscope — it hits home fairly hard but feels overly generalized. The entire first half of the book expresses how lonely and unwanted you can feel in relationships — you know, the […]
Merry Cruzmas!
Preparing for the Holidays in Ted’s Texas Season’s Greetings, fellow Texans! I should begin by sharing that I wanted to open this piece with “Merry Christmas!” but the PC Police at AMP forced their hippie-dippy inclusion on me with the threat of not publishing my article that, in its truest form, oozed truth and delicious […]
Shopping for Sneaker Heads
Christmas is just around the corner, which means it’s time to pay homage to Odin, the Wild Hunt, Modraniht, and the birth of Jesus Christ by giving gifts to our loved ones and being forced into awkward office Secret Santa exchanges. Sometimes, the ones we care about can be hard to shop for. Your boyfriend […]
The Third Annual Naughty or Nice List
The most wonderful time of year has come, and by that of course we mean the time for our official annual AMP Naughty or Nice lists. This year has been a wild ride from start to finish, and we’ve documented the best and the worst that 2018 has had to offer. Be sure to give […]
Popping Across the Pacific
The Rise of K-Pop in Response to the Death of American Pop As the year draws to a close, we need to address the seven-membered, brightly colored, tightly choreographed elephant in the room. That, of course, is the K-Pop group BTS, who was nigh inescapable in 2018 — appearing on Ellen and The Tonight Show […]
Quantum Disruption
There’s a war raging in Silicon Valley right now, and it’s attracting everyone from Google to IBM to Microsoft, along with a flock of ambitious new startups. Despite what you might expect, they’re not fighting over social media, mobile games, or e-commerce; they’re after something downright otherworldly: parallel universes. Despite sounding like the premise of […]
Impostor Syndrome
You are sitting in the hallway in a particularly uncomfortable office chair. The sturdiness of your business suit that has been sitting in your closet for an entire year is rough against your skin. You grip your résumé as you look around at all the people that are waiting for the same interview. They are […]
To All The Rom-Coms I’ve Loved Before
Netflix’s original romantic comedy, To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, took the internet and all of its fangirls by storm. Though clichéd in parts and still following the admittedly generic rom-com outline, the movie brings to light a message that might be harmful for future films in the genre. For those in need of […]
7 Tips for Getting the Most Out of Winter Break
You know how sometimes you feel like your break wasn’t long enough? At the end of summer and winter breaks, that feeling of regret begins to seep in. People will lie in bed the night before classes wondering what they could have done differently to be more productive and well rested. It’s horrible to feel […]
Your Ultimate Black Friday Survival Guide
Six Tips for Surviving the Night The Holidays will be here soon, and everyone is looking forward to some well deserved time off from studying, recording lectures you’ll never listen to again, and losing hours of your life on Instagram wondering how that girl from your 10 a.m. can afford to go to Reykjavík in […]
The Fetish Judge
Newly-minted Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s close associate Mark Judge has quite the YouTube history. Take a peek behind the curtain… and probably bring a towel. Though we all may have used whatever means at our disposal to block it out of our memories over the past month, Brett Kavanaugh is on the Supreme Court. […]