#Cally’s Corner
Cally’s Corner: Making Bank
Whether trying to graduate without student loans or just tryna fund a fun night out, we could all use some extra cash. From Kellogg studies to selling the stuff you don’t need, here’s four key ways to make money at school, and the upsides and downsides to each method. more 
Cally’s Corner: Waging the Quasi-War
They said they’d call you later, but they didn’t. They forgot, and that’s okay I guess, except this is Opposite Day and you’re actually really mad. They forgot your birthday, they texted you back after declining your call, and they flaked on coffee at Norbucks even though you totally hinted you’d had a rough day.
This means Quasi-War. more
Cally’s Golden Rules for social interaction
It’s social anxiety disguised as politeness. It’s chatty conversations with Facebook friends you never see face-to-face. It’s accidentally grabbing hands with the person next to you on Sheridan and it’s when you take a huge bite right as the waitress walks over to ask how the food is. It’s sheer and utter awkwardness, and the power and beauty of it is both awe-inspiring and mystifying. more
Cally’s Corner: Campus Crushes
Preface and full disclosure: If it was up to me, committed relationships would directly result from incorporating crushes into online Sim families. Dates would take place at Chipotle. Love interests would discover mutual and enduring obsessions with Mythbusters, Egyptology and forts. Relationship-building would in no way revolve around TKOE, texting “hey what are you up to” at ANY time, wearing high heels/binding party clothes or, in other words, being a real human being. more
Cally’s Corner: On breaking free
It started during finals week last quarter. Monday night, I got home early-ish from the gym (Okay, from the library) and decided at 8 p.m. that I was done being a real person for the rest of the night. My brain was melting and my Statistics final wasn’t for two days, so I jogged upstairs, hopped into bed and grabbed my Kindle.
On a whim, I bought The Hunger Games. more
Cally’s Corner: Get your spring time swag out
Yodelaheehoo and a ring-a-ding-ding it’s SPRING! Well, sort of. While youthful, rosy-cheeked co-eds tan on the quad, I await the vengeful Norse weather god slathered in SPF 80. We are due for a meteorological catastrophe, my friends. I feel it in my bone-house. But hey, don’t let little old me and my karmic agitation discourage you from enjoying these suspiciously, freakishly warm March and April days; in fact, for you, my little squirrels, I have compiled a list of MUST-DO NU’s for early spring. Read on and prosper! And may Thor, Odin’s son, protect you on your journeys! more
Cally’s Corner: How to stop embarrassing yourself in public
Greetings, funions. I thought long and hard and deep about what I should focus on for my very first column. It all came down to the question: What am I an expert at? And then it dawned on me. I am the best around, the top dog and the big melty cheese at embarrassing myself. I have an ill amount of street-cred in the Department of Humiliating Behavior. So I figured I could—and should—share my wisdom with you, Sir Reader of Northwestern, to keep you from disgracing yourself. Keep in mind, I have done all these don’ts and lived, so don’t feel too sad if you’re eating a bagel in class right now while simultaneously signaling your crush with jazz hands. more 
Introducing Cally’s Corner: Conversations with a Northwestern Neurotic
My name is Cally Trautwein and I’m normal most days. It’s important you know: dancey electro means a lot to me. I find inner peace whenever “The Club Can’t Handle Me” comes on. I’m into journalism, sequins, and candy. If I had starred on MTV’s “Made” I would’ve asked my life coach to turn me into a Tokyo Drift style drag racer. Sorry about it, but I’m also not sorry because I would have owned the streets. more
