Earlier this April, the University of Buffalo’s Student Association Treasurer Sikander Khan and Vice President Meghan McMonagle signed a $300,000 contract for a questionable company to make a mobile app for them.

Greece will default.

As much as it pains me to take such a negative view on my adoptive country, I am not the first person to make this prediction, nor will I be the last.

Ten months, 6,000 deaths, 15,000 wounded, 80,000 detained, and one dictator still in power.

Just recently, I read a piece from FOX News regarding the current situation of young adults in the U.S. and of the future with which we are entrusted. There are two firsts here: One, I read a FOX News article in its entirety without becoming nauseated. Two, I agreed with it.

Over the past week, I have heard scores of complaints from fellow students regarding the new registration system. I am sure that everyone who reads this paper knows exactly what I'm talking about: too many students, not enough seats, not enough class sections and the occasional technical glitch that often spells doom to a student's planned schedule.

In the '50s, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, under the leadership of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., waged war on suspected communists in America. In his zeal to uncover those "commies" who allegedly subverted quintessential American ideals, McCarthy destroyed the lives and careers of thousands of federal employees.

There's a reason why I love traveling – you get to try all the awesome cultural food, you get to see history unfold before your eyes, you get to immerse yourself in the language and the music and the riots … Wait a minute, did I just say "riots?"