… your allergies are slowly killing you. Now where is that handy Bath and Body Works hand sanitizer? … you have begun to plan out your life for the next few years #RegistrationProbz … upon planning out your life, you have realized how quickly time flies. Timeflies had it right… Never Grow Up. … you found out [...]

Caitlin Scott and Perri Mayer … you will be dying Easter eggs this weekend. Time to put that Pinterest board to use! … you cannot wait to finally see Leo in all his glory on the big screen. Live under a rock and haven’t seen the redone trailer?! … you voted for student government elections! As [...]

Caitlin Scott and Perri Mayer … you’ve been seriously struggling to get back into work mode since Spring Break. Also, it doesn’t help that this warm weather is letting us dress like we’re still in Florida. … you’re proud of our basketball team for making it to the big one this year: the NIT. GO [...]

Our very own Zach Bingham (editor of The Hook Up music section!) explains the importance of latte art.  In order to create art, playing with your food is sometimes necessary. Take for example a standard latte. You might notice that the barista has topped yours with an intricate design resembling a fern. Or, already acustomed to the art provided [...]

Spring Break is only days away (thank God), but is it really that exciting? If you’re like me and will be forced to travel back home where the snow might be even more abundant, or have to stay back in Iowa City, then what you have to look forward to is a nice long week [...]

As I type this, I am coming down from one of the more ridiculous nights I’ve had in Iowa City. After I woke this morning, (and by “woke” I mean got off the fouton I had been laying awake on for hours) I started reading through my slough of drunk texts. I realized that I had [...]

Early Onset Paranoia View Volume 1 here    “Fuck it.” That’s tonight’s theme, ladies and gentlemen. You just don’t know it yet. Last night, during our first all-nighter, we got nothing done. We stayed up til silly o’ clock looking at pictures of cats and pointless memes, only to bear witness to the crack of [...]

In a time when (for God only knows what reason) our country is obsessed with the debate over which fictional creature should the average looking boring girl with the personality of a wet paper towel choose… Vampire or Werewolf… extremely pale guy with the Pauly D blowout or the guy who never wears a shirt… [...]

Students are diligently studying for midterms or handing in those papers you just happened to do at the last minute. Daydreams consist of lying on a beach in Florida, or just on a beach somewhere warm–obviously with a beer in hand. Those of you participating in this strange rite of passage for college students, dubbed [...]

To all my fellow Chicagoans in IC: I don’t know about you but for me, going from Chicago to Iowa City was an endlessly strange experience. For starters the lack of train system really threw me off, not to mention the streets seemingly devoid of pigeons. I was only four hours away from Chicago but [...]

Sometimes, as a writer, you sit down to pen a new poem, article or story, and you write for ten minutes (or in this case, an hour or so) only to discover later that you have written something completely different from what you set out to accomplish. This is an eternal and inevitable frustration that [...]

Caitlin Scott and Perri Mayer …your excitement is overwhelming because you cannot wait to see Timeflies at Blue Moose this weekend. Keep an eye out for a Hook Up exclusive! …you sincerely think George Washington would have liked us to have school off on Monday in honor of his birthday. However, as well all know, [...]