Cristina Stiller '12 can't stand columns about Valentine's Day, too bad she ends up writing one herself.

It is the episode that we have all been waiting for, the return of Robin Sparkles!! It also is possibly the dirtiest episode in HIMYM’s history. And that’s saying something.

If America adopts universal health care, what will become of quantum physics?

Some weeks ago, a conservative newspaper called Investors’ Business Daily ran an editorial stating, “Scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn’t have a chance in the U.K.” because, as a result of a degenerative disease that has left him paralyzed, “National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man ... is essentially worthless.”

Hawking, who is British and has lived in the U.K. his entire life, responded that he “would not be here today” if not for Britain’s public health-care system.

A 137-year-old farmers’ market in the small city of Orillia, Canada might lose its land, and Cornell University may be the only actor able to save it. As a result of an 1872 covenant drawn by Mr. Goldwin Smith, Patrick Kehoe, a concerned Orillia resident, is now appealing to Cornell to become the “Guardian of the Covenant.”

Storming the florally adorned set of the State Theatre Friday evening, Toronto based indie pop group Stars immediately brought four fifths of the crowd to their feet. Building a swirling hurricane with golden organ and tin-laced percussion; the velvety vocal of Amy Millan weaved the band's inaugural track.

Breathe easy, my comrades. You will not be forced to read about the dreaded E-word while pretending to pay attention in your Friday morning lecture. There will be no mention of Obama, McCain, Palin, or Biden, no mention of booths, or fraud, or turnout, or analysis — well, except those mentions.

All of you who survived the last week of campaign coverage without having an epileptic fit deserve a federal tax credit for therapy and Xanax.

I know the CNN “first polls close” ticker nearly took me out. I kept mistaking it for a countdown to the apocalypse.

But I made it through, baby.

And I voted. I voted in my first general election.