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-Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, September 28, 2021
“We don’t think that murder is funny, we don’t think that people being killed is funny — we just think that we’re funny.” The very first podcast I ever listened to regularly was “My Favorite Murder,” a comedy podcast that falls into the popular and highly lucrative family of true crime podcasts. It is one
Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, September 14, 2021
Nearly a year ago today, a CNN article proclaimed that “things are most likely never going ‘back to normal.’” At the time, that wasn’t really a controversial statement — it was the prevailing sentiment among people who spent too much time reading the news. The COVID-19 pandemic had shaken the foundations of our “normal,” and
Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, August 31, 2021
I have moved five times during my four years at Notre Dame, and every time I am shocked by the sheer amount of stuff I have. Sure, I wouldn’t ever say I’m a minimalist, but somehow I always find myself packing my car to the absolute brim with posters, storage bins, clothes, command strips and
Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, May 4, 2021
I’ve never been a huge fan of New Year’s resolutions. Even aside from the gross ways diet companies exploit people’s insecurities around the first day of every year, New Year’s resolutions seem doomed to fail. In the two decades of New Year’s Days I’ve experienced, I’ve tried my hand at a few resolutions (meditate more,
Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, April 20, 2021
If you’re a friend of mine, a family member, or honestly anyone who’s interacted with me in the last few weeks, I’ve probably asked you the same unanswerable question: Should I cut my hair? It’s always the same conversation. I feel like I need a change, but I like being able to braid and style
Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, April 6, 2021
This semester, my Thursday nights are usually entirely forgettable — I have class until 5:10 p.m., so when I get home my brain is completely fried. My roommates are usually at work, so I boil some pasta, change into sweats and watch a few episodes of whatever show I happen to be binging. A few
Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, March 23, 2021
Alright, I’ll admit it. In the heat of the lockdown summer, around June of last year, I found myself down a rabbit hole of conspiracy theories. I was consuming heaps of media centered around conspiracies, from binging “The X-Files” to spending sweltering afternoons watching “documentaries” on The History Channel with my dad. I found learning
Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, March 9, 2021
Growing up, I spent most of my time learning about the world in two rooms: my church sanctuary, and my living room, with the TV tuned to MSNBC. Religion and politics have always been a part of my life, but they were always completely unrelated. I’d hear my minister mention something about racial justice, or
Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, February 23, 2021
We all know the one about the tortoise and the hare, right? I assume I don’t need to spend time recounting the tale, the fable employed to teach every third grader in the country about the importance of hard work and perseverance. From a young age, we’re taught that “slow and steady wins the race,”
Ellie Konfrst | Tuesday, February 9, 2021
If you know nothing else about me, you may know that I am a pretty big Taylor Swift fan. After I first heard “Red” when I was 13, I quickly devoured the rest of her discography and began anxiously anticipating her next releases. In a sense, I grew up with her, letting her stories of heartbreak