Grindr: A How-To

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Ah, Grindr at Kenyon.  Sometimes I love it, sometimes it makes me want to throw my phone off of the Caples roof and then run it over with a Campus Safety golf cart. So, basically, it’s a mixed bag.

However, Grindr etiquette is complicated, and I’m sure a lot of you have questions. So, I will try to answer some of them, using my experience as a gay man who browses Grindr as a basis for my knowledge.  Am I an expert?  By no means.  Do I think I am?  Of course.

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Hilltop Hook-Ups

This image was simply entitled "boyfriends" and is now framed in my room.

This image was simply entitled “boyfriends” and is now framed in my room.

You’ve seen us cry. You’ve seen us hurl. Now, watch us make out! After compiling responses from our staffers via an anonymous survey, The Thrill has painstakingly mapped out all of its contributors’ past hook-up spots, including some pretty embarrassing ones. Check them out after the jump!

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10 o’clock list: Reasons the Sophomore Slump is Real

We will get through this with finesse, sophomores.

We will get through this with finesse, sophomores.

Sophomore year starts with such hope. Your first year is over, and you begin to hope that your college experience will continue on the exponential rise you got into at the end of last year. However, as hard as you may fight the “sophomore slump,” it came as sure as the first snow came to Gambier before Thanksgiving. For those of you who don’t believe in this phenomenon, here are a few ways you might be experiencing it and you just don’t even realize it yet.

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Valentines for Hook-Ups

Valentine’s Day is one of those things that the human race either loves or hates, and this depends mostly on your relationship status. The lovers love it, the singles hate it, and everyone is tired of hearing about it. Right?

WRONG. There is another subset of the population, perhaps even the biggest, whose struggles get sorely overlooked during this time of year: the hook-ups. Whether it’s been a steady thing for a few months now, or you made the mistake of doing it last night, now you have to face a day that stares you in the face, screaming at you to define things in an even more terrifying way than you and your hook-up’s last drunken conversation.

But fear no more! The Thrill has created some handy valentines catered just to your delicate situation (Hallmark, feel free to e-mail us). Check them out after the jump!

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