Editor’s Note: The Daily’s Tyler Branson and Katie Parker offer advice every Wednesday based on issues concerning students.

Q: Sometimes I have this unquenchable thirst for something more than the world around me, and I can't seem to ever find it. I feel trapped within the walls of school, life, the world. How can I transcend reality?

Tyler: Accept that life as you know it is comprised of human suffering.  Next, accept that the origin of suffering is your attachment to desire.  Also, the cessation of suffering happens only when you free yourself from your attachment to desire.  Thus the way to free yourself from attachment to desire is by following the middle path.  Also, Bison Witches has a $7 cover every Thursday.

Katie: It's actually $3 now for ladies.

Q: Can T. Boone Pickens build a rock that he himself cannot buy?

Tyler: T. Boone Pickens actually made a pledge to have the Daily powered entirely by my hot air by the year 2010.

Katie: Tyler's hot air is not energy efficient - it wastes time like Hummers waste gas.

Q: I know recycling helps the environment, but I consciously don't do it anymore because my green bin blew away with the wind--and I don't feel bad. Am I a horrible person?

Tyler: You could always steal your neighbor's bin, and continue recycling as before.  Or you could defiantly turn up your nose at the green movement, because, as Sen. Inhofe has shown, not all scientists agree that global warming exists; therefore, until 100% of people agree with the green movement, the green movement is bull hockey.

Katie: I don't think you are a horrible person.  Recycling is a very important part each person can play in helping to preserve mother nature.  And although you have failed miserably at potentially restoring our Earth to precious and beautiful place it once was, your inner soul still has the potential to shine brighter than the green bin that "blew away."  Maybe your calling is in ceramics, or watching television shows about going green.

Q: I'm a freshman and I absolutely love college! I love being independent, reading all these intellectual books and classical literature, and thriving within this wonderful academic environment. How much better will it get in the next three years?

Tyler: Your youthful exuberance and naive romanticism is humorous, almost as humorous as the naiveté with which Gatsby followed Daisy across the Universe to be near her, all the while fully knowing she could not break free from her sphere of affluence to date a man of "new money."  No, no amount of money in the world would make Daisy love Gatsby.  Taken from Sparknotes.com

Katie: You don't know college until you wake up fully clothed next to a giant tub of cheese-poofs with your laptop stuck on the Sex and the City DVD menu screen at top volume.  That's how much better it can get.

-Tyler Branson is an English senior and Katie J. Parker is a journalism senior.