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The Spring Break Conundrum
Even though winter seems like a never-ending, snowpocalyptic abyss right now, Spring Break is right around the corner! Is your Spring Break planned out? Okay…me neither. But luckily, college students like us have OPTIONS. From visiting family at home and catching up on Netflix to jetting off Cancun, there’s so much out there for all [...]
The Most Anticipated Movies of Spring ’13
At this point, you might have grown a little weary from all of these rather serious, thought-provoking films, and all you’re craving right now is a delicious popcorn movie. Late January to early March is generally when a famine of excellent movies occurs (maybe it’s Valentine’s Day that mucks it up, but I’m not sure), and so most of us are living off of reruns of Game of Thrones. Fortunately, blockbuster season is just around the corner, and this spring promises us the usual fill of action-adventure movies we so desperately crave around this time every year.
Taking a Semester Off: Why It’s Not the End of the World
The best thing about college is that it is a time for growing. I think a lot of us get into this mindset of what the “typical” college experience should be, what the “typical” college student is like, and are blindsided when things change. I’m here to tell you it’s okay if plans change.
5 Party Songs that Have Jumped the Shark
Eventually you get to the point where as soon as you hear the first few bars of the song in question, you want to shove your fingers into your ears and run away screaming, “NaNaNaNaNa, I CAN’T HEAR YOU.”
Why It’s Okay to Like Valentine’s Day
Very few people in the 18-25 age bracket are excited about Valentine’s Day anymore. For most, it means a demarcation between singletons and relationshipites, a symbol of mass consumerism and the monetization of love, and a pressurized gauge of your love for a particular person as a quantity relative to other couples’ love, which has been exacerbated by social media. But, it doesn’t have to be this way. If Valentine’s Day is a shallow holiday devised by an American greeting card company, why does your appreciation of it have to be complicated by depth and inner meaning? Why is it wrong to love an apparently superficial holiday for superficial reasons?
The Single Girl’s Guide to Valentine’s Day: College Edition
It’s Valentine’s Day! If you’re in a relationship, good for you! It must be nice getting all the free chocolate and flowers and love and whatever else it is that couples do on Valentine’s Day. Unfortunately for everyone out there who’s single, Valentine’s Day is just a lovely reminder that we are, indeed, forever alone. [...]