How Birth Control Cured My Cystic Acne
There is such a stigma behind any female contraceptive – birth control pills being one of the most common. When I made the decision to go on birth control a year ago, there was a lot I didn’t know.
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College Crisis: I Hate My Boyfriend’s Girl Friends
She’s that girl you love to hate, and you hate that other people love. She’s somehow simultaneously the seemingly unattainable girl next door and just one…
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Best Friend Breakups
Everyone talks about the heartbreak you face when you lose a significant other, but something you hear about less often is the emotional trauma you…
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College Crisis: I Survived BASICs
You’ve heard the rumors, but you never think it’ll happen to you — that is until one night when maybe things get out of hand…
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College Crisis: Reversing the Stigma Around Therapy
I was embarrassed to be going to therapy. There. I said it. It is 2018, and yet, some people still think that going to talk…
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Starting a New Relationship with an Expiration Date
Do we stay together? Are we even together? Should we never speak again? We don’t know what the right or wrong thing is to say.
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How to Share Friends After a Breakup
Keep your friends close and know that just because you share friends with your ex, you don’t have to remove those friends from your life.
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College Crisis: Moving in With The Boyfriend
In their eyes, I was still the baby. As the youngest of three girls, it was understood in my household that I was not yet…
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Is Greek Life Dead? No, But A Young Man Named Timothy Piazza Is.
I’ve overheard several students make the reactionary statement, “Greek life is dead.” When hearing that word used in that context, it made me realize how the passage of time can make people become desensitized to tragedy.
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College Crisis: My Clothes Do Not Define Me
“I tried on one of my favorite articles of clothing; a denim skirt. I looked at myself in the mirror, pleased with what I saw. Suddenly a thought popped into my head. I thought about how the last time I wore that skirt I didn’t feel safe when the guy at the bar put his hand on my thigh.”
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Views From The Crowd
See the Women’s March through the eyes of Valley Photographer Ann Li.
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College Crisis: I Was The Other Woman
We’re only human and we’re only college students.
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College Crisis: Sorority Rush Drop Out
I quickly realized that Greek life wasn’t for me and was extremely disappointed since I had always pictured myself in a sorority.
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College Crisis: Bad Roommates Made Me Miserable
Whether you’re living with your closest friends or random strangers, everyone has had to deal with a difficult roommate at one point or another.
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Internship Insight: A Letter From a Supervisor
Dear Intern, You have a lot to learn and you’ll be leaving us in just a short few months, so let’s not waste time.
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Valley Review: Justin Bieber’s “Purpose”
Whether you want to admit it or not, we know you all have given it a listen once or twice—and by once or twice we mean maybe a couple hundred times.
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Why The Stigmatization of “Sorority Girls” Needs to End
Amy Schumer once said, “My real beauty… lies in my ability to truly not give a sh*t what anyone thinks of me.” While I do my best to live up to these wise words, I’m not ashamed to explain the one time I didn’t.
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Evolution of the Booty
Bootyliciouss (boo·ty·li·cious). If you were to look up the word bootylicious in the dictionary, you would see that 1. It is an actual word and 2. This is another thing that Queen Beyoncé can now have credit to.
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College Crisis: Why I Broke Up With The Perfect Guy
So many times, it has to do with infidelity or falling out of love. Maybe one person even meets someone new. All these reasons are concrete and absolutely valid, but none of them apply to me.
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Wearing Lace: Naughty or Nice
Lace is one of those tricky fabrics that can send mixed messages. We’re all about flaunting what you’ve got and letting your freak flag fly, but let’s make sure that flag is waving in your desired direction.
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