The Fig Tree Metaphor
Some of life’s biggest decisions happen within your four years of college. Even now, you’re probably asking yourself five million questions about your future. Who…
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Is It Sweet & Endearing, Or Is It an Ick?
Cracking down beyond the surface level with a situationship or on a first date is one of the most fulfilling yet dreary stages of a…
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The 5 Stages of Grief in a College Breakup
The classic five stages of grief are as follows: denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. A breakup tends to follow these stages since the loss…
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Now That We Don’t Talk
After a breakup with a significant other, we tend to reminisce on the details we will miss most. Rereading text messages. Taking a trip through…
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The Architecture of The College Roman Empire
This time a year ago, the world was asking themselves: how many times a day do we think about the Roman Empire? A week? A…
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Be Honest, Are We Boring?
As far as we know, time machines do not exist. Though technology continues to advance, it is not that far yet, and unless they are…
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Scrolling Past Empathy
Commenting on a TikTok judging the people who made it. Showing your friend someone’s Instagram post and saying things like “This is so weird” or…
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It’s All About Boundaries
Boundaries. One of the most essential aspects of our inner peace and relationships, and simultaneously one of the hardest things to set in place. Boundaries…
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Our Sacred Spaces
We spend so much of our lives leaving our spaces to find ourselves in others. But how far must one really go in order to…
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Unpacking The “I’m Not Like Other Girls” Trope
“I’m not like the other girls.” It’s a phrase that became a mantra for countless teens, especially in the early 2010s when this idea found…
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The Laws of Yin & Yang
“Don’t you ever, in your life, dim your light for nobody,” Tyler The Creator once said. As humans, we tend to conform to a negative…
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Choosing Compassion
Have you ever held a grudge so long you can’t even remember how it started? Or found yourself disliking someone for something they said or…
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Your Real Life Flat and Round Characters
Back in language arts class in elementary school, one of the lessons that we learned was the difference between flat and round characters in books….
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Navigating Jealousy in Friendships
Friendships are one of the most beautiful things that life has to offer. They’re built on kindness, love and respect. They can sustain the most…
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Don’t Know What You Got (Until It’s Gone)
An unfortunate and harsh reality of life is that we never seem to realize what we have until it is taken away from us. This…
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The Art of Annotating
Using a permanent black pen to write in a new, clean, crisp book!? Now that’s just blasphemy. Or … is it? What if we told…
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You Just Get Me
The pressure of finding friends in college is not just finding someone to walk to class with or someone to go to the dining hall…
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The Burnt Toast Theory
On a daily basis, bad things happen to us, on both large scales and small. You’re late for a meeting or you fail an exam….
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In The Hours Outside of Nine to Five
Measuring success in life is hard when there is no distinct unit of measure. As college students, the pressure of securing a well-paying job and…
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Choose Love That Chooses You
When our feelings get involved, we tend to focus on ourselves. We have blinders on focusing on what we feel towards them, how attached we…
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