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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Feeling Inexperienced in an Experienced World
The feeling of falling behind: a universal experience. Everyone has an aspect of their life that they’re insecure about, something that they are ashamed to…
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If You Can Only Have Two
A well-known theory states a student can only truly acquire two out of three things: a good social life, a good sleep schedule or good…
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And When I’m Back in Chicago, I Feel It
As we age, we begin to reflect on past versions of ourselves. People don’t realize how much they have changed until they take a moment…
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Reading is Cool Again … Apparently?
The internet has somehow simultaneously revived and complicated our love for reading. Once upon a time, if you told someone your favorite hobby was reading,…
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Aware & Aggravated
In our hearts, we trust. But how much of our emotions and behavior can we really trust? Social media personality and influencer Leo Skepi is…
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The Less I Know The Better
To know or not to know, that is the question to be asking yourself. William Shakespeare may have proposed the question first, but what good…
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Say My Name, Say MY Name
Destiny’s Child said it best. Our names hold the weight of our identity and personality. In passing or in deep conversation, hearing a friend or…
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Class is in Session: First Impressions
First impressions that people have of you are important to how your relationship with them plays out. While not every first impression is perfect, trying…
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