The Importance of the Backbone
Confrontation is one of the most difficult yet necessary foundations between individuals. It’s easy when it involves someone you care about. Standing up for them…
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But I Want to Be Everything
Are you a clean girl? A cottage-core girl? What about an indie sleaze girl? It seems like a new aesthetic of “girl” pops up on…
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So Self Aware You’ve Become Out of Touch
A letter from you, to you: You can handle this — you’ve handled worse, you can handle anything — you say as your nails are…
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The Not So Lonely Life Of An Only Child
Since I can remember, every time I’ve revealed my fun fact, I’d be relished in agreance: “You’re such an only child.” Only Child Representation I…
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Does distance really make the heart grow fonder?
There’s an age-old saying that goes, “Distance makes the heart grow fonder,” but does it really hold true? Moving away from the people you love…
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Why Would a Man Be There?
We’ve all been there: the groupchat has been buzzing all day about tonight plans, you’re all getting ready for the night with a drink in…
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Normalize Therapy, We All Need It
Therapy often carries a stigma that it shouldn’t. Many people who attend therapy feel compelled to hide it, as though it’s something shameful or contagious….
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The Introverted Mindset
What does it mean to be labeled as an introvert? Does it mean being shy, unfriendly, timid or even arrogant? Sometimes people misunderstand what being…
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Life of a Retired Party Girl
Penn State University has a reputation for being one of the biggest party schools in America. The atmosphere—fun, wild, electric—tends to entrance students. And it…
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The Shoebox
Everyone you know has that box. You know which one. The one sitting, tucked underneath your bed or in the top corner of your closet….
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Single for the Holidays
It seems like every year when the holiday season rolls around, suddenly everyone is in a relationship. Couples are posting pictures together looking at Christmas…
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Youth is novel, Experience is enduring
College is not, in fact, the best years of your life. Those are still to come. For so many of us, “the best years of…
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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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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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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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The Gut Reaction
Stomach issues have plagued many of our days and many of our lives. Digestive problems are common, so there is no denying that many students…
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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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Don’t be a Prisoner of the Past
Everyone has baggage. It is a natural side effect of life. As we go through our lives and meet new people and have new experiences,…
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