Establish Your Own Standards of Beauty

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I am a Hispanic woman over the age of 30 who has spent over half my life dieting, exercising and starving to conform to what the media has portrayed as “beautiful.” I have been on nearly every fad diet and have tried numerous diet pills. I have cried myself to sleep trying to be something [...]

The World Needs You: Dear Writer

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Dear Writing Student: To all the aspiring journalists, English majors, storytellers, prospective poets, lovers of letters, stringers of sentences and syllables and even the math majors scribbling the next chapter of their short stories in their algebra books: Keep at it. You know this is what you’re meant to do. You’ve known it since you [...]

Go On An Lunch Date — With Your Parents

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College is all about getting out on your own, spreading your wings after leaving the nest of your parents’ making. And it is exhilarating. I vividly remember the first night I spent in my dorm, everything decorated just as I pleased and my clothes for the next day picked out, ready to rock the campus. My [...]

Eight Summer Reads To Put College Into Perspective

Kitty Books

Now that finals are out of the way, it’s about time you reached for a book that isn’t about molecular biology or the lost tribes of Malaysia. Whether your summer plans include gallivanting around the globe, interning in the big city, relaxing on the beach or catching up on lost sleep, summer is the perfect [...]

Master the Five Love Languages

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When I was in high school, I had a tendency to get gifts for my friends from Walgreens. These gifts were well loved, mostly because they included Play-Doh and glow sticks. Now that I’m in college, I no longer have the time or funds to make these Gift Bags of Childhood possible. So, what do [...]

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