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Get Smart and Enjoy the Middle
One of the most prominent feelings that I can remember in high school was the exact moment that it ended. We swore that we wouldn't make it out alive and that those days never had [...]
The Best Dating Advice I Ever Got Was Completely Wrong
I remember sitting at home one day many years ago, watching “The Maury Show,” as I always loved to do on my free mornings. I was watching this woman cry over a man that she [...]
A Rebel Against Society
Since coming to college, I’ve made many new friends. With these friendships comes all of the “get to know each other” questions. Examples of a few I’ve received the most often are: Where are you [...]
How to Cultivate a Healthy Relationship with Food
As many are aware, last week was National Eating Disorder Awareness week. Aside from clinically diagnosed eating disorders, I want to bring attention to the umbrella term of “disordered eating,” a phenomenon that has become [...]
Get Smart: Think (Positively) Before You Speak
“Think before you speak.” This is the phrase that gets you to stop and bite your tongue. Think before you let all that rage out. Think before you say something you can’t take back. In [...]
Stay Young & Stay You
Our fathers’ worst nightmare, but one of our greatest childhood joys. They would be gone for months, and then out of nowhere, they’d begin to spring up everywhere. 11:11 could heave a sigh of relief [...]
A Time at Ashton Woods is a Time Well Spent
Imagine yourself pulling into a degraded, run down apartment complex in the outskirts of Greensboro, North Carolina. The buildings’ brown paint is chipping away, and the ambiance is mellow. You roll over a few speed [...]
Numbers, French, and Air
It’s the time of the year for low productivity and minimal motivation. Whether it’s a rut in the semester or a case of Garfield’s Mondays, nothing is being done. Or worse, nothing is being done [...]
Get Smart: Social Media Detox
Rewind to 16 years ago, year 2000, where desktop computers held AIM chat-rooms, flip phones were used “only for emergencies,” and Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter, were simply nonexistent. Fast-forward 16 years later and I sit [...]
Five Ways to Reframe the Negative
"Change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change." - Wayne Dyer 1. Think of stress as your friend, opportunity: We’ve all heard "Stress is the #1 killer,” right? So we automatically [...]
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