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Love It or Hate It, We All Do It: Self-Promotion

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Like my status. Then, watch my YouTube video. Check out my photography blog. Read my article. And above all, like my status. Just like it, it won’t hurt you. Make me feel popular, come on, make me feel funny and appreciated for my witty commentary that is most likely a run-on sentence about how loud people are, how much every building smells and how I want nothing … [Read more...] about Love It or Hate It, We All Do It: Self-Promotion

Nam Knows Best: Misery is More Fun with Friends

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How are you? I’m alive, I think. I have cried more this semester than I have in the past ten years of my life. I have hit rock bottom. I am a wreck. Am I even alive? Rock. Bottom. All of the above are responses I have heard from various people over these most recent weeks. Other people, obviously not me, have been seen roaming around campus with this look … [Read more...] about Nam Knows Best: Misery is More Fun with Friends

Nam Knows Best: Gratitude and Giving Thanks

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Gratitude: Warm, Fuzzy and (Sometimes) Just Too Hard Do you ever not want to say “thank you”? You know, when it has just been one of those days where nothing seems worth your gratitude, when it is too hot and too cold, when the library smells like feet, when the omelette station runs out of egg whites, when you hate everyone and everyone hates you and why can’t the shuttle … [Read more...] about Nam Knows Best: Gratitude and Giving Thanks

Nam Knows Best: The Stages of Disappointment

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Fair warning: this is the most exacting and analytical article I have ever written for this column. It stems from recent personal experience, but I thought it would be applicable for all of us as we apply, audition, interview, submit, etc. for our futures. There is that unspeakable fear of getting it and also of not getting it. It usually comes in an email, nowadays. It used … [Read more...] about Nam Knows Best: The Stages of Disappointment

Nam Knows Best: The hills are alive and you can be too

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I’m going to vent for a minute on the behalf of, well, everyone: nothing is right. Nothing. I feel like I am a walking disclaimer of “fine, but not quite good enough.” Whether it be classes or a grade on a test or a particular friendship that is just not where I want it to be or the more superficial but just as impactful to my morning routine running out of coffee on a Monday — … [Read more...] about Nam Knows Best: The hills are alive and you can be too