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Dining out during a pandemic
By Alex Leo-Guerra | March 25, 2020Livelihoods, economies and entire cultures have been affected by COVID-19.
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Looking for sunshine on a cloudy day
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On the Pooh Pathology Test
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On becoming a goddess in central South Carolina
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By Tessa Delgo | February 13, 2020In a 2005 commercial, my mother turns to the camera and beams, “My child wants to be an artist.”
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What Kobe meant to me
By Derek Chen | February 6, 2020As a kid, I absolutely loved the NBA. The league had the biggest and brightest basketball stars in the world, and being the six-year-old dreamer I was, I wanted to be just like them
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How Last.fm ruined my life
By Jonathan Pertile | January 30, 2020I’m obsessed with music data. At this point, I might as well just call it what it is: an addiction.
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‘Did you like abroad better than Duke?’
By Eva Hong | January 23, 2020The question caught me off guard.
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I can’t stop thinking about JoJo Siwa
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Imagining Sisyphus happy
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By Sydny Long | November 21, 2019Ever since the dawn of my movie-watching days, I have been singularly obsessed with animation.
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20 years later, ‘The West Wing’ still holds up
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What’s your sign?
By Sarah Derris | November 7, 2019One of the first things I consciously remember reading as a child was a book on zodiacs.
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Embracing ‘losing control’ through female rap
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Crate-digging in the age of Spotify
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What a horny teen murder drama taught me about myself
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Setting a new ‘baseline’
By Kerry Rork | October 10, 2019The cultural discourse surrounding mental health seems to perpetuate and welcome the worst baseline. And when the baseline is disrupted, it feels nearly impossible to reset.
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Price updates community on planning for academic year, including calendar changes and guidelines for campus life
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