How COVID-19 Has Impacted How I Practice My Faith
Virtually every aspect of everyone’s lives has been impacted to some extent by the COVID-19 pandemic. Schools have moved to remote learning...
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I Had Anxiety About Turning Twenty––Then a Pandemic Happened
Two months ago I turned twenty, marking the start of really being an adult (because let’s be real eighteen is a completely arbitrary “...
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What Loneliness Taught Me As An Extrovert
College can be lonely at times. This is a reality that not many people talk about and it is easy to forget when social media feeds are...
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Thoughts on To All the Boys I've Loved Before: P.S. I Still Love You
Perhaps, if you are anything like me, you absolutely loved To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before , the Netflix original film starring Lana...
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Testing the Waters
Perhaps one of the untapped potentials for me thus far in my liberal arts college career was stepping out of my comfort zone and taking on...
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On Being Joyfully Ordinary
My little sister is named after the family from Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life; her middle name is Bailey. You can probably guess,...
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Not Your Average Divorce Story
I’ll begin with a story that we have all heard before, whether it be in your own life or someone else’s. We all know someone whose parents...
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Resolving Conflict with Friends: First-Year Edition
When you first find yourself in a world of foreign people that are not quite your friends yet not quite your acquaintances it can be hard...
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Choosing a Roommate
Coming to college, living with a roommate was something I was apprehensive about, but for me, it has turned out to be a really positive...
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Harvey Weinstein's Female Lawyer
(Content warning: sexual assault) I am an avid listener of the New York Times’ The Daily podcast. It’s what I listen to every weekday...
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5 Reasons You Should Watch Fleabag
In a world full of endless content and streaming services, it’s hard to be surprised anymore, much less captivated or compelled by TV shows...
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Miss Americana Review
Taylor Swift has been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, so naturally, when it was announced a documentary about her life was...
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A Love Letter to Sunday Mornings in “The Middle of Nowhere”
I’ve been thinking about clouds a lot lately, and about silences that used to overwhelm me before I realized that they were full of sound...
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Confidence
Confidence: it will make you or break you. This is a golden rule I know to be true like I know my name is Stephanie and I like sweet...
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A Feminist’s Review of Netflix’s Sex Education Season 2
Sex Education is one of the best programs currently on Netflix. If you’ve been living under a rock and haven’t seen or heard of the show,...
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How to Have 'Me Time' Guilt-Free
I would say I am a pretty independent person. I don’t mind sitting alone at meal times, I like going to concerts by myself and I have never...
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My Church is a Building
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. There are 14 stations of the cross around the perimeter of St...
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An Ode to Mornings
It’s 8:00 am on a Saturday morning and the doors to Wiggin Street Coffee have just been unlocked. I sit in a booth with my yogurt and...
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The Pros and Cons of Caring...A Lot
I wanted to write (and by write I mean lightly and kind of philosophically rant) about what it means to be a very naturally caring person,...
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My Favorite Street
The mornings of my preschool years belonged to High Street. My father and I had a strict routine, which I adored: he would dad-strap me...
