Tracing My Thoughts Through My Mother
Have you ever asked your thoughts where they brought themselves from? I asked mine, and they said they came from somewhere called syllable...
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On College Apps and Comparing Journeys
College application season is a competitive, high-stakes process that looms large for many high-school seniors. Many students that now...
On GPA
When I first read Adam Grant’s December 8th opinion piece “What Straight-A Students Get Wrong” in the New York Times, I was upset. My whole...
The Perfect Lizzo Song for Whatever Mood You're In
Unless you’re new to my Her Campus articles, you probably know that I harbor an endless supply of love for the Minneapolis-based singer,...
7 Ways I Broke Up With Heartbreak
I won’t lie. I’ve had a rough start to the year. From the stress of Rush Week (not the ideal experience for an anxious introvert) to boy...
10 Reasons Having a Roommate in the Winter is Way Better
After living in a single last year, I had my worries about spending my sophomore year with a roommate. Yes, she was one of my best friends...
Getting Older
Over Thanksgiving Break, I turned nineteen, and I spent the day driving through my hometown, searching for the small, mundane sights that...
How to Become Unathletic
May of 2018 marked the last month I would ever run competitively. My final race wasn’t particularly victorious or exciting. In fact, during...
On the Notion of Siblings
Three years ago I moved away from my hometown, a place where my last name “Minor” was an identifier that meant basically the entire town...
Subscription Box Review: Simple Loose Leaf
Subscription boxes are all the rage. They come in every possible theme, delivering all the products you could think of to your doorstep...
5 Tips for Getting Back Atop Your... Work!
We’re at that low point in the semester: assignments have piled, finals and final projects loom, unfinished readings haunt your bookshelf,...
From Binging to Balance
For years, I’ve struggled to find a balance in fitness. I’ve tried long distance running, biking, yoga, and dance classes, to mention just...
Being Human
Trigger warning: this article discusses eating disorders and related thoughts and conditions. How do you turn away from something that has...
Five Years of Yoga
My first time trying yoga was not a happy experience. The team had just finished a gruesome forty minute run in the frigid, pouring rain,...
Literary Idols
For much of my junior year of high school, I carried around a small scrap of paper tucked into my phone case. On it I had written the...
Intuitive Eating
Growing up, I was always taught that it is possible, if not necessary, to completely control everything you eat. My freshman health class...
What Animated Movies Can Learn From Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse
Since Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse came out a few weeks ago, I’ve been hearing nothing but hype, and people talking about how good it...
On Seasonal Depression
Every year, towards the end of November, the campus changes; the blue skies and green grass begin to fade. The trees that used to hold...
10 Songs to Help Your Year Go Right
Congratulations! You made it to 2019! Personally, 2018 was a fairly good year: the one in which I was accepted to Kenyon, graduated from...
Turning Existential Dread Into Existential Joy
This summer, I had an existential crisis. You may have heard that existentialism is the philosophical theory that the world, and life, is...
