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Gimme a Hug! Gimme a Kiss! (opens the original)
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Dating advice from anon sources in 2026: It’s a numbers game. Go on as many dates as possible— figure out what you like and don’t like.If you are authentically yourself and do the things you like doing without romance in mind, the right person will just come to you.Go up to more people; put yourself out there.Be patient.No matter how we choose to approach dating and romance, mostly everyone wants someone to love. How and when and why people love is different fo
Doctor Faustus... What do you really want???? (opens the original)
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DRINK NO DRINK (opens the original)
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A friend of mine is a year sober. She’s twenty-four. Although I’m aware that lamenting over the past is a fruitless habit, I think about how different my life would be if I stopped drinking at twenty-four. I probably would have made less mistakes, gotten myself into fewer sticky situations, but I also may not have made some of the friends I have now or some of the precious memories, especially while I was living in the Canary Islands, drinking one two many ron miels and Tropicals in crowded bars
WRITING LISTS, RESISTING TEMPTATION & TAKING OUT THE TRASH (opens the original)
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Creativity should be free-flowing as much as it is meticulously fretted over, planned, whittled away at, revised. After a summer at Middlebury working on short fiction writing with Rebecca Makkai, acclaimed author of The Great Believers and most recently, I Have Some Questions for You, among others, I’ve realized that good wr
Reading Slump, Hold the Slump! (opens the original)
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I’ve spent the last month at the Bread Loaf School of English, nestled deep in the hills of the Green Mountain Forest. It’s my first year in graduate school at Middlebury — so naturally as a poser freshman I had to ask my smarty pants peers to recommend some good reads. Plus, I am very much in the midst of finals and simply do not have the brain cells to write a witty, full-length article atm. From Jhumpa Lahiri to Sarah Braunstein, the below list is sure to have something for everyone and will
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