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At Ease
At six months old I started to pick out my own clothes. My face would light up when my mom opened my closet for me. She would hold me up…
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Why I Quit Social Media and Can’t Go Back
In November 2021 I made a change. Sitting in my stinky dorm room (because let’s be honest, all dorm rooms smell so bad), I deleted social media apps. Systematically, one…
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Attention Economy
In 1997, theoretical physicist Michael Goldhaber warned that the world was shifting away from a material economy and more towards an attention based economy– one focused on attracting and maintaining…
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It’s Easier to Sympathize With Real People
Sean Blanda’s “The ‘Other Side’ is Not Dumb” is a poignant essay about current societal discourse that everyone can learn from. It’s a harsh but true indictment of the knee-jerk…
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What No One Told Me About Adjusting to College
By Jennie Ellsworth FOMO is real y’all. For those of you that do not know, FOMO stands for the fear of missing out. I found that most of the FOMO…
