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Frenemies in real life may not be as vindictive and scheming as the ones we see on big and small screens, but they are certainly just as toxic. Research now suggests that this hybrid breed of acquaintance, half-friends, half-enemies, are bad for your health. Seriously.

While the current research still leaves room to justify your choice to consume HFCS, I’ll take my chances spending more for less, instead of risking it with HFCS!

If you’re like most college students, you or your parents had to take out student loans in order to pay for your education. The rising cost of tuition, housing, food and books has made student loans more prevalent in today’s society.

Making new friends is easy but it takes some well worth it effort to keep up with the old. Both old and new friends offer an important perspective, neither of which should be lost at the expense of the other.

By Susannah Sizemore
You know the scenario. It’s presentation day. Your heart races as you await your turn to stand in front of the entire class. You imagine everyone watching you, jeering really, inwardly criticizing your every move. The jokes you had planned suddenly seem nonessential. The few interesting facts you gathered now also seem irrelevant. [...]

The admissions officer across from you asks that fateful question: “Why should this college accept you?” Are you prepared to answer, and answer well?

Does anyone else remember Gattaca? The freaky futuristic movie in which your entire fate (education, career, love life) is decided by your genetic makeup? That’s part of the reason some students and activists are very upset by UC Berkeley’s recent stunt: asking freshmen and incoming transfers to send in swabs of their saliva before fall [...]

Okay, I realize that there are some people who have sworn not to even look at another book until the beginning of the fall semester, but for some of us bookworms, summertime is a great time to catch up on reading what we’re actually interested in. The problem is that we don’t always know what [...]

Remember the good old days of turning on your bedside lamp, pulling out a book (one of those with actual paper pages) and reading before bed? I wonder how many routines have evolved from this nostalgic tradition to working on laptops or reading on IPads instead. I, myself, am even more likely to read on [...]

Sitting through long-winded speeches for a couple of hours in the sun on hard chairs and benches is not exactly a form of celebration that anyone enjoys. Graduation ceremonies are a tradition that brings in crowds by the hundreds, yet no one ever has fun at them. There is excitement in the air for the [...]