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An Open Letter To Pimples
So here I am, an almost-26-year-old-woman sitting alone in half darkness, writing this to you with Colgate Total all over my face. I’ve been Googling and self-diagnosing, and the internet…
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10 Things You Should Never Do In Front Of Your Lover While Naked
There’s nothing worse than wearing pants—nudity is a wonderful thing. But you’re at your most vulnerable when you’re naked, at the mercy of emotions and the elements, which are both…
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Ten Reasons Why Someone Should Have Sex With You
You’re so bored. It’s six p.m. and there is nothing good on T.V. so you want to have sex with someone. Depending on your situation, you will either have to…
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5 Things That Will Make You Miss Your Ex
Thanks to the internet, there are a myriad of different ways you can miss your ex. You can go on Facebook and lurk their life without you. Oh look, there’s…
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The Unspoken Rules Of Drinking After College
After college, you’re thrusted into the real world to Find A Job and Be Self Sufficient, and in turn, you become aware that the people in this world think binge…
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The Different Types Of Bitches
Bitches always think they’re so funny. Whenever they say something that was kind of screwed up, they’ll quickly be like, “That wasn’t bitchy. I was just making a joke!” Well,…
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How To Be Horny
You’re eating a Subway sandwich with your friend when all of a sudden, you want to have sex with someone. You try to avoid it by focusing intently on your…
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Open Letter To My Dead Best Friend
I can’t say it has been easy learning to live without you. Heading into year three, I can say I have started to make real progress. I can talk about…
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Ten Reasons Why You Should Get Your S**t Together
Once you understand that you don’t have to get wasted, sleep with a random, and vomit in a trashcan to have a successful Friday night, you can actually get the…
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Pros And Cons Of Dating In NYC
New York is like a fucking college campus, down to catching your friend on her bi-weekly walk of shame while you’re on your way to work. You can hit it…
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Dating 101: 20 Secrets (That Are Not Really Secrets) About Dating
And finally, the real secret to dating (and life) is just to be the most amazing version of yourself possible. It sounds corny, but it’s true! Don’t be one of…
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5 Types Of Melancholy
‘Melancholy’ is in and of itself a fascinating word. Visually, at least, it could be like a homophone of ‘symphony’, as in an assemblage of beautiful instruments, as it ends…
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Your Handy Chart of Drug Stereotypes
Among the amazing tidbits of information: Meth heads will always S your D whereas stoners never like to do it, Punky Brewster is the poster child for Ecstasy and cocaine…
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10 Songs To Listen To At Your Graduation
The song is essentially all about moving out of your parents house and going away to college. I mean, she talks about spreading your wings and taking a risk, which…
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Ten Reasons Why Being In A Relationship Is Awesome
You can relate to your friends who have been in relationships. There’s no longer this awkward divide between you two. You get it! All those times they bitched to you…
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How To Be An Ivy League Student
Look around campus and realize the breadth of notable alumnus: a slew of former U.S. Presidents, ambassadors, authors, artists, and CEOs. Jump at the thought that some of said luminaries…
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10 Terrible Movies That Are Totally Awesome
Terrible movies that are totally awesome are the kind you either won’t admit to liking, or proclaim you like because you’re trying to be ironic. Terrible movies that are totally…
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5 Things That Happen At A High School Party
It’s interesting to think about why we were so willing destroy our bodies at seventeen. Being a teenager was all about “Yes. Give me that! Why not? I might projectile…
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Inappropriate Songs I Enjoyed as a Child
If I were a teenager or young adult back then, I would’ve been like, “Oh, TLC? Yeah, they totally invented the condom eye patch. Rad girls.” But I was a…
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How To Live In Washington DC
Get accepted into a “competitive” fellowship or internship or entry level lobbying position, whatever. Think this is it: it’s only a matter of time before you are saving the world…
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The 5 Types of Unanswered Ex Texts
Heightening the aforementioned emotional experiences is the ominous unanswered text message. Perhaps you’re just reaching out as a gesture of thoughtfulness, or perhaps it’s a deeper expression of longing, but…
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Ten Reasons Why Being In A Relationship Sucks
Someone has power over you. They have the ability to make you sublimely happy and they can also make you feel super depressed. You lose slight control over your moods.…
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6 Reasons You Should Have Sex On The First Date
I’ve thought a lot about whether or not to have sex on the first date, and a lot of people have told me that I ought to take things a…
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5 Lies My Friends With Eating Disorders Have Told Me
Being either a gay man or a girl means there is a good chance you’re hungry right now. If you add “works in fashion”, you’re just straight up starving all…
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7 Things You Can’t Do If You’re Depressed
On the most basic level, movies simply ask for a type of attentiveness that is hard to muster if you’re depressed. Cerebral films tend to have a lot of silences…
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The Pros and Cons of Deleting Your Facebook
Facebook has no influence on the relationships that actually matter to me. It’s the people on the periphery who get to stick around past their expiration date. If I deleted…
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Five Types Of Guys You Should Have Sex With
Hot people are overrated. Even they will admit it and say, “Yeah. I’m not that great but my face is awesome. Wanna look at it a little bit more?” Ugly…
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10 Albums For Depressed People
Comprised mostly of minimal instrumental tracks by music ventures from The Cure to Squarepusher, the feeling of the album is that of subtle sadness, hope, and overarching, nostalgic beauty. The…
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An Open Letter To Birth Control
Screw you, HBC, for making me feel that way. Screw you for making me irrational, hairless, enraged and depressed. Screw you for making me bleed like a stuck pig and…
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The Different Types of Relationships There Are
Indeed, the two people in the Relationship for Show find each other almost by some self-organizing principal of reality, nature, society or culture; friends of the two are likely to…
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Ten Reasons Why You Hate Your Ex
They could never love you as much as you loved them. Maybe they could for awhile but it didn’t last. You started to notice it while lying in bed together.…
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Different Types of Girlfriends There Are
Indeed, events such as these are simply happenstance, and for this, the Stressed Out Girlfriend induces a sort of torture on her partner in which her partner must either become…
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The Devastating Experience of Losing A Best Friend
The end of a friendship is all about you. It’s nothing but you. It’s almost like a personal attack on your character. Someone who once thought of you as a…
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Different Types of Boyfriends There Are
While outward displays of masculinity, affability, confidence and power may be a regular part of the Insecure Boyfriend’s behavioral repertoire, the Insecure Boyfriend in fact has low self-confidence and extremely…
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Letter To My Best Friend
I am unsure of how to begin this letter. Most of our conversations are never words, rather actions: a smile between note-taking; looking at each other over cups, your coffee…
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50 Things University Taught Me: First Year
Being away from everyone you’ve gone to school with since you were 4 helps you sort out those worth coming home for and those worth forgetting. That is, if you…
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5 Things Stoned People Like To Do
Fact: Your parents always call you when you’re high. They have a sixth sense for when their children are killing brain cells. Dateline instilled it in them or something.
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A Guide to Writing the Most Generic OkCupid Profile Ever
My Self- Summary: I hate writing these things/I suck at describing myself/I am not at all good at this but here goes nothing… I’m an easygoing guy. I love a…
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5 Activities To Do On Ambien That Don’t Involve Sleeping
Ambien is a fatass. It puts weed munchies to shame. You could have eaten a huge dinner and it still wouldn’t matter because when the Ambien hits, a ravenous hunger…
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Networking: Good vs. Evil
I wasn’t born rich or powerful enough to be initiated into the world of networking from an early age, so I always misunderstood it. When I dropped out of high…
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Why I Think Weed Sucks
The problem with weed is that it gets into your head and starts making you ultra self-aware to the point where your sensitivity to social cues is literally tormenting. It…
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How Nice Guys Can Use The Sympathy Method to Get a Girl
The annoying things I hate about the person develop into the cute things I love about the person, and before I know it I lose all feeling of control, and…
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How To Make Money In London
i tried to comfort myself with these thoughts: i won’t get hurt because it doesn’t really make sense to think that will happen. most men want to have sex with…
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8 Films that Seemed Good When We Were Young and Impressionable
I happened upon Requiem for a Dream at the local video store, and I’m pretty sure I was filled with tears by the end. It was so damn sad the…
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How To Be A Freshman In College
The first few weeks of school will feel like summer camp. Everyone is just so open and ready to meet their future best friends. Leave your door open and play…
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What Ever Happened to the Actor Who Played Steve Urkel?
His earliest appearance on the first season of Family Matters in 1989 was supposed to be a one-time cameo, but his performance was a hit, and he became the true…
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Top 5 Child Celebrities Who Later Appeared Nude
Child celebrities are notorious for disappointing us once they become adults. But the following actresses have not only remained successful (with the exception of Molly Ringwald), but have also appeared…
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Why I (Now) Avoid Reading Haruki Murakami
Four years since my last Murakami book, I now see his books being read everywhere by everyone. His books have become a household item like a fork or spatula; they…
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Different Types of Music to Have Sex To
Best Coast’s Crazy For You is the perfect sex record for twee couples who aren’t actually that sexual. They just like to stare in each other’s eyes and play with…
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What The Characters From My So Called Life Are Doing Now
Brian Krakow. Hesitantly dated a mostly unsatisfying high school senior post-graduation and lost his virginity, but had to break up with her to pursue his rigorous and immediate program of…