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Sincerely, Sara: How to Deal with Bare Minimum Versus Low Effort
By Sara Kaufman Edited by Taylor Morgan Kylie Christensen / @k_chris10sen on Pinterest Do you ever feel like someone in your life is just “doing the least?” You most likely are not imagining it. But there’s a big difference between bare minimum and low effort, and knowing can save you a lot of frustration. So what does the bare minimum look like? The bare minimum is things like completing tasks, but never going above and beyond expectations. Or responding to messages or conv
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Nov 202 min read


Fears are Holding Us Back and Here's How We Can Face Them
By Maggie Carey Edited by Taylor Morgan Milica Andjusic / @andjusic_milica on Pinterest As we go through life as college students, we want to live fully and embrace all the opportunities that come our way. Oftentimes, though, there is an invisible barrier blocking us: fear. It may not always look like panic, but it is something that we might not even notice. It can come up as procrastination, overthinking or even that voice in the back of our heads that says “no, not yet.” We
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Nov 193 min read


Choosing Presence Over Performance
By Harper Sabin Edited by Taylor Morgan We don’t always have to be the character version of ourselves. Not every moment needs to be impressive. Not every day needs to feel like a chapter that pushes the plot forward. Sometimes, the most meaningful thing we can do for ourselves is not grand at all. It is simply being present, sitting and existing without trying to optimize or prove something. Angèle / @arterepos on Pinterest We have been conditioned to treat our lives as if th
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Nov 181 min read


The Pressure to Perform in the Age of Social Media
By Paige Auxier Edited by Taylor Morgan becauseofnyc / @becauseofnyc on Pinterest I find myself wasting a considerable amount of time considering how I’m perceived by others. I often feel as though I’m walking on eggshells as I go about the mere act of existing. It’s as if, at the turn of every corner, a new situation emerges, with a million-and-one opportunities for me to suffer personal failure in the form of saying too much, or too little, liking the wrong movies and books
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Nov 114 min read


Doing Things that Scare You is Important
By Sophia Masi Edited by Taylor Morgan 💐Rocio💐 / @hpthe on Pinterest Over the last few years, I have reworked my mindset on so many things. How I approach my everyday life and my habits. I feel like my brain is completely different from how it was when I started that process, and in a good way. One of the biggest things I have changed is doing things that scare me. It is better to try and fail than to never have tried at all. Failure is inevitable—in life, school, career
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Oct 313 min read


Scorpio Season and What it Says About You
By Tayler Nowak Edited by Taylor Morgan Betsy's / @betsyalvarezz on Pinterest 'Tis the season for one of our favorite signs, Scorpios. Whether this is where you fall on the zodiac scale or you are another sign, here's a guide to what Scorpios are like, who they pair well with and the reasoning behind our beloved Scorpios within the universe. Scorpio Personalties Without a doubt, if you are a born Scorpio, then you have an intense and ambitious personality that stems from the
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Oct 312 min read


Why Confidence Is Not About Being Perfect
By Leah Hoffman Edited by Taylor Morgan You know those days, or worse, those stretches of time, when nothing about yourself feels quite right? Sometimes a single thing throws you off, and other times everything seems to collide at once, leaving your confidence in pieces. I know for me, having clear skin is a huge trigger. I have always struggled with acne, and the moment I feel my skin starting to get worse, my self-esteem crumbles. It’s not just my skin, either; once I start
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Oct 302 min read


Rejecting Norms in Favor of Personal Expression
By Kennedy Stackowicz Edited by Taylor Morgan Yuliana Smug / @yulianabetinag on Pinterest It’s time to say goodbye to the “clean girls” and the “coastal grandmas” of the world. Gone are the days of all these aesthetics, and it could not have come soon enough. Before we all hopped on social media, we were what we wore: the bands on our t-shirts, the earrings we found on our favorite trips, the wears on our shoes—that’s us. For a little while, we got tripped up. We became uber
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Oct 272 min read


Taylor Swift: Closing the Curtain on her Life of a Showgirl
By Kaitlin McDowell Edited by Taylor Morgan If you’ve been anywhere on the internet in the past two weeks, you know that Taylor Swift released a new album. The 12-track album, “The Life of a Showgirl,” was met with love and adoration as well as disappointment and judgment. As Swift says herself, “haters gonna hate.” Stephen Mease / UNSPLASH After too many streams to count over the past two weeks, I have concluded for myself that this album is perfect and exactly what I had
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Oct 203 min read
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