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	Christian’s column runs biweekly Fridays. He can be reached at c.hecht@cavalierdaily.com.
Life

Halftime

As my second year concludes, I find myself entering the final half of college and coming closer to the looming “real world.” Some find the leap from high school to college and the newfound freedom to be particularly jarring.


Life

Backhanded

If I’ve learned anything from the two short decades I’ve spent on this planet, it’s not to trust nice people.


	Kristen’s column runs biweekly Wednesdays. She can be reached at k.gunn@cavalierdaily.com.
Life

Name that field

You know that nice, triangular grassy patch where everyone picnics across the street from Bodo’s? Where Brooks Hall is?* It needs a name. The fact that I just had to use so many words to describe a place we go all the time is, if you ask any writer, English major or literary inclined person, an utter linguistic travesty.


	Kelly’s column runs biweekly on Tuesdays. She can be reached at k.seegers@cavalierdaily.com.
Life

An ode to only children

“Oh, you must be spoiled.” It’s a sentence I have heard frequently throughout my life. To most people, disclosing you are an only child is disclosing you are a brat.


	Grace’s column runs biweekly Fridays. She can be reached at g.muth@cavalierdaily.com.
Life

Living among beautiful people

120 polished and confident girls with shiny Pantene hair and clear smiles stare at me. I don’t recognize most of them, but they form a mass of perfection, of poise.


Life

Semi-famous faces

Walking to class the other day, I noticed a familiar looking man headed in my direction. Appearing to be in his 50s or so, he continued to approach me until he was close enough for me to confirm I did indeed recognize him.


Life

The dream decoder

As a child, dreams were like a game for me. I would wake up and immediately try to tell someone in the house what happened, only to find 30 seconds into my description that I was making up nonsense due to my lack of memory.


Life

Swimming upstream

I find myself picking up on the atmosphere we create more and more these days as I struggle to pull myself out of a strange whirlpool of stress.


	Avery’s column runs biweekly Wednesdays. She can be reached at a.moyler@cavalierdaily.com.
Life

Selfie zoo mislabeled as petting zoo

For those of you who are not aware, there was a Teeny Animal Farm in the amphitheater last week. No, that is not the name of the band you’ve never heard of but pretend you know to seem cool to your friends.


Life

Life isn't a BuzzFeed quiz

Thanks to BuzzFeed, I know more about myself than I ever thought I wanted to. I know which Olsen twin I would be, which character on Gilmore Girls I would date, even which 19th century writer most accurately matches my personality.


Life

A day of stress

I grew up in a house where Sunday was a sacred day reserved for church in the morning and inordinate amounts of food — and hopefully football — in the afternoon. Family dinner on Sunday was an indulgent affair.


Life

Don't rate my professor

“Good god! What a useless column,” I hear you exclaim as you read the subhead. “What bumbling idiot needs advice on refining his schedule? Ratemyprofessors.com is all anyone needs for success.”


Life

The son of York

I checked my email to find my multitude of attendance points had paid off in the form of a ticket. I then won another lottery — I’m an exceptional gambler — for a coveted spot on the Hoo Crew’s free round-trip bus ride and found myself heading to New York City.


Life

Finding your spirit animal

As I sat in Alderman this morning — scrolling through BuzzFeed and procrastinating (is that redundant?) — I came across an unpleasant surprise: a quiz titled, “Which Food Network Chef is Your Spirit Animal?”

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