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  • The art of the screw | Cross Campus at Yale

    Screw season has once again settled over the campus. Love and awkwardness are in the air. Each year for a swathe of time in the fall, hundreds of Yalies funnel their creative energy into browsing ID photos on Yale Facebook and executing elaborate set-up schemes to help their suite-mates find a one, true screw date.…

  • I Have Reached The Promised Land (So I Say)

    I have reached the promised land. 146 pounds! However, that’s not the entire store or the promised land. The first thing that comes to mind is the biblical definition… you have to believe that… but there are many sides to that story and in no way is my definition biblical. God promised it to the…

  • Quote of the Day 3 November 2013 – Touched

    “- “Why don’t you like to be touched?” – “Because I’m fifty shades of fucked-up, Anastasia” — E.L. James (Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)) [NO!!! It’s just a quote. I have not read these books. I just have a problem with being touched. But not as much of a problem that it used to be…

  • Quote of the Day 2 November 2013 – Time

    We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom. We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values. We talk too much, love too seldom, and…

  • Word of the Day 1 November 2013 – Embarrassment

    THERE IS a valid argument AND unfortunate reason for today’s word. And there are other words that carry as much weight on a day like today. Today’s word is personal to me. Before I describe the nature of MY embarrassment, I feel first the need to identify the definition and usage of the word. em·bar·rass·ment…

  • Quote of the Day 1 November 2013 – Live

    “Life is one big road with lots of signs. So when you riding through the ruts, don’t complicate your mind. Flee from hate, mischief and jealousy. Don’t bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality. Wake Up and Live!” ? Bob Marley Related articles 5 Bob Marley Quotes to Live By! TO DO LIST FOR Bob…

  • Quote of the Day 31 October 2013 – If You

    “If you understand others you are smart. If you understand yourself you are illuminated. If you overcome others you are powerful. If you overcome yourself you have strength. If you know how to be satisfied you are rich. If you can act with vigor, you have a will. If you don’t lose your objectives you…

  • Quote of the Day 30 October 2013 – Sorrow and Desire

    “Go into yourself. Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depths of your heart; confess to yourself whether you would have to die if you were forbidden to write. This most of all: ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night:…

  • Quote of the Day 29 October 2013 – Fear

    “Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.” ? Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within Related articles Where Poems Come From, Part V: Discovery through process 21 Books That Will Teach You Something Important Tackling a Big Topic Writing…

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