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I submit my first FFA ever, then I get called an elitist FFA submittor. Wow, that really escalated quickly...
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The blood center body calls me everyday, but I know they only want me for my body.
The tea at the British store on Mass is too expensive. Let's dump it in Potter Lake in protest.
To the hot girl whose car broke down in front of my house and whose car I pushed up the hill... I wanted those digits.
I'm not the only one who noticed the flags missing from Fraser! They also took down the American flag from Daisy Hill. What's going on?
Calling all Nerdfighters: join the University of Kansas Nerdfighters page on Facebook! DFTBA
If you'd bother to ready the parking emails, you'd know Park and Ride now stops at Daisy Hill.
Teachers need to stop meeting with students in the library. The public location is obviously not preventing tears or tantrums, so take it to your office or an empty classroom.
"I'd like a Dr. Pepper." "Is Mr. Pibb OK?" :'(
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Instead of a quest for meaning, we should be on a quest of niceing.
Shoutout to Kevin at Brela's in The Underground for being the nicest stranger I've met all semester!
On the rare occasion I go to E's for breakfast they undercook my eggs. Thanks E's for the half-cooked eggs.
The department of Parking and Transit is my sworn enemy. They're the Goldmember to my Austin Powers.
I'd totally be up for a KU nerdfighter group. DFTBA!
Do you ever worry that if you go into Wescoe, you'll never find your way back out?
Hey McCollum, it would be really cool if your elevators would stop falling. I have too much stuff to do I can't die this week.
Hey, look, it's Spring!... Wait, where are you going? Spring, come back!
I told my mom about my Buzzfeed quiz results and she listened to the whole thing, then said, "OK, now what's Buzzfeed?"
Getting rid of shampoo helps health, environment
HEALTH
Are you lazy? Financially strapped? Environmentally conscious? Constrained by time? We all are, in theory. It's time to join the "no poo" movement.It's very simple, you just gradually stop using shampoo.Instead of shampooing once or even twice daily,you shampoo once a week.For many reasons,shampooing daily is unnecessary and even unhealthy by some standards.
Our scalps produce much more sebum oil when we shampoo than if we did not shampoo. Because we strip our scalps of their natural oils, the scalp is
forced to produce more, creating a vicious cycle. Lorraine Massey, co-owner of DeVachan Salon in New York, said to NBC News. "When you over-shampoo your hair, your hair is over-secreting oil in order to survive."
Some of the chemicals used in household shampoos are not ideal to be repeatedly placing on our skin. You might presume that it's unhealthy to not shampoo. But Dr. Paradi Mirmirani, a dermatologist in Vallejo, Calif., said to NBC News it's a matter of choice, and that "there's nothing gross" or harmful about abandoning shampoo. Our ancestors did
without, and there are many people in the developing world who still do without.
The people who have participated in the "no poo" movement say the gains have been real. The "Today" show even hosted Jacquelyn Byers as a guest because she hasn't used shampoo in five years. Byers believes her hair to be "softer, less greasy, and a prettier color" since [she]
stopped using shampoo.
If you are into celebrity endorsements, in a March interview with Parade Magazine, Shailene Woodley said she only shampoo once a month. "But now [my hair's] really short, I only shampoo it like once a month. The oilier, the better."
Less money spent on shampoo. Less time lathering and rinsing in the shower. Less waste created by the packaging. Less effort altogether! There is, unfortunately, this period during weaning yourself off shampoo where your hair becomes very oily and unsavory. This is just part of the growing pains
that accompanies trying something new. If you'd like to start out gradually, begin with a baking soda mix and then graduate to a water-vinegar combination. It takes time for your scalp to produce less oil. But that's no reason not to try. Join me this month in not shampooing. Half of us won't even shower once finals season rolls around, so let's just start early!
Anrenee Reasor is a junior from Thayer studying economics and East Asian languages and culture.
Ryan's budget has negative effects for middle class
Recently, U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan released a new budget plan that would decrease $5 trillion in federal spending over the next decade, according to The Washington Post. His proposal plans to take a large chunk out of federal spending by targeting Obamacare, making huge cuts to Medicaid and several other health care programs, raising taxes on middle-class families and making several more cuts from education, food stamps and farm programs.
While some may perceive this as a reasonable plan, I was absolutely horrified when I found out what his budget was proposing. Trying to repeal Obamacare would kick millions off their new plans, diminishing the steps taken for health care reform. Medicaid is already facing a tough battle due to the 2012 U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing Medicaid to become an optional decision for states, leaving many people in an even more stressful situation.
In Florida, a woman named Charlene Dill recently made headlines because of Florida's decision not to expand Medicaid. Dill suffered a heart condition that required medication, and was able to afford her medication before the Supreme Court ruling. Due to Florida's decision not to expand Medicaid, Dill was unable to get health coverage because she did
not make enough money to qualify for Obamacare. Dill worked several low-income jobs, her most recent job was selling vacuums at Rainbow Vacuums. On March 21, Dill needed to add two extra appointments in order to make enough money to make it through the day for herself and her three children, and ended up collapsing and dying on a stranger's floor during the appointment, according to Orlando Weekly.
Students may not think issues like these matter to them because, well, we're students and doing homework and focusing on graduation is our biggest focus, right? However, these issues are extremely important, especially because we are a generation that is currently living through these issues and we will have to deal with these issues once we graduate, get jobs and have families. You may have friends or family who were affected by optional Medicaid expansion, or you may have friends or family who recently signed up for Obamacare.
Ryan's proposal on taxation targets middle-class families with children by increasing taxes "by an average of at least $2,000;
according to politicususa. com. The reason middle-class families could potentially see this raise in taxes is because Ryan wants to decrease taxes "for households with incomes over $1 million," meaning the rich would receive huge tax breaks while the middle class continues to decline.
If Obamacare were to be repealed, health care coverage costs would increase, affecting families and business, which in turn would be "eliminating coverage for the 3 million young adults who have gained coverage by staying on their parent's plan," according to politicususa. com.
This country already has an excruciatingly huge gap between the lower class and the wealthy. We have marginalized the lower to middle class in several different ways, and every time steps are made to make things more equal, we have people like Paul Ryan trying to take us down a notch, or five trillion notches. I cannot respect a country that has politicians aiming to make the rich richer, and the poor poorer. We need to stand against budget proposals like Ryan's because they directly affect us, whether we know it now or not.
Cecilia Cho is a junior from Overland Park studying journalism.
Test creates deeper self-understanding
There's a test that might tell you more about yourself than you know already.
It's called the Myers-Briggs Personality Assessment. It calculates a four letter type that explains your level of introversion or extraversion, how you process information, make decisions, and live your life. It's kind of like a real version of a horoscope.
There are 16 possible types. Being able to divide the thousands of students at KU into 16 personality types seems ridiculous, yet I can say from personal experience that it's strikingly accurate.
I researched into my type and learned incredible things about myself. It's funny, I've had my brain for 19 years but never really understood it until now.
I never considered questioning why I think or feel the ways I do because living is an inherently native process. It took this test for me to step outside of my brain and see it from an outside perspective.
In doing so, I became confident in my knowledge of who I am and what I want — no small feat. I'm now able to better apply myself. I realize what I should be doing to make myself happier and more successful. Especially in how I interact with other people.
By understanding my personality I've become much more understanding and accessible.
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I also discovered people do not think in the same ways. I knew that before, but prior to the test I never really had significant insight into how other people actually think. I could only judge others under the illumination of my own experiences.
No matter how close these friends and I were, the exposure of their (and my) inner thought processes created a new level of understanding.
That's why this test is so impactful. I've learned a lot about myself from attending college, but the dramatic change I've experienced from the test was unparalleled.
Take the test. There are free versions online, and a wealth of analysis across the internet. You'll only benefit from it.
The test has a great implication for benefiting interpersonal relationships. I also had many of my friends take the test and we all learned so much about each other.
Dalton Boehm is a freshman from Merriam studying journalism.
Would you ever try a hair cleaning routine that doesn't include shampoo or conditioner?
FFA OF THE DAY
To the person who's scholarship hall I frequently pee outside of: I perform better with an audience. See you Wednesday night.
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