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FFA OF THE DAY How weird would it be if I joined in on every intimate hug between lovers I saw on campus?
Someone has a blue hammock by Potter Lake. I want to be their friend.
This weather makes me so active that I don't even know who I am anymore!
If you want more Jamie Dornan just watch The Fall. Great show.
*Les Mis music starts*
One midterm more...
Finally, places to study outside!!
When dependent clauses are used as independent clauses.
Condom Sense days freak me out and you can't win either way taking the condoms or saying no. #JudgementAllAround
Went to the gym today, and now I'm good for the next five years.
I could really go for some onion rings right meow. #starved
Saw a guy outside my apartment sitting in his truck bed drinkin' a beer, soakin' up the sun. You, sir, are living the life.
Time to get the golf clubs out!
Sure maintenance.enter my apartment while I’m showering.
NotAwkAtAll
Everybody I know is getting engaged, and I'm not sure if that's because I'm getting old or if it's because I'm the only one that is sane enough to not want that now.
Reallyyy trying to find the motivation to go to class tomorrow instead of skipping. :('
Suns out guns out? No
Carousels are just horse tornadoes.
"Don't worry, I'll hold your stuff.
You just worry about making friends." - Cargo Shorts
Is there anything more capitalist than a peanut with a top hat, cane and monocle selling you other peanuts to eat?
When the guy at Chipite can't close your burrito you know you did it right.
Relationships are mostly you apologizing for saying something hilarious.
Before you accept your post-graduation jobs, make sure there's a Chipotle nearby.
Going home every weekend is not healthy
Anissa Fritz
@anissafritzz
Home cooked meals,
free laundry
and a shower
you can actually stand in. Young adults do not appreciate these pleasures until they have traded their childhood bedrooms for college dormitories. Going home over break or for the occasional weekend helps puts things in perspective. You're reminded of where you come from and maybe even why you are in college in the first place. Going back to your roots is great, but staying planted there while in college is not.
Thirty-five percent of the University's students come from out of state, according to the University Handbook. These students don't always have the option of going home whenever they please. Those who live close to home have the choice to return home whenever they choose. However, what these students fail to realize is going home may hinder their college experience. College allows students to establish their identity and
figure out who they will one day become. This becomes a difficult task when you go back home to mom and dad every weekend.
After attending the University for almost two years, I've noticed a
some people have friends from home to turn to, a student will most likely lack a sense of belonging at the University if he or she returns home too often.
College allows students to jump out of the mold
"THOSE WHO LIVE CLOSE TO HOME HAVE THE CHOICE TO RETURN HOME WHENEVER THEY CHOOSE. WHAT THESE STUDENTS FAIL TO REALIZE IS GOING HOME MAY HINDER ONE'S COLLEGE EXPERIENCE."
trend from my peers that demonstrates going back home too often on weekends or weeknights damages one's social life.
During the week, students tend to be stressed with school or busy with extracurriculars. Social gatherings and activities often take place on the weekends.Many social connections are built during the weekend because homework, tests and other factors tend to take up a student's free time during the school week. While
they created in high school. This time gives us the chance to reinvent ourselves without judgment and the opportunity to meet new groups of people we may not have had access to before. Try to avoid going home every weekend and instead participate in the culture and lifestyle the University offers. You will end up having a better experience socially, as well as mentally.
Anissa Fritz is a sophomore from Dallas studying journalism and sociology
Rethink what you mean when you say 'I don't like to read'
Gabe Sprague
@SpragueGabe
Some avid book readers may have a friend who says, "I just don't like to read." The explanation tends to be that reading is boring, it makes him or her sleepy or he or she doesn't enjoy reading for class.
When put into this perspective, many people do not actually dislike reading — they dislike being told to read a subject that does not interest them. People must reconsider when they are using this phrase because it is untrue
how Facebook would look to a person who cannot read. There are tons of readings that are not just boring blocks of text. The article you're reading now, magazines, comic books, BuzzFeed articles — many of these are enjoyable to people who say they don't like to read. People should maybe reconsider the "I don't like to read" statement and alter it to "I don't like reading certain texts."
The ability to read also gives a person many opportunities. America has one of the highest literacy rates in the world at 99 percent, according to the
WHEN PEOPLE SAY THEY DON'T LIKE TO READ, THEY'RE IGNORING THE INSTANCES IN WHICH THEY DO LIKE TO READ."
and it ignores the benefits of reading.
People read all kinds of things, and when people say they don't enjoy reading, they are over-generalizing and not including every place or occurrence where words appear. This includes Facebook, textbooks, job descriptions or text messages from friends.
According to Daily Mail the average American spends 40 minutes a day on Facebook. Imagine
CIA's World Factbook. As the CIA also points out, low literacy rates "can impede the economic development of a country in the current rapidly changing technology-driven world."
As Americans, we are afforded many educational opportunities, but we can only make use of these opportunities through the ability to read. Illiterate people cannot be educated or acquire jobs. When people say they don't like
to read, they are stating they dislike the ability that allows them to make use of these benefits.
The ability to read also has some less obvious benefits. It allows people to communicate better, understand alternate viewpoints and communicate not only with people within their own social circles, but also with everyone who has ever written in their given language.
In a world becoming increasingly connected, the ability to interact effectively with other people is perhaps one of the greatest assets literacy provides us.
when people say they don't like to read, they are ignoring the instances in which they do like to read. They are ignoring how many opportunities are provided to them because of literacy and how reading helps a person communicate more effectively.
I am not trying to insult people who say they don't like to read; however, individuals should provide a clarification to this statement, taking into account the opportunities and benefits that literacy provides.
Gabe Sprague is a junior from Concordia studying English
JAYHAWKS ON THE BOULEVARD DO YOU THINK GOING HOME EVERY WEEKEND IS HEALTHY FOR A STUDENTS' COLLEGE DEVELOPMENT?
HAYLEY KREBS, FRESHMAN, DENVER
"I would say that it's healthy in moderation, like every couple of weeks, to maybe go home, but for the most part I think it's important to stay in college for the social aspect and be involved with your peers. Even if you have to get studying done, it's easier to get it done here than at home. To feel more attached to your school you have to be here."
NICK LAUTERBACH, SOPHOMORE, DOWNERS GROVE, ILL.
"I think part of college is learning to gain responsibility and live life on your own, so I personally think, coming from an out-of-state student's perspective, that staying on campus rather than going home is more beneficial when it comes to gaining responsibility and growing up."
HANNAH WILSON, SOPHOMORE, TOPEKA
"The point of attending a university of this size is to be away from your parents for the first time, and the whole college experience is about learning about who you are as a person and how to be on your own, and if you go home every weekend you miss out on making those friends and hanging out with them."
MITCHELL BROWNING, JUNIOR, WELBORN, COLO
"I think going home every weekend kind of takes away from the college experience, just because I feel like they are relying too much on their parents and end up missing out on some of the fun that happens on the weekends."
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