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Ghostbusters!
I knew our football team would lose the second I got my hopes up.
I would be less concerned about Saturday night if I knew where these bite marks on my legs came from.
Not sure I'll ever understand the logic behind anonymously complaining about another anonymous person to a newspaper column.
RELATIONSHIPS
as the fountain'sad? It's looking pretty blue today.
I support your right to swagger, but could you do it faster?
I heard that the Potter Lake whale travels through campus using the pipes. Someone call Harper Potter.
Clearly I am going to call the Ghostbusters. There's no other logical choice.
If they were to name a hurricane "Umbridge" I would probably be worried about it all the way out here in Kansas.
The squirrels attacked my girlfriend's pumpkin over night but left mine alone. I was laughing, she was crying. SW
Can we stop saying "Chiefs" at the end of the national anthem now? It just sounds like sarcasm at this point.
sounds like sarcasm at this point.
"That's not really anything new... The band has yelled "noise" for the past two years.
Is it a compliment when a guy tells you he would like to make a replica of your ass for a pillow?
OK girls: just because we want to talk to you does NOT always mean we want to hook up with you. Get off your high horse.
Just saw a guy dressed as Slenderman on stilts. This is my nightmare.
What if we should get back together?
No one is immune from wondering, "What if?" Pretty much on a weekly basis, stories surface about celebrities who break up and make up in a cyclical fashion, with one of the most prominent examples being John Mayer and Jennifer Aniston. The pair shared an on-again, off-again relationship four years ago but finally called it quits after a number of breakups in late 2009, and Mayer was alleged to have seriously struggled with the aftermath. Still today, Mayer is no stranger to breaking up then making up, and lately he has reportedly been pretty cozy with Katy Perry.
Especially because of tabloids like People Magazine and Us Weekly Magazine, "average man" stories like Mayer and Aniston's come straight out of Island's all the time, and, as expected, they never seem to be relevant to us. But while the Golden Coast may seem like a world away, some couples on our own campus tend to follow suit in our own
I think if I splashed around in the Chi O fountain, I'd come out looking like a smurf.
If you want to storm the field go back in time two years and watch the Georgia game. Boom.
Even in the non-celebrity world, relationships deal with the same issues. Early last week I had a late lunch back home in Wichita with an old crush and senior prom date from high school. I had hardly seen him in the past year, but over my Caesar salad and his hummus, it was as if we rewound almost five years, talking like we were back together every day in German IV.
ever-changing relationships.
In high school I didn't try to pursue anything with him because he stayed back home for college while I left for Lawrence, and after a long-distance relationship from there to Flagstaff, Ariz., I desired something closer to home. So then after Prom ended, I half-lied and said I wasn't interested. And then that was it.
Even though he and I never dated or anything close, I still casually wondered the forbidden question, "What if?"
If we date once (or even did as little as prom dates) and want to rekindle the connection weeks,
months or even years later, what should we really consider if we're thinking about taking a chance with round two? When I went searching for the answer, Cosmopolitan Magazine UK and popular dating blog The Frisky offered plenty of words of wisdom. Here, I give you four of them.
more heartbreak in the end and can leave you with a lot more than you bargained for.
If the chemistry or your sex life when you finally broke up the first time wasn't exactly one for the ages, let it go. It's not like learning to fight — if you're still not getting it right after a month or two, it's probably not going to happen. Relationships without chemistry are doomed from the start, so cut your losses and forget it.
First, it sounds simple but can be hard to really believe when you're living in the moment: If you or the person you're trying to rekindle the relationship with is already in another, steer clear. The idea of getting someone back no matter what is exciting, but this kind of barrier frequently leads to
Ask your friends. Especially true for those friends who were there the first time, peers are not unbiased about how your old relationship looked on the outside. However, if they can still vouch for your ex even post-breakup, it may be worth it to try to bring the relationship back to life.
Finally, consider if you can really be at peace with your past so you can try again in the future. If you want to rekindle the relationship, there's inherently something you aren't over, but a grudge always needs to be laid to rest before
dating the second time. You can't cover up a grudge with a new relationship. With time it'll only rear its ugly head again.
Sober me; too sober to dance. Drunk me;
too drunk to dance.
But until that point, there's nothing wrong with trying again with something that was good, so never mind the recycled relationship naysavers and just let it ride.
Even though some relationships truly need to perish for the sake of everyone involved, some can be good enough to take a shot another time around. If you try to resuscitate it and it doesn't budge, though, let it die and move on for real.
The anti abortion campaign on Watson is the least convincing movement I have seen on campus.
You might be surprised with what you get the second time around.
Put your life on autopilot
LIFESTYLE
Rachel Keith is a graduate student in education from Wichita. Follow her on Twitter @Rachel UDKeith.
College can burn us out. Exams, classes, and papers all stacking up at the same time can be exhausting. It can be physically wearing, of course, but it is mainly mentally draining. And if you have ever stared at a computer screen, trying hard to do the homework you have due, but have found yourself dragged to Facebook or Youtube, you know what I am talking about.
When that sort of mental exhaustion happens, we cannot think creatively anymore. It feels like our capacity to decide is diminished, and that we are kind of powerless. But what has really happened? Has our will power left us?
By Arnobio Morelix amorelix@kansan.com
As weird as it sounds, turns out it is pretty much that. Scientist Roy Baumeister from Florida State University has shown that our mental power can quite literally abandon us. He calls it "ego depletion," and the way it works is actually fairly simple. We all have a certain level of mental energy to make our decisions throughout the day, and we use this mental energy for every conscious decision in our lives, from the most sophisticated and important to the most mundane. So, every time we decide on what to wear, what to eat, or whether we should or shouldn't check what is going on Facebook, our mental energy is being used. And the very same energy is the one you will use to make the more important
decisions of your life.
So how do we deal with it? There is a solution. Have you ever wondered how some people — from politicians, to artists, to executives — can accomplish so much more with the same 24 hours a day we all have? Putting their lives on autopilot is one of their secrets. They automate mundane activities, and save their mental energy for the really important ones.
According to Vanity Fair, President Obama himself said, "You'll see I wear only gray or blue suits. I'm trying to pare down decisions. I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make." In a similar fashion, Robert Pozen from the Harvard Business School defends the same principle: put things that are unimportant on autopilot, and save your mental energy for situations and people that really matter.
Of course, putting things on autopilot can be pretty easy for the president or for a Harvard executive. They can have a personal
assistant to do all the unimportant stuff for them. But how do we broke college students do it?
One of the ways of auto-piloting your daily activities is deciding the night before what will you eat for breakfast and what clothes you will wear for classes. Another way of saving your mental energy for important things is getting done most of the priority tasks on your to do list first before moving into less demanding or less important activities. Getting rid of energy draining distractions also help. For instance, I changed my Facebook password to a really complicated one that I do not know by heart, and I have to copy it from a text document in my flash drive when I want to login. Since then, I have been using it much less (once every two days, typically).
When I talk about putting life on autopilot I get some weird looks. It might sound like I am suggesting we all turn into robots that do not live life consciously. But, in fact, it is the exact opposite. Automating the mundane, unimportant aspects of our lives is a liberating exercise, and frees our minds and conscience to experience and live the important aspects of life fully.
Morelix is a junior majoring in business and economics from Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
CAMPUS CHIRPS BACK
SOCIAL MEDIA
More of the same was shown in the second debate. It was more of good old Romney saying a simple statement that basically blew up Twitter. When Romney was discussing the diversity of women in the workforce, specifically the search for qualified women to fill his cabinet when he was the governor of Massachusetts, he said, "I went to a number of women's groups and said, 'Can you help us find folks,' and they brought us whole binders full of women." The response over social media was comical. There were two main Twitter accounts started, both with the same title of "Romney's Binder," which gained upwards of 40,000 combined followers. Also, a fake Facebook account titled, "Binders Full of Women" was launched that currently stands at 352,000 likes. But the area of social media where Romney's comments really blew
In the first debate, the only thing the republican nominee had to say on the subject of cutting the deficit was Big Bird. In context, Mitt Romney was discussing how he would cut funding to PBS to help with the federal deficit. PBS, of course, houses the television show "Sesame Street," as well as the character Big Bird. Immediately after he said that he would fire Big Bird, a firestorm hit the Twitter and Facebook. According to USA Today, the firestorm on Twitter generated 17,000 tweets per minute during the debate. Also, Twitter mock accounts were started and as a result, caused the large yellow creature to make an appearance on "Saturday Night Live."
Twitter shows voter reactions immediately
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What is so awe-inspiring about these incidents is just how much the American people are drawn into this election, and it shows in the evidence of social media. In the first debate there was a record 10 million tweets, plus another 7.2 million tweets in the second debate. This shows you that we as people and especially this new generation of younger minds, are paying attention to the election. The only thing we can hope for is that the influx of social media will correlate to the polls, and as a result, go out and vote.
Phillippe is a senior majoring in American studies from Keller, Texas.
The fascinating thing about Twitter is its effect on live events. With all of the millions of users that are on Twitter, many Americans have the ability to be involved. They can follow their favorite tweeters and without even watching the event as it is on the air, can affect it by retweeting and sharing information that goes on. This is power, and it so amazing to see the technology created in America having a positive effect on the history and the future of our great nation.
No matter what your political affiliation is, we all can be sure that social media has helped define this presidential race. The debates are a prime example, where analysis by everyday people was given through the social media giant Twitter.
up was in the place of Internet memes. A Tumblr account sprung up that featured images that were inspired by the incident, including the now famous "Texts from Hillary" meme.
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