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Mary's columns run biweekly Thursdays. She can be reached at m.long@cavalierdaily.com.
Life

Love like the movies

I must be watching too many movies. Or reading too many books. You listen to enough stories, and after a while you start to think life works similarly to the stories you’ve been listening to.


Vega's column runs biweekly Tuesdays. She can be reached at v.bharadwaj@cavalierdaily.com. 
Life

Ditching the dining hall

I can’t forget the simultaneous power and frustration I felt over my stockpiles of Plus Dollars, resulting in a continual catch-22 of needing to get rid of them but not wanting to consume the extra gummy worms.


Life

Fictional friends

We all have a few favorite fictional worlds. While I prefer to repeatedly stroll the streets of Star’s Hollow with Lorelai and Rory, my mother would rather follow the students of Hogwarts around the corridors of the castle.


Life

Love that spans oceans

My family lives approximately 9,746 miles away from me, yet my parents have this magical way of making me feel loved over the oceans and continents standing between us.


Life

Do it with(out) passion!

With a steaming bowl of ramen in my lap, I’m currently staring blankly at my computer screen as I grapple with my worst enemy – writer’s block.


Life

Spontaneously special

Both the game and my knee took a very wrong turn, and half of the valiant, and still winless, Cheesemakers found themselves sitting in the emergency room.


Life

One week with meditation

When I told my mom about my plan on the phone, she laughed quietly and implied that the idea of me sitting still for more than 30 seconds is a bit of a pipe dream. 


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