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Fall, food and family

For as long as I can remember, fall has been my favorite season. I love how the humidity of summer gives way to crisp, invigorating air.


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Buying wine as a gift

We have all been there, en route to a dinner party to meet the family of a significant other or to see loved ones for the holidays.


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Hoos' high roller

Second-year College student Matt Swoboda described playing poker as ?just one of my hobbies, not even my biggest one.? However, this hobby?s payout for Swoboda rivals the salaries of some top-paying jobs.


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A haunting task

With the end of October fast approaching, it seems appropriate to talk about something Halloween-related.


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Generation ex

Fact: Every boy who has ever dumped me has been hit by a car. No, I wasn?t driving the car, thank you very much.


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Love and the emancipation of Mimi

Though I have spent the past year dedicating 600 to 800 words on a biweekly basis to the subject of romantic love, it seems there is something to be said for the fact that love takes many forms.


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Post Secret

Whoever you are, scanning these lines, you have secrets ? experiences, facts about yourself and opinions you would never share openly with other humans.But what if you could share your secrets with a complete stranger?


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Going Immobile

This past summer, I studied abroad in France for five weeks. There was certainly a lot to love about the country, from the history to the


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Listen to your dog

With its placid blue skies and desirable mid-October temperatures, Fall Break proved to be the perfect time to run around outside, take a stroll through the park, or even read Ralph Waldo Emerson?s famous ?Them Trees Sure Is Purty!? to Sweetie under the comforting limbs of an old acorn-sputtering oak.Naturally, I did none of those things, instead opting to engage in such stimulating activities as watching re-runs of ?Clarissa Explains It All? and challenging my dog Phoebe to staring contests.


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On-Grounds Interviewing

On the fourth floor of Scott Stadium, the luxury skyboxes that typically house suite-holders at football games are also home to the On-Grounds Interviewing program, through which job opportunities can come a-knockin?.The program?s goal, according to Barbara Hampton, University associate director for employer services, is to consolidate the interview process for both employers and students by bringing them to a single location.


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Becoming financially fit

Most financial advisors sound like broken records. ?Save and diversify. Save and diversify…? They may throw in a stock tip or tax loophole, but for the most part, their advice is the same.


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Big dreams

Dreams Corps International is a non-profit organization that gives Chinese students a chance to experience life in rural China ? and the only collegiate chapter in the United States happens to be right here on Grounds.


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The art of manliness

It?s a question I get all the time ? ?Nick, how did you get to be so darned manly??The answer I give to people is never clear.


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The hinge of fate

Every fall, as the temperature drops to a brisk chill and the tips of the trees begin to caramelize, professors bombard their poor students with exams, papers, presentations and any other form of assessment to mark the halfway point of the semester.


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Between the lines

?You come in perplexed and you leave happy,? Writing Center tutor Paul Legault said about the services The Writing Center provides.


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Something new

I never thought I would ever be the type of person to rush a fraternity, but as of last week, I have found myself in new territory ? and loving it.


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Latest Podcast

Ahead of Lighting of the Lawn, Riley McNeill and Chelsea Huffman, co-chairs of the Lighting of the Lawn Committee and fourth-year College students, and Peter Mildrew, the president of the Hullabahoos and third-year Commerce student, discuss the festive tradition which brings the community together year after year. From planning the event to preparing performances, McNeil, Huffman and Mildrew elucidate how the light show has historically helped the community heal in the midst of hardship.