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By Maddie Brown and Maggie Shields | October 1, 2015

Stressed for finals? Still haven’t achieved that hot spring break bod? DON’T FRET!!!! Come to Maddie and Maggie’s aerobics dance class!!!! 5:00 Judge Basement Study Room. IT’S FREE!

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Sam's Little Larks

By Sam Van Wetter | October 1, 2015

And what does that even mean? Being a “brother?” Is everyone pretending that you’re actually siblings? Like, did you all pop out of the same womb? And is the house the womb? Does that make your fraternity your mother? Who’s the father? Are you each other’s father?

Campus rapper Marcus "Ill Fayze" Reid '18 became famous for his rap "The McLaughlin Anthem."
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Teach Me How to Rap

By Sam Forstner | October 1, 2015

Just like any performance art, freestyle — and more generally, rapping — requires a combination of innate talent and learned skill.

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Sam's Little Larks

By Sam Van Wetter | September 24, 2015

SCENE: Reed 105. S--T TOGETHER SAM is neatly seated with a notebook and pencil. A KAF beverage steams in his eco-friendly, washable and reusable BPA-free mug.

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What Would Your Parents Say?

By Sydney House | September 24, 2015

We all adjust and grow at different rates, but it’s undeniable that each student’s unique upbringing plays a significant role in how they adapt to his or her new environment. After all, for many of us, our parents were the ones who spent 18 years grooming us to be responsible, trustworthy adults. Not all parents are created equally, however, and some will play much more active roles in the lives of their children than others.

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A Ring by Spring

By Caroline Berens | September 24, 2015

Before walking into The Mirror’s weekly story assignment meeting last week, the so-called “M.R.S. Degree” was a completely unfamiliar concept to me. The meaning wasn’t exactly hard to discern after an introduction to the idea from my editors and a few context clues, but even then I was confused — does such a thing still exist in our seemingly modern and progressive times?

First-generation student Yadira Torres '19 is figuring out how to transition to college.
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First in the Family

By Julianna Docking | September 24, 2015

I sat down with several first-generation students and, predictably, found that there was no universal answer to this question. Instead, I heard students’ remarkably distinct stories, with common threads woven throughout, detailing parents’ sacrifices, students’ motivation to achieve and the mutual desire in both parents and students to understand each other’s divergent experiences.

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Sam's Little Larks

By Sam Van Wetter | September 17, 2015

SCENE: Collis porch. 9:39 a.m. The first day of classes. Sept. 10, 2012 and Sept. 16, 2015 simultaneously. PRESENT SAM sits reading the Valley News and eating a bomb-ass breakfast sandwich. PROTO SAM enters with a bottle of orange juice and cup of frozen fruit from the smoothie bar. It’s not what he intended to get. His backpack is unzipped.

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Joe Kind, A Guy

By Joe Kind | September 17, 2015

Drake is a prophet. We all know this. In some respects, though, he fails to describe my life well. I didn’t start in the six with my woes, but to his credit, the pace of my life has sped up considerably since starting college — probably not quite 0 to 100, but maybe from cruise control to slightly above the speed limit?

Alexander Lopez ‘15 took an unconventional path before his fifth year and shares his tips.
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TTLG: Fifteen Lessons From a Fifth-year '15

By Alexander Lopez | September 17, 2015

I still have a lot to learn, I’ve been around the world and I still can’t answer a simple question — how do I want to live my one and only life? I can’t tell you how to live, either. What I can do is share some stories and tell you what I’ve learned. With that, here are my 15 life lessons from a fifth-year ’15.

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