Bridging the Gap
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Editor’s Note: New year, same me
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With each passing year, I’ve always set impossible standards and “resolutions” for myself to meet in order to improve myself. Inevitably, these resolutions have been too broad and grand so that I can never accomplish them for more than a month or a few weeks at a time. I’ve typically seen this as a failure,…
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Bridging the Gap’s Speak Up series comes to an end for the 2018-2019 year
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On Wednesday, March 20, Bridging the Gap hosted their final “Speak Up” series event of the year, an event that advocates for mental health initiatives to continue throughout the year — and not just on national campaign days. The event concludes a year-long event, where Bridging the Gap gathered students and mental professionals to talk…
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You shouldn’t mourn people while they are still alive
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I’ve always had this philosophy that you shouldn’t mourn people while they’re alive. It seems like a pretty obvious concept, but the amount of times I’ve seen my friends and members of my family severely distraught baffles me. That’s not to say people can’t have emotions – I lack a majority of the key ones…
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Editorial: Changing old habits and mastering new skills
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The differences between high school me and university me are plentiful, but I think the most profound one may be my newfound organizational skills, on more than one level. I used to be a messy person, although I’m sure my roommates might have a hard time believing this. My bedroom was always in a state…
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