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We all know what the food pyramid is supposed to look like. You got your six to 11 servings of bread, cereal, rice and pasta at the bottom, then 3 to 5 servings of veggies, 2 to 4 servings of fruits, 2 to 3 servings of meat, poultry, fish, and beans, then 2 to 3 of milk, yogurt and cheese, and at the top of the pyramid are your oils, fats and sweets and that you are to “use sparingly.”
Pretty much all of us had to do it at least once. We packed up everything we had — everything that we would need to be real adults — and moved into a dorm. When you check out your soon-to-be-college for the first time, everyone says how great dorms are. They’re so convenient, you’ll get to meet so many people, yadda yadda yadda. But rest assured: Those of you who are high maintenance (or are high maintenance and don’t want to admit it) will wither away in a dorm. Here’s why.
From Grog to Cantina to Fat Daddy’s to Gator City you are bound to bump into some interesting people in Midtown. Every weekend, oh-so-magical Midtown becomes flooded with the students of UF who are just trying to blow off some steam from their hard week of partyi — I mean, studying.
For those of us in our twenties, being in college, grad school or starting actual grown up jobs seemed cool when you were younger. When you were still in high school or even middle school, you dreamed of being older and not having anyone to tell you what to do. Once you first start out in college, you think it’s cool to be on your own and do whatever you want, whenever you want. And then, slowly but surely, the truth about adulthood sets in and becomes the stuff of nightmares. You realize … Oh hell … I want to be a kid again. Here are some of the things we miss.
Let me count the ways in which you’ve changed, Miley.
Spring Break: a time to rest (sleep about two hours a night, since you are partying all day, everyday), relax (throw back about 10 shots of tequila and wait as your body and mind fall into giddy numbness), and let your hair down (let your hair down, your top off, and your pants off, because things are about to get weird). It may be for just one week, but it is probably the single best week you’ll have all year, and boy will you be sad to watch it go. Now that reality is about to settle in and you have to start going back to school, work, or whatever other obligations you have, you may start thinking of anything … Anything at all that you would rather do than be an adult again.
Don’t lie. You know you’re obsessed with House of Cards. To be honest, it would be impossible not to be. The show is fantastic, the cinematography is amazing, the plot and drama are to die for and the characters are complex, mysterious, and just overall phenomenal. The most intricate, memorizing character of them all is obviously Francis Underwood, the majority whip turned vice president who charmed and quite honestly scared us into loving him. Let’s take a minute to go over why we would want someone like good old Frank on our side.
You are lying in your hospital bed. It is a struggle to move. You look down at your battered body and you know that you are lucky to even be alive. A nurse opens the door to let you know that your parents are here to see you and they come running into your hospital room, clamoring over you and showering you with hugs and kisses.
Everyone knows (well at least girls know) that on your twenty-first birthday you are supposed to go out on the town and do all the “craziest” dares that your friends could think of. You have all seen it, the birthday kid with a sign around their neck with dares like, “Get 21 phone numbers” or “Take a birthday cake shot” or “ Do a body shot with a stranger”. I understand that now you are 21 you want to show off the fact that you are having your first (legal) drinks, but come on people! Let’s get creative and do actual crazy dares!
Everyone knows the struggle of picking classes. It can be a very stressful time making sure you get the classes you need and making sure you are not failing college and whatnot. Since this dreaded time is upon on us, here are a few tips for surviving it.
When you think of college the first thing that comes to mind is frat parties, drinking, and club hopping all night (or until 2 a.m. when all the clubs close). Yea, college is like that sometimes, but there are also projects, term papers, quizzes and reading… lots and lots of reading. When midterms and finals comes around, the only thing you want to do is just lay in your bed all day long, almost comatose, and watch Netflix like it’s your job. It is times like that when you wish you could just be in Kindergarten again.
Whether you celebrate by going to a ton of costume parties or you like to just sit around all day and gorge yourself on candy, you have to do something for Halloween because it is only the bestest holiday ever. One the best ways that you can celebrate Halloween is to turn off all the lights, get out the junk food and watch horror movies all night long. Out of all of the horror movies you can watch, here are some of the must see classics.
Telling scary stories is one thing, watching a few scary movies is another deal, but if you are really into putting yourself right in the middle of blood, guts and terror than you are either a serial killer in the making… or you would really like Halloween Horror Nights! For about 7 hours you can walk through Universal Studios and have the cap scared out of you through various scare zones and themed houses. If you are brave enough to try it out, here are a few things you might want to consider bringing:
What makes a man attractive? Depending on whom you ask, it could anything from tall and lean or super built and bulky to super pale or really dark to a full beard or clean-shaven. Whether you look like Fabio or Steve Urkel, there are 4 “womanly” characteristics that all men should have to make them attractive to pretty much any woman alive.
If you are the stereotypical college student that I know you are, than I am sure that you spend a few nights a month out at the club shaking you ass to songs from the Top 40 list.
Loans have dropped and like the good student that you are supposed to be, you should go out and use it to buy books and school supplies or put it aside and use it to repay debts that you will accumulate throughout your college career. However, you and I both know that you are not a good student and you are going to use that loan money to buy anything but school supplies.
OK, I get it, there are tons of people out there who are die-hard Miley Cyrus fans but her latest song and video, "We Can’t Stop," has some factors that I can’t help but find…questionable to say the least. Yes she is getting older, I know, and she is probably trying to break from the old Hannah Montana good girl bit but recently the best word that I can use to define her is ratchet. Let’s take a minute to go over the enigma that is the single “We Can’t Stop.”
Waltzing, Tango, Salsa…dancing can be a way for many people to relax, have fun, or let out any stress that they may have built up. It can be a way to express yourself without saying one word. However, there are some dances crazes that are a lot less like dance and more like convulsing or epileptic seizures.
Throughout cinematic time, movies have been made that made people want to laugh, cry or scream. They had deep plots, character development, amazing scores, and taught us lessons about life, love, friendship and whatever else. Since Hollywood is a money-guzzling machine, directors there try to squeeze out every cent that they can from movies that have already come out. Movies that were already amazing and successful in their own right are taken, and beat up by these uncreative big guys in their Hollywood offices and made into the garbage you see today.
Birthdays are the one day of the year that you can say or do whatever you want and everyone pretty much has no choice but to let you do it because that day is all about you and everyone just wants you to happy.
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