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things you should totes not view as positive portrayals of love/romance:

the great gatsby

romeo & juliet

the phantom of the opera

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snape

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50 shades of grey

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Ted Mosby’s pursuit of Robin from How I Met Your Mother Ross Geller’s obsession with Rachel Green on Friends

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TWILIGHT

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agree with everything but snape. his love was so pure

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Amazing posters from the Australian Human Rights Commission’s “Know the Line” campaign which aims to prevent and reduce the harm of sexual harassment in Australian workplaces.

Check their page out at https://knowtheline.humanrights.gov.au/

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oh my god, the accuracy.

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Abandoned 123 year old school

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Classical pianist and YouTube sensation Yuja Wang is making her Celebrity Series of Boston debut on Friday night, and there is some debate in the classical world about whether or not the dresses she wears make for proper attire.

What do you think? Should it matter what a classical pianist wears while performing?

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Plays Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 3, aka Rach 3, one of the most difficult songs to play in the world, the notes on the sheet music is described as being so dense it looks like a phonebook.

World shits itself because of what she’s wearing.

The world would rip a woman to shreds over her socks before daring to acknowledge her accomplishments.

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that comment right there.

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My unsolicited advice to freshmen/freshwomen as a senior graduating

You will more than likely not have the same friends freshman year as you do senior year. Because freshman year you are still a youth- you will grow into your own and find those to support you along the way.

Your major isn’t a life sentence. So you realize halfway through junior seminar biology isn’t for you, tough it out. Go to grad school pick something else. Get a job in an office building work your way up the corporate ladder. You’ll figure it out. My friend was a religion major with minor in math and she opened up a bakery.

Skip that class and go on an unexpected roadtrip. Don’t abuse this! Grades are important. Friendships and your sanity are equally as important.

Know your professors on a mentor level. They’re awesome human beings with 40+ years of advice to give you. Use it.

Volunteer. I don’t care that it’s 6:30am on a Saturday, go do something for your community. It might even lead you into a career you hadn’t expected you wanted.

BACK UP YOUR FILES.

Learn to love coffee or tea or some type of caffeine substance that isn’t a heart attack in a tin can.

All-nighters are going to happen, get a good playlist.

Go to the events on your campus. They’re normally free and make you cultured.

Plan for your inevitable procrastination.

Go to the gym. I don’t care if the whole entire soccer team is running 8 miles beside you on the treadmills, go.

EAT ALL THE MEALS YOU CAN IN THE DINING HALL. It’s essentially free food that you don’t have to cook. CHERISH IT. Even if you just eat bagels for the next four years of your life for dinner.

You’re going to be broke. You’re going to overdraft. You’re going to have to take out a loan from the bank or your parents. BUT WHATEVER YOU DO DO NOT GET A CREDIT CARD. Contrary to popular belief it is real money.

You’re going to ignore my previous advice and get a credit card. The second you pay it off (which will take you 4 years to figure out how to do) cut it up.

"But it’s for emergencies only." instead of using money you don’t have on a plastic card. Save up money into a savings account for emergencies-because it’s money you have.

Buy ready to eat snacks. Carry food with you everywhere. You’re going to be swamped and tempted skip some meals these come in handy.

Learn the art of writing letters. Old people (like your beautiful parents/grand parents who raised you and are paying for your education) love them.

That one weekend trip home to see your family instead of going on a day trip to the beach isn’t going to kill you.

Get drunk (when you’re of age naturally). I mean full on so southern you sound like boomhower, you have to crawl to the bathroom because you can’t walk, the opening theme song to star trek makes you sob-drunk. & make someone film it. It’ll teach you a very valuable lesson in life, that 4 shots of rum & 1 of whiskey will in fact kill you the next day. Also don’t do it in Applebees.

Hydrate. Hydrate when you’re drinking. Hydrate when you’re sober. Hydrate when you’re hung over. Just drink the damn water.

Tell your parents about all the dumb crap you do.Tell them about the one shot too many. Tell them that you drove on the wrong side of the road because you were driving to the QT at 3am. Tell them that you failed a test because you stayed up all night watching 3 seasons of Community. Believe it or not, even if your parents are the most wholesome human beings on the planet they are humans. They delight in your pain, because they know experiencing it for yourself is something only you can teach yourself.

Become friends with your friends’ parents. You can never have to many mom or dad figures in your life.

You are not an adult until you start keeping track of your finances. You’re just not.

One day homework will not be a thing for you (unless you’re going to be a teacher). Use this as incentive to get a degree.

Don’t try to have a million friends. That’s a lot of bridesmaids dresses and gifts to pay for. No but really. Remember quality over quantity.

Learn how to do semi-adult things alone. Ie: going to the bank, going through the drive-thru, going to the doctor.

If you don’t wanna clean your room then don’t. You better damn well make sure you at least have some kind of a system to make sure you never lose your keys, id, wallet, agenda, and homework though.

Eat fast food and ramen. There will come a time in your mid to late twenties where you will not be able to digest this delicacy anymore. Cherish it while you can.

USE YOUR LIBRARY. The library doesn’t have roommates or tv’s to distract you when you need to get stuff done. Plus they have wifi, sometimes they have awesome quaint study rooms, and an abundance of information at you fingertips (and tv shows to check out aka. free netflix)

Don’t turn in a crap paper. Ask for an extension be brutally honest. I once told a teacher that it was half dollar pint night at our local bar and I didn’t understand that the size of my cup was a pint and I had 4 of them. She moved classed to start at 11:30 instead of 11. If this doesn’t work and they don’t give you an extension, THEN turn in your crappy paper.

Have a day of the month or the week where you literally sit on your bed and do nothing. It’s good for the soul.

If you find yourself color coding your to do list. Go get a soft-pretzel because the chances are you are having what is known as the mid-term or final exam melt down.

Soft-pretzels, hush puppies, chili-cheese fries will not magically make your life get together. But it will help you accept your failure and the fact that your life is not together, and that’s honestly priceless.

Bragging about the Dean’s List or your GPA is best done in face to face conversations and not over social media. Unless it’s twitter, because nobody reads your twitter.

Take pictures. No one on Facebook cares about your road trip to go see some weird Shakespeare play, but you’re gonna care later on in life.

Pay your own phone bill. That’ll teach you to budget.

Allow your self a couple of dumb purchases and don’t regret them. How often do I use my TARDIS Christmas Lights? Never, but it sure made me happy the first 6 days after buying them.

If school is ruining your personal happiness to the point where you would rather accept death than finish your semester-genuinely, quit school for a couple of months. School really isn’t for everyone, and your happiness is more important than a piece of paper with some words on it.

Also just a bit of drinking advice, you’re never as drunk as you think you are until you stand up or try to go to the bathroom. Any idea you have after having alcohol, and you’re currently sitting on a porcelain throne (or a port a jon in a sketch restaurant in Mississippi) IS NOT A GOOD ONE. Examples include giving a random guy your phone number and saying call me maybe.

Get your drunk text on, it’ll show you who your real friends are.

22 doesn’t feel anything like a Taylor Swift song. It feels sad and depressing, because the lion king came out 20 years ago and 5th graders where literally born around the same time 9/11 happened.

If you’re going to have sex, be smart. Also learn to be an adult and not be embarrassed by buying your own condoms. Would you rather have a screaming infant (that you’re not emotionally, financially, or mentally prepared for) or dirty looks from someone buying pads?

These next four years are literally going to fly by whether you are miserable or happy. So be a little bit of both to get the full spectrum experience.

#helpful advice for all four years