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Trevor how in the fuck are you taking care of a 16 yr old

I haven't been taking care of her at all! She's very self-sufficient.

We've made quite the quarters together in the antecedent hours.

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Find the clues or die when Escape Room hits theaters on January 4 via Columbia Pictures. Broke Horror Fan is giving readers in the Boston area another opportunity to see it early - and for free!

Join me at an advanced screening of Escape Room at AMC Boston Common in Boston, MA on Wednesday, January 2, at 8:00 pm. Simply click the image above and follow the instructions to download two complimentary passes. Seating is first-come, first-served, so be sure to arrive early.

What better way to prepare for the psychological thriller than by attempting an actual escape room? Right before the screening, I'll be doing just that down the street at Trapology. Be sure to follow Broke Horror Fan on Twitter and Instagram for updates.

Escape Room is directed by Adam Robitel (The Taking of Deborah Logan, Insidious: The Last Key) and written by Bragi F. Schut (Season of the Witch) and Maria Melnik (American Gods). Taylor Russell, Logan Miller, Deborah Ann Woll, Jay Ellis, Tyler Labine, Nik Dodani, and Yorick van Wageningen star.

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Teamwork Makes the Dream Work

There are a lot of old sayings that reinforce the fact that teams are stronger than a single individual. Actually, I can only think of, “Two minds are better than one,” and, “There is no I in team”.

If you’re sports fan, you watched the most beloved New England team take home yet another Superbowl title. Coming up from a 28 point deficit in the 4th quarter, the New England Patriots did their job and scored 31 points unanswered, leading to the first ever Superbowl overtime, and ultimately leading to a New England victory.

That’s about as much as I know about sports though.

In other exciting weekend news, I went to Trapology Boston to do an escape room with my puzzle enthusiast roommates. Games are for 10 people, and there are only 4 of us. If you are fond of math, you may be realizing that this means we were paired with 6 random people. We, the self proclaimed queens of cryptic riddles, were worried random teammates would hold us back or cause us to fail the room. We got super lucky though and loved the group we were working with, and don’t worry, we escaped.

In school, and in *real life* you are always going to have to work with people that you don’t know. You are going to have to find a common ground and build from there. And then you are going to have to work these people to form bonds and cheer each other on to victory!

At the most basic level, is this not how friendship works? You are thrown in a situation not knowing everyone and you form “a team” (even two people are a team, just sayin’). of course, you may not follow the outline of a standard team, but if you stretch it you could make some parallels. Instead of victory, your end goal might be to have fun or to comfort one another.

Then we have school where group projects seem inevitable. Many people complain about group projects because we all know that sometimes you get that group member that won’t do anything. On the flip side, sometimes you get an all-star team. I personally really like group work because for me, it lets my strengths shine. And I really believe an essential skill is learning how to work with people who may not think or act the same as you. I had an engineering professor who made us take Myers-Briggs personality tests and then assigned our groups based on opposite types so we could hone this skill. I am asked so many times in coop interviews to describe a time I had to work with a team mate who was difficult, so I guess those experiences are good too.

A quick shout out for sports, even though I never really participated in any. Sports teams are like families and the team needs to work like a well oiled machine. Of course, one player might be the large driving gear, but that gear would not be able to move without a tiny, unnoticed gear, spinning furiously in the background. Sorry, I got caught up in an engineering analogy-- can you tell now that I never played sports? Here, let me try again. In volleyball, not everyone can be the Ace. It’s the other players jobs to let the ace shine and breakthrough, and then it’s the Ace’s job to let their teammates shine as well. Everything from the set, to the block, to the decoy, to the spike...every position and every player matters. It’s all vital and that is what defines a team.

And of course, the impending doom of real life. Oh, I’m kidding about the doom part, it’s really quite fun. When you get your first job, whether it be through Northeastern’s co-op program or through your own adult volition, you will most likely not be working alone. If I, as a programmer, had a team, I should hope you do too (bad software stereotype jokes eyyy). Usually you can choose a company based off a vibe, a culture, a feel, and usually the employees will also fit this mold. But you can’t guarantee that everyone in your work will mesh with your personality, and the tough luck is you are going to need how to work and collaborate with them. The company chose you because they believed you can further their growth, don’t let one person you don’t like stop you from doing that. I mean, unless it’s your boss and you’re miserable...but if that happens come back and we can chat.

Some honorable mentions for team work include:

1. RPGS and MMORPGS - Whether it be you building your own team on an RPG (rip my time to Fire Emblem Heroes) or playing with people from around the globe on an MMORPG, it’s still teamwork. You need to figure out how to best play to each others strengths and weaknesses to ensure success on an end goal.

2. Music ensembles - Music ensembles are phenomenal because you have a whole section to lean on and learn from. You notes matter and can be heard, but you have plenty of people ready to teach you and cheer you on so you can move up the ranks.

3. Really any competitive activity- My shout out was for sports but I was on a FIRST robotics team in high school. Note the word *team*, so it’s pretty much the same deal as sports. We had teams for the different components of our robot and we then worked together to bring it to competition.

4. Really any activity involving many people - Teams do NOT have to be competitive, which is why I think friendships and teams are akin in nature. Teams, by my definition, just have to strive for a similar goal together. It doesn’t have to be win or lose, but just collaborative.

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Just like every children’s TV show will tell you, if you work together, ANYTHING can happen! Alright, so maybe not everything, but you can become much stronger than if you were just working by yourself.

That’s not to say that there aren’t some things that are good solo, and some people truly work better in different environments and that’s fine. But just know if you ever need to take a fall, the team’s got your back.