All glittered up and running on zero rational-decision-making skills, we headed to the start line. We told ourselves that we would be running at a nice and easy “party pace.” 

Learning how to live with who you become despite the painful events that occurred to you is no easy feat, and one that may take years, but that time will come. Letting the boulder get smaller and smaller doesn’t mean you are forgetting what happened; it just means you are growing because of it.

To me, dinner parties are the epitome of Adult. After hosting a couple of dinner parties last year, these get-togethers have quickly become some of my favorite college memories and are the perfect opportunity to get a group together, celebrate, and get to know each other better.

At this point, the extent of our combined football knowledge was that Travis Kelce is on the Chiefs, and that’s about it. So appropriately, Ella named our team the Taylor Swift Fan Club. 

On Friday, Sept. 19, around 50 hot air balloons lit their burners as night fell over Forest Park. The short bursts of fire caused the balloons to cast multicolored light over the dark field.

Energy was high as students walked to the Brookings Quadrangle with their residential colleges, yelling spirit chants, connecting with other students, and kicking off their first year at convocation on Saturday night, Aug. 23.

As WashU students, most of us have dozens of other things going on in our lives, and organizing is usually the last priority. Keeping your space tidy doesn’t have to take hours of your life every week. These are easy tips on how to get your sh*t organized (and actually keep it that way).

You are the one who went through it. You survived. And you are still surviving.

To please or not to please?  Is it actually a choice, or are we really just conditioned to be people-pleasers by those who want to reap the rewards? 

Be uncomfortable. Be angry. This is not just an abstract concept we commemorate with a month of the year dedicated to awareness; they are real stories and real people you interact with every single day.