Friday, April 19, 2024
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Make, don’t buy, your Valentine’s Day gifts this year!

Valentine's Day is coming up and finding a gift to buy for your partner is always challenging — try making one instead! You’ll save money and your significant other will feel extra touched by...

Under The Kilt: Breaking off toxic relationships

In high school, I was in a very toxic friendship with someone who I had considered my best friend. We were inseparable. We were childhood besties, and our friendship was going on 12 years...
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Get out of your head and get out there and live

I recently rewatched Netflix’s To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before. In the beginning of the movie, our protagonist Laura Jean Covey spends her time fantasizing about boys she has crushes on. Her younger...

Under the Kilt: life on your own

Martin Lopez / Highlander I'm from the city of San Bernardino, which is approximately 20 minutes away from Riverside depending on the traffic. My peers tend to be...
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Vintage Valentines

Love in the digital age is boring. Before the ebb of modern technology, people used to show each other their love with romantic and dramatic gestures. This year, bring back extravagant expressions of love,...

Under the kilt: letting go of friendships: how toxic is too toxic

Friends have lamented to me, “I’m so toxic!” during specific situations or in reference to certain people, so it’s easy to oversee these claims as simple dramatics or exaggeration. But whether it is a...
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Do I Have to Ask?

The season of love has arrived and for those in a relationship or just seeking someone to spend Valentine’s Day with, you might be stumped as to whether or not you should ask them...

Under the Kilt: Me first

Courtesy of Pexels There has to be a balance between what you do for others and what you do for yourself. We all have responsibilities to others and...

Under the Kilt: Coping with missing your family

I remember the first day after moving in. My mom and I had finally finished unpacking a bunch of stuff I didn't really need, and at around 7 p.m. that night, it was time...
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Under the kilt: Do we have to break up?

If one or both partners move, can their relationship last? I think yes. Distance doesn’t make a relationship more likely to fail; it just puts a relationship to the test and forces both partners...