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The lifestyle page has a little bit of everything and could be considered “magazine-like.” Popular topics discussed on this page range from relationships, style guides, and aspects of student life all from a fresh and light perspective.

Living My Best Life: High Fives and Sex Drives

Written by Emma Grosskopf Let’s talk about sharing. This is a small school. It seems that everyone knows everyone here, and while that makes for...

Living My Best Life

Written by Emma Grosskopf Age is just a number, baby. God, I feel creepy just saying that. And is it even true? Especially in college, where...

Look Out, It’s Engagement and Wedding Season

Written by Kaelyn Spickler The temperatures and rising, the sun is shining (or at least trying to), and the flowers are blooming. With that comes,...

Spring Flings Are Canceled

Written by Kaelyn Spickler, Chris Harrison's Future Replacement COVID-19 has certainly flipped everyone’s world upside down. It has impacted so many things, and so many...

Living My Best Life: Scorpio Season Shaking It Up

Written by Emma Grosskopf Back when I was an impressionable youth, I believed that horoscopes were a nonsensical idea: that the stars and lunar energy...

What You’re Made Of

Written by Kaelyn Spickler Whether they be August 2019 graduates, December 2019 graduates, or May 2020 graduates, there will be 428 Roanoke College students eligible...

Snow Superstitions to Guarantee a Snow Day

Written by Zachary Dalton Winter is here- not officially, but the temperature has dropped and the air is certainly crisper. As the promise of snow...

A Playlist for Weekend Shenanigans

Written by Emma Grosskopf Have you ever wanted to be in a musical? For most of us, going out on the weekends is an EXPERIENCE....

Expand Your Online Vocabulary With New Twitter Lingo

Written by Shamira James As someone who is an active member of Stan Twitter (which sounds super cringey having to say it out loud), it...

Find Local Selfie Spots to Improve Your ‘Gram Game

Written by Shamira James We all know what it takes to make a good Instagram worthy pic - the caption, the filter, even the location...

Highway to the…FriendZone?

Written by Shamira James The friend zone. In a nutshell, it’s when someone feels like they had a shot with someone romantically, but it’s quickly...

Social Media Overload: Chains, Challenges, and Quizzes

Written by Kaelyn Spickler In the last week there has been an overload of social media posts, trends, and memes. For some, this may be...

Sebastian Salazar

All of the girls love him, all of the guys want to be him! Sophomore Sebastian Salazar, a business administration major originally from Lima,...

The Brackety-Ack Presents: Holiday Party Survival Guide

While many people are preparing for a holly, jolly holiday, college kids like us are panicking about our futures, and it doesn’t help when...

The Importance of Immediacy

Written by Madalyn Chapman, Coffee Connoisseur If COVID-19 has taught us anything, one of the most important things should be the importance of immediacy. College...

Living My Best Life: I Am Confusion

Written by Emma Grosskopf Being confused isn’t a new concept to me, okay? I took a stats class. I swear, something new confuses me every...

Wing Night VS College Night

Written by Emma Grosskopf and Aeryn McMurtry If it’s ever 10:45 p.m. on a Wednesday and you have an itch that only hot wings from...

22 Things… I Love and Will Miss from Roanoke College

Written by Kaelyn Spickler I am now a somewhat-freshly-22-year-old, and after a semester’s worth of eight lists with 22 bullet points, we have come to...

Oops, We Did It Again: Hookup Stories

Written by Emma Grosskopf “Someone called campo on us because the music we were using was too loud. Apparently it was loud enough to block...

Hi Shishters: Here’s the Basis for A Good Foundation

Written by Caisi Calandra Even though there’s technically not a specific age at which children can start playing with makeup, most start at a young...