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Being A 'Mean Girl' Is So 2009, So It's Time To Stop

As Eeyore once said, "A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference."

University of Mississippi

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Being A 'Mean Girl' Is So 2009, So It's Time To Stop

Look, I get it. Girls can be mean sometimes. Whoever is reading this right now, I know that you've done something not-so-kind before. We all have. Speaking for myself, I've definitely done things I'm not proud of. It's just a part of being human. However, there is a line between doing something mean and being a mean person. And honestly, the latter needs to stop.

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New Year

What To Bring Into 2019 And What To Leave In 2018

Happy New Year to all and to all a new mindset and better life.

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What To Bring Into 2019 And What To Leave In 2018

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The holiday season has finally come to a close and another year is behind us. It cathartic, a lot of people feel the new year will bring a whole new life for them. As cliche as that sounds it really can! But do any of us really know how to capitalize on that optimism? Probably not. We're all trying our hardest and could always use some help!

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Student Life

8 Times 'Mean Girls' Described Apartment Living in College

A "Mean Girls" tribute to the lows of entering and living the apartment lifestyle for the first time as a college student.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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8 Times 'Mean Girls' Described Apartment Living in College

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Firstly, I would like to stress the comforts of living in a dorm.

You're in constant contact with people. For instance, you have a person just a wall or an arm-length away from you. There is noise during the day which is a comfort when you're alone in your own unit, and it's completely quiet at night due to quiet hours so there's no reason to not get a good night's sleep. You and one other person share AC so there's only one other person you need to compromise with. Oh, and there is food ready to be eaten and thrown away without any guilt when you're living in a dorm. With dorms, there is a fixed rate and a payment plan made by your parents so there's less stress about due dates on your part.

Despite these dorm life luxuries, people choose to live in apartments

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Pop Culture

How To Make Ur Own Ari-Inspired Burn Book

We all know Regina is the burn book queen, but here's how to make a burn book to match Ariana Grande's.

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How To Make Ur Own Ari-Inspired Burn Book

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If you didn't figure it out by now, "thank u, next" is taking the charts by storm. At writing, the video is currently up to 125 million views and is not stopping anytime soon. In the video, Ari captures all of our little girlhood dreams by channeling Regina George, Elle Woods, the girls from "Bring It On" and even Jenna Rink.

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Entertainment

20 Moments From Ariana Grande's 'thank u, next' Music Video That Made Me Scream 'THANK U, YES'

"THANK YOU NEXT, BITCH" — Kris Jenner

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Less than 24 hours ago Ariana Grande managed to break the internet. Not Kim Kardashian, Paper magazine cover break the internet.

But Ariana is our queen and deserves to be protected at all costs break the internet. She dropped the music video for 'Thank U, next', which I have been waiting for since she dropped the the surprise hit weeks ago. This song not only become the break up anthem of the year, maybe even our lifetime. The music video 100% lived up to every piece of hype that it had.

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Health and Wellness

23 Of Your Favorite Quotes, On Standby

No one memorizes quotes in 2018, that's ridiculous.

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I'm sure you have been asked once or twice in your life what your favorite quote is. Be it for your high school yearbook or just in general conversation, one always feels the need to make the quote as groundbreaking as possible. However, no one really knows any quote except the ones that have been said over and over again since the beginning of time. If you're looking for a brand new favorite, perhaps here would be a good place to start.

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As Eeyore once said, "A little consideration, a little thought for others, makes all the difference."

Happy New Year to all and to all a new mindset and better life.

A "Mean Girls" tribute to the lows of entering and living the apartment lifestyle for the first time as a college student.

1. You get that one new 'roommate' who doesn't pay for rent.

2. Somehow you're Gretchen Wieners citing your own backstab

3. Somebody becomes the Regina George of temperature

4. You need that car whether you like it or not.

5. You have to choose between the roommate in sweatpants or the one in jeans.

6. Not so sweet candy grams from the office

7. Karen Smith of cleaning.

8. Good ol' Mrs. George

We all know Regina is the burn book queen, but here's how to make a burn book to match Ariana Grande's.

"THANK YOU NEXT, BITCH" — Kris Jenner

Miranda Sings and her real life baby bump

When she brought in the originals from 'Mean Girls'

When she touched base on her broken engagement with Pete

THE BURN BOOK

'HUUUGGGGEEEE' Written under Pete's page

'Sry I dipped'

The iconic Christmas dance from 'Mean Girls'

The Queen herself....KRIS JENNER

The "Bring It On' reference with her 'Victorious' cast mate

Ariana in the wedding dress

Ariana with short hair

The '13 Going On 30' reference

Pulling up in her Porsche with her dog

Channeling full 'Legally Blonde' while studying her dog

PAULETTE

"It was really big"

"I've only gone out with one guy that had a big front tooth"

THE BEND AND SNAP

BDE instead of UPS

Kris Jenner saying the iconic last words 'Thank u, next b***h'

No one memorizes quotes in 2018, that's ridiculous.

1. "There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for." —JRR Tolkien ("The Two Towers")

2. "Get busy living or get busy dying." —Stephen King ("Different Seasons")

3. "DON'T PANIC." —Douglas Adams ("The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy")

4. "It's no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then." —Lewis Carroll ("Alice's Adventures in Wonderland")

5. "If we wait until we're ready, we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives." —Lemony Snicket ("The Ersatz Elevator")

6. "The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." —Sylvia Plath ("The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath")

7. "If you're making mistakes it means you're out there doing something." —Neil Gaiman ("Make Good Art")

8. "To define is to limit." —Oscar Wilde ("The Picture Of Dorian Gray") (Good yearbook quote, can confirm.)

9. "Some infinities are bigger than other infinities." —John Green ("The Fault in Our Stars")

10. "It is never too late to be wise." —Daniel Defoe ("Robinson Crusoe")

11. "Anything worth dying for is certainly worth living for." —Joseph Heller ("Catch-22")

12. "I'll hold on to the world tight someday. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning." —Ray Bradbury ("Fahrenheit 451")

13. "Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as understood." —George Orwell ("1984")

14. "We live as we dream—alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully." —Joseph Conrad ("Heart Of Darkness")

15. "I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life." —F. Scott Fitzgerald ("The Great Gatsby")

16. "Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what." —Harper Lee ("To Kill A Mockingbird")

17. "How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world." —Anne Frank ("The Diary Of A Young Girl")

18. "Fight till the last gasp." —William Shakespeare ("Henry VI")

19. "As long as the heart beats, as long as body and soul keep together, I cannot admit that any creature endowed with a will has need to despair of life." —Jules Verne ("Journey to the Center of the Earth")

20. "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." —John Milton ("Paradise Lost")

21. "I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I'll go to it laughing." —Herman Melville ("Moby Dick")

22. "Logic may indeed be unshakable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live." —Franz Kafka ("The Trial")

23. "It's better to look at the sky than live there." —Truman Capote ("Breakfast At Tiffany's")

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