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With top-tier customer service and drinks that just hit the spot, the new Dutch Bros in Waco will soon be where you spend all your time and money.

One of the most common phrases I hear regularly — and am also guilty of saying when bumping into peers throughout campus — is, “We should get lunch sometime.” As these conversations come to a close, we can stop talking without making false promises.

Reboots, remakes and sequels are Hollywood’s bread and butter. Forty years ago, most of the movies topping the box office were originals, but now, most of the films on top every year are related to some already existing property or franchise.

Gabby Petito isn’t the only woman to have gone missing this year. Is this social media taking a knack at solving a complex 21st century murder mystery? Why is she gaining attention while others are left in the dark?

Baylor has been a school with a great capacity for hospitality; it’s just a matter of making its current students a priority.

People need to stop saying their pets are service, therapy or comfort animals out of convenience to bring them wherever they want.

Baylor needs to reconsider its missed testing protocols to determine whether it’s actually helping students or causing more issues.

I’ll be the first to say that perfectionism makes no legitimate sense. It’s unnecessary and — in a lot of cases — unattainable. For some reason, though, it’s impossible for me to move my goal post closer to reality. That’s the problem with perfectionism: you can’t just “turn it off.” It lives with you. It affects every task that’s set before you, whether that task is big or small. It drains you in more ways than one.

Reading has become a forced activity, but was it always this way?

You’re telling me that if I do poorly on a standardized test, I’m not intelligent?

I am here to tell you not to listen to the apartments and houses that emphasize that you need to sign in January. Trust me, you have time.

The line becomes kind of blurred when we start seeing influencers as the ones who know everything, but really, they know just as much as we do, and they may just make it look more pleasing to the eye.

Going to the bathroom is something everyone experiences, so why do some of the bathrooms on campus feel as though no one goes in there?

Organize a to-do list. Note your priorities, and block off time to complete them. I’ve found timetable blocking and scheduling to be very therapeutic for an expert procrastinator like myself.

Usually, when I need an energy boost, I have a lot of schoolwork and not enough stamina and motivation to get it done. But with Celsius, I can accomplish things and get them finished, and I believe it’s incredible how the drink also allows my body to burn fat.

You will feel less homesick if you make yourself at home. My biggest tip is to incorporate small aspects of where you’re from and allow yourself to love where you are. It won’t last forever.

Whether you live 50 miles or 500 miles from home, it can be all too easy to take the “out of sight, out of mind” approach when it comes to your relationships. Maybe you have time constraints or maybe you just plain forget, and there may always be a reason not to call home. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t.

No amount of money or material things will bring genuine happiness.

Ten million men and women suffer from domestic violence each year. Many young people think they have a good grasp on healthy relationships, but abusive behaviors are often common, discreet and highly rationalized. Coming up in October, Domestic Violence Awareness Month, there’s no better time to get educated on a critical topic for our generation.

Attending an event where the cost of a full table is $275,000 with an economic justice message plastered on the back of an expensive, fancy dress while rubbing elbows with society’s elite is, at best, a bad look politically — but, at worst, it is an exposure of a deep character flaw.

As a student from Canada, I know it may not seem that I have as many difficulties as students who are traveling across the sea. However, that is not actually the case, as every international student must go through the same processes to travel.

When people think of tarot cards, most think of psychics telling the future. No one believes in what they truly do. They’re a Halloween activity that adds to the spookiness of the season. However, to people’s disbelief, they do not predict your future. The truth is nothing really can, but tarot cards can be wonderful tools that can offer you spiritual guidance when you need it, and they certainly aren’t demonic.

“If experience has told us anything in the workplace, it’s told us that businesses that don’t change or evolve simply die,” Dan Hunter, chief editor of Authority Tattoo, said. “It seems that change is coming, and that change is coming from the bottom.”

Go ahead: reject me. It’s more of a blessing for me and a loss for you.

For many people, this is a difficult topic to discuss, but it is important to address it, as suicide is the second leading cause of death among 13- to 19-year-olds. This year, Baylor did not take the time to address National Suicide Prevention Week in a manner that would have been beneficial to people who may be struggling.

Kanye West is a successful rap artist; however, that doesn’t necessarily make him a great rapper.

As the sun provides more than enough energy, Baylor should go the extra step and utilize that opportunity to transition into solar power.

For those who fear they may have girl-bossed a bit too close to the sun.

Ultimately, it is up to you when you choose to study, but as a senior who has stayed up late, woke up early and missed a test or two, I can definitively say that staying up late is the best form of studying.

The city that never sleeps was buzzing with anticipation for the coming day; no one was expecting the horrors that lay in wait.