Don’t let your friends of all things be what’s stressing you out and causing issues. Even if it’s difficult or uncomfortable, weed out the bad friends in your life. In the end, it will improve your quality of life.
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Baylor’s 2025 United Way Campaign celebrates 100 years of United Way of Waco-McLennan County giving back to the McLennan County community. To celebrate and honor this accomplishment, the name for Baylor’s campaign this year is “100 for 100!” and the goal is to raise $100,000 among the Baylor community.
With less than 2 weeks until the presidential election, tensions are high across the country. A February 2024 Pew poll found that 65% of Americans are exhausted by politics and 55% are angry when they think about politics.
According to Title IX Education and Prevention Specialist Valerie Willis, more than 50% of sexual assaults on campus nationally are between the start of the fall semester and Thanksgiving break.
Instead of keeping with the trend of angrier and lonelier Americans, Brooks provided a guide to become an illuminator. In Brooks’ terms, illuminators are those people with a visible excitement to get to know and befriend someone.
If you find yourself scrolling through tarot readings on TikTok saying your ex is coming back… you might be struggling to cope.
“It’s a relationship, not a religion.” Or at least, so say the Christians of Generation Z, who are attempting to paint their faith in a less legalistic light than their predecessors. However, pretending to be a nonreligious Christian is disingenuous and oxymoronic.
If you choose to surround yourself with peers who don’t acknowledge self-growth or well-being, you most likely never will either. However, if you decide today that your peers are flattening the tires of your energy bus, new revelations will naturally come your way. Remember that good leaders are often surrounded by great people.
On their first day of class freshman year, Wiff Rudd, professor of trumpet and brass area coordinator, and his now-wife, Jeanette Rudd, had their picture taken on a Baylor swing by The Baylor Lariat. The next day, a Lariat print edition hit the stands, and much to their surprise, the cover featured their photo. They said it was a definitive moment for them, and on Wednesday — almost five decades to the day the original was taken — they recreated that same photo.
The last possibility is probably the worst, and that’s not saying or doing anything. Suddenly there’s a suitcase packed with what-ifs, and that kind of regret isn’t something anybody wants. It hurts more looking back and wondering what might have been if I were to say something and risk entering my name into the transfer portal if things went south.
This is an opportunity to observe those in your life who may be committing, perhaps on a smaller scale, similar actions, even if they aren’t cheating. Your significant other isn’t for gain; they’re for partnership.
If I established a friendship with you in which our dynamic was supporting each other, spending time together and talking all the time — and it was completely platonic — but you get into a relationship, why is it that suddenly the dynamic has to change because you have a partner who doesn’t understand it?
If you’re jealous of someone or something, you aren’t a bad person; you’re average. In fact, it’s even been reported as a positive thing in certain situations.
Let relationships come naturally. Prioritize improving yourself and your time commitments. Do not overburden yourself with what could be, but instead work on what is. Save yourself some time, energy and money, and take a step back to set your priorities in order. Don’t think every woman you flirt with is “the one.”