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The benefits of smiling

According to The Washington Post it takes only 13 muscles to smile but 33 to frown. Let's go over some reasons you should turn that frown upside down. Smiling not only sends a message to other people...

Seasonal Affective Disorder - SAD

Although it has gone by names over the years - SAD, Winter Blues, Winter Depression, there is no doubting the existence of Seasonal Affective Disorder. As the daylight hours get shorter you may find yourself feeling more tired, withdrawn, run...

Dorm room relations

As a college student you are often just lumped together with other people to be your roommates. It is very important to have open lines of communication between roomies. If you're sharing a small dorm room and...

Going back to school as an adult

Whether you're going back to get your GED or your PHD, returning to school for the first time after a while can be scary. If you haven't been to school in years chances are that you haven...

Internet friendships

Are internet friends also real life friends? You chat with them often, exchange blog comments, you share your highs and lows on a day to day basis, they happen to be living breathing human beings with a screen name...

Growing a friendship

So you've made a new friend. What now? Usually it's some sort of common interest that brought you two together. The trick to maintaining the friendship and allowing it to grow and blossom is finding...

Making friends

Humans are social creatures. We are born with family, but we need friends too. Making new friends is exciting, scary, and very rewarding. Why stop as an adult? There's always room for jello more friends...

Friends for life

Making new friends can be scary, but when it comes down to it keeping them is the hard part. How many times have you had a falling out with a friend followed by decomposition of the friendship? It...

Hierarchy of needs

In the year 1943 the psychologist Abraham Maslow published a paper titled, "A theory of Human Motivation," in which he proposed this Hierarchy of Needs, which is a psychological theory widely in use today. There are 5...

Mourning Michael Jackson

The odds are that if you are old enough to read these words then you have heard Michael Jackson's music. This means that he has affected you in at least some small way. Today we begin to...

The benefits of smiling

Seasonal Affective Disorder - SAD

Dorm room relations

Going back to school as an adult

Internet friendships

Growing a friendship

Making friends

Friends for life

Hierarchy of needs

Mourning Michael Jackson

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