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    • 58 Ratings
    • 5466 Views
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    Oral Roberts and Me

    DECEMBER 16, 2009 10:09AM

    By Gwendolyn Glover


    Topics: oral roberts, college, oru, prayer tower, praying hands, missionary, richard roberts, christian worldview, friendship, student life

    • Editor's Pick
    • 45 Ratings
    • 2716 Views
    • 57 Comments
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    Remembering London 1981

    FEBRUARY 25, 2011 3:49AM

    By Just Thinking...


    Topics: joe jackson, jumpin' jive, get up stand up, no woman no cry, sex pistols, sid vicious, kate middleton, prince william, lady diana, princess diana, prince charles, royal weddings, charles and diana, william and kate, fashion design, college, buckingham palace, st james park gate, dorms, textiles, fashion illustration, changing of the guard, buckingham palace, music, coming of age, adam and the ants, adam ant, bob marley, punks, college, bulimia, weddings, 1981

    • 39 Ratings
    • 492 Views
    • 46 Comments
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    Taco Tuesday

    MAY 1, 2013 8:28AM

    By Joan H.


    Topics: transitions, college, empty nest, parenting, marriage

    • 35 Ratings
    • 888 Views
    • 40 Comments
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    Do Your Parents Know?

    OCTOBER 28, 2009 2:31PM

    By fingerlakeswanderer


    Topics: family, education, college, wasted opportunities, intellectual curiosity, desires to find out, to know, history, books

    • 35 Ratings
    • 3259 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    Pieces of Kirksville

    MAY 15, 2009 3:48PM

    By Verbal Remedy AKA Denise


    Topics: tornado, college, lost friends, current events

    • 35 Ratings
    • 2579 Views
    • 63 Comments
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    The Thin Envelope

    FEBRUARY 4, 2009 1:46PM

    By CoyoteOldStyle


    Topics: college applications, college, rejection, high school, trauma, acceptance, family, self-worth, growth

    • 33 Ratings
    • 1501 Views
    • 45 Comments
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    Teach Your Sons

    JANUARY 18, 2013 12:50PM

    By Joan H.


    Topics: rape, sons, mothers and daughters, college, alcohol, it's not your fault

    • Editor's Pick
    • 33 Ratings
    • 4517 Views
    • 67 Comments
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    My Letter From Hell To My Annoying Student

    DECEMBER 26, 2008 8:01PM

    By Jason D. Hill


    Topics: college, students, education, belief and religion

    • 32 Ratings
    • 906 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    Thanks for the Mileage

    SEPTEMBER 12, 2010 11:22PM

    By Fetlock


    Topics: college, education, twenty years really is a lifetime, teaching

    • 32 Ratings
    • 19044 Views
    • 48 Comments
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    College: An Overpriced Monopoly

    NOVEMBER 20, 2008 10:00PM

    By Kent Pitman


    Topics: college, learning, reform, tuition, bargain, overpriced, escalation, acceleration, inflation, investment, do-it-yourself, lifelong learning, home schooling, mandatory public service, competition, accreditation, alternative, alternate sources, books, book learning, competency, exam, test, credit

    • Editor's Pick
    • 31 Ratings
    • 23799 Views
    • 62 Comments
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    Is Porn Changing the Way We Kiss?

    JANUARY 14, 2009 5:29PM

    By Susan Walsh


    Topics: sex, relationships, porn, women, kissing, college, open call

    • 30 Ratings
    • 1181 Views
    • 89 Comments
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    Teaching Our Sons

    MARCH 17, 2013 11:05AM

    By Joan H.


    Topics: steubenville ohio, alcohol, college, mothers and daughters, sons, rape

    • 28 Ratings
    • 686 Views
    • 22 Comments
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    The cereal eaters

    APRIL 11, 2012 7:44AM

    By Pensive Person


    Topics: true story, memory, college, dorm, winona, pizza, smurfs, radio, music, 1980s

    • 28 Ratings
    • 626 Views
    • 42 Comments
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    Pilgrim Learns of Women’s Solidarity—and That He’s No Lawyer

    MARCH 2, 2010 7:25AM

    By AtHomePilgrim


    Topics: memories, mother, mrs. p, college, once upon a time, sometimes you can't win, true story (except that i never wanted to be a lawyer anyway)

    • Editor's Pick
    • 27 Ratings
    • 3474 Views
    • 32 Comments
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    A Young Republican vs the Human Face of the Great Recession

    SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 2:42PM

    By Chauncey DeVega


    Topics: authoritarianism, homelessness, poverty, great recession, tea party, politics, teaching, education, college

    • Editor's Pick
    • 27 Ratings
    • 1220 Views
    • 30 Comments
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    The Mortifying Beginning to My Not-So-Brilliant Career

    MAY 4, 2011 7:52AM

    By AtHomePilgrim


    Topics: though it wasn't too funny at the time, humor, hoping for number two's case this is not a family curse, still not sure actually, things got better, starting out in life, not a verb but a noun, reject, reject, are you kidding, reject, reject, reject, job hunts, jobs, college, still crazy after all these years, bless my mother for i'm a fool, mortifying disclosures

    • 27 Ratings
    • 854 Views
    • 27 Comments
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    for starters

    AUGUST 27, 2010 12:24AM

    By Greg Correll


    Topics: family, college, daughters, love, starting, brave rocky, i love you roxanne rein correll

    • 26 Ratings
    • 1456 Views
    • 47 Comments
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    Hi Mom! I'm Home!

    MAY 17, 2011 9:11AM

    By Susie Lindau


    Topics: home, social media, environment, photo, photos, photography, mother and child, cleaning, moving, reddit, stubleupon, susie lindau, blogger, blogging, blog, open+call, party, dorms, college, shop vac, life, environment, humor, comedy, relationships, family

    • 26 Ratings
    • 1936 Views
    • 35 Comments
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    Dear Recently Departed Celebrity,

    JUNE 30, 2009 7:48PM

    By pretend_farmer


    Topics: most disco still sucks, real news anyone?, party, college, thriller, michael jackson, open call

    • Editor's Pick
    • 26 Ratings
    • 4689 Views
    • 13 Comments
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    My best pick-up line ever

    MARCH 14, 2009 4:08PM

    By Vac


    Topics: sex, college, comedy, girls, women, pick up

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