Kailey Krantz | Staff Writer Seeing everyone around you in love this Valentine’s Day can sting when you’re single, but it shouldn’t keep us from celebrating the day. Many of us associate Valentine’s Day with romance. Especially when we’re surrounded by love songs, rom-coms, teddy bears, heart-shaped balloons and large bouquets of roses. In fact, […]
Mia Petruccelli/Contributing Writer Throughout our college years, we rarely find ourselves completely alone. Between class meetings, roommates, partners and hanging out with friends, it is easy to forget about spending time with the most important person: yourself. Your relationship with yourself is the longest and most important relationship you will have in your life, so […]
Denitsa Raichkova/Contributing Writer As a hopeless romantic, I cannot help but admire Valentine’s Day and its significance. The modern holiday originates from the Roman festival of Lupercalia and celebrates love around the world. Legend has it that St. Valentine, a Roman priest during the third century, paid with his life for preaching love. After Emperor […]
Samantha Garcia/Staff Writer Last Valentine’s Day I loved him. The year before I loved her. This year, I will love me. Valentine’s Day is an infamous celebration in which we strive to make other people happy by buying them luxuries that we think will make them love us more. We fall into the consumer society […]
Brea Jones/ Staff Writer Social media has a way of distorting everything. The latest victim of this trend is self-love. Self-love is more than taking bubble baths or buying yourself that gift you wanted. This practice requires hard work and long looks in the mirror for self-reflection. Until people begin to face the truth; the […]
