Stephanie Karina

Everyone else had already gone to bed, but we stayed up, sitting on the stoop in front of your apartment. It had started to drizzle, lightly.

11. They are allowed to do whatever they please on their birthday, and you are a Debra (which is worse than a simple Debbie Downer) if you say otherwise.

2. Your body will no longer be able to handle the vicious rise, rage, repeat cycle you put it through during the first couple of years in college.

Panama City Beach comes to life as much as it can during the month of April, when the crisp sea air starts to warm with the promise of summer right around the corner.

1. The two of you have broken up, gotten back together, broken up, and gotten back together so many times that you have lost count.

We will never be fully happy with ourselves if we go through the motions of life as if it were a competition. If we think about it in those terms, we will quickly learn that we aren’t ever going to be able to win.

3. No one is ever so handsome or so pretty that they are immune to social awkwardness.

9. If your friends don’t like him/her, figure out what it is that they see that you don’t.

What spurs sexualized physical contact without consent?

Though Rory Gilmore seriously dated three guys throughout the duration of Gilmore Girls, only two really stood a chance at winning her heart — Jess Mariano and Logan Huntzberger.

Janet Yellen is the most important person in the world economy.

A friend and I were walking to a class we had together the other day when some comment I made caused him to slow his steps, turn to me, and declare, “You are such a white girl.”

1. He is unafraid to tell it like it is — even when the truth stings and everyone else around you avoids it.

“It will exhaust you,” he added, matter-of-factly. “When you move here, you’ll see.”

Whenever a girl who could be a potential threat (read: all of them) posts on his Facebook profile, send a passive-aggressive like her way just so you can, you know, mark your territory via social media.

1. Sit around your best friend’s apartment together while she’s gone for the night and plot ways to prank her when she gets back.

It was more than half past two in the morning, and I had no idea how I was going to find my way home.

Whenever I buy Lunchables, I feel the pure, unadulterated joy of living simply — like, when I was 10 or 11 and begged my parents to let me bring these hearty, little treats to school.