Spring weekend has come and gone. Wyclef Jean’s surprise performance delightfully surprised us while Diddy simply let us down. But, as Dave Binder played his traditional hokey pokey to the enthusiastic crowd in Wriston, we realize just how fun a sunny-day-dance with all your friends can be.
It is a time in which we get nostalgic. We think back and remember how we’ve spent the last ones — old flings reappear, drunken mistakes creep back into our memories, and those moments we spent singing and dancing to some random band make our stomachs flip.
With the summer almost here (in other words, with the end of another school year upon us), it seems almost natural to evaluate the changes we’ve gone through in the past semester. Old relationships have fluctuated — some achieving an almost unthinkable degree of closeness while others fading — new ones have blossomed (some being the best discovery, some being completely and utterly toxic). We have changed as well, and perhaps we don’t realize just how much. Look back at who you were in January. Think of who you spent your time with, who you bared your soul to, who you kissed. Odds are the answers won’t match if you ask yourself the same questions today. Life is, dear readers, full of changes. And the sooner we embrace and savor that fact, the sooner we will be able to enjoy whatever comes our way.
In this issue, Julia, our guest columnist from McGill University, brings us a new perspective on ex-boyfriends and break ups. She is not your typical devastated damsel that wallows and eats chocolate after her relationship ended. Case Herzberg, a tennis player for Brown’s team, explores what it means to be a woman these days. We use her piece as our Campus Celebrity because in her piece she created a profile to which, we think, a lot of girls can relate to. The way she narrates her anxiety over food and her exploration of the media’s role in perpetuating this image describes a suffocating situation that shows us all just how dangerous the standards Hollywood sets for us really are. Learn from it and understand that valuing your health and emotional balance is much more important than an image that has most likely been photoshopped 25 times. So, readers, think back to who you were and who you are. Are the changes good or bad? Are there aspects you still need to change? Surely.
Luckily, we still have time and can learn from our mistakes.
HC Love,
Luisa & Haruka
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Brown chapter.