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Top 3 Places to Avoid on Valentine’s Day if You’re Single

Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Tori Meschino
Her Campus Placeholder Avatar Ellyse Orndorff
This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at DePaul chapter.
As if midterms weren’t enough of a slap in the face, Valentine’s Day is here to give us single ladies a slap in the heart. My advice? Stay in. Have a girls’ night. Don’t go anywhere unless you want to see couples and PDA galore. If you do decide to venture out into the land of love and kisses, make sure to avoid these densely (Disclaimer: there is absolutely nothing wrong with being single. More power to you if you are because let’s be real: who needs other people? But seeing couples everywhere as a constant reminder sucks.)
 
 
1. Eataly
Unfortunately this new hotspot in town is going to be flooded with couples trying to imitate Lady & the Tramp. Blech.
 
2. Bakeries. As much as I love a Sweet Mandy B’s pick-me-up (especially when I’m feeling alone), there is no doubt in my mind there will be couples lining up out the door. Maybe I’ll save my cravings until Saturday when their Valentine’s specials are sure to be half-price.  
 
3. Movie Theatres. Valentine’s Day is like date night on steroids. And what’s the most popular date night spot? The movies. As great as Labor Day looks, I am not paying $10 to deal with spit-swappers. Not my style.
 
For all you ladies who do have dates, feel free to visit all the places on this list with your special someone. We’ll be sitting comfortably in our apartments with the two best men in our lives: Ben & Jerry.
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Tori Meschino is a lot of things with a lot of majors. She's a macaroni and cheese lover, a sorority woman, obsessed with Michael J. Fox, a binge-watcher, an editor-in-chief, the HerCDM president, a woman in tech, and a writer. She majors in Interactive and Social Media and Media and Cinema Studies, and minors in General Psychology (and a minor in Never Graduating). So basically she's everywhere. Oh, and she's one of the Campus Correspondents for Her Campus DePaul!
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Ellyse is the Founding President and Editor-in-Chief of the DePaul University branch of Her Campus. She is currently a senior studying Public Relations and Advertising. Ellyse is originally from the Chicago suburbs and loves spending her college career enjoying all that the city has to offer. In addition to Her Campus, Ellyse is also a member of Delta Gamma. She hopes to one day work in either public relations or event planning and to one day own her own business. In her free time, she enjoys shopping, spending time with friends, catching up on blogs, quoting movies like it’s her job, pinning for hours and working out.