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The media grossly pressures you into adopting certain standards of beauty that are unattainable, save for a few lucky souls who have won the genetic lottery.

“I’m still a vegetarian, you know. The breading is just, like, flour. This doesn’t negate my vegetarianism.”

David loaded his slingshot with pebbles and aimed it at Goliath’s head, hardly daring for anything short of a miracle. Surprising to all, the latter came crashing down in one fell swoop.

I’d heard about the Katniss-Peeta-Gail love triangle and consequently thought that the series was just a dystopian version of Twilight with less repressed sexuality and more little-kid fighting. Oh, how wrong I was.

For those of you who can’t wait to end the dry spell with new episodes, here’s a quiz to tide you over during the interim.

External validation is a double-edged sword, and it drew a little too much blood when I began to depend on it.

2. You love your friends a lot, but that love disappears momentarily on those days, depending on the teams that they champion.

“Try to remain minimally classy. We have to say hi to people before we start drinking.”

I went to summer camp with Eldo Kim, the Harvard student that officials arrested earlier this week for sending fake bomb threats to avoid a final exam.