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But, the beautiful part of living in this country is that everyone has a chance, in theory. And hopefully, we will do more to ensure that those whose dreams outweigh their means can actualize those chances.

9. Go to the bathroom together at parties.

Their music resonates not only because it is brutally honest but also because it is their own — not some Ryan Seacrest gloss-and-glimmer idea of what music should entail.

These will be the women who hold you up and keep you from falling even when you reach the lowest points that college has to offer. These will be the women you hold up and you keep from falling.

We all put our feet in our own mouths sometimes. It’s an inevitable part of being human (and therefore more flawed than a botched nose job) to blurt out words we don’t actually mean or don’t realize come across differently than we’d intended.

I wish that we could say something. I wish that we could express how angry or upset or annoyed these interactions make us. And I hope that some people, who are certainly braver than me, do say something.

Last week’s #darkbuzzfeed craze took over Twitter as users Tweeted ideas for lists that were more somber than Buzzfeed’s usual content. In honor of #darkbuzzfeed, here’s a list of the eleven worst kinds of experiences anyone can have — perhaps more gut-wrenchingly terrible (and certainly more #real) than world war, famine, or the government shutdown.

New Orleans, the city that many thought would drown in 2005 is now hurrying towards the finish line with a powerful breaststroke. Because we didn’t listen when others told us not to lose hope.