Thanksgiving Break is most likely everyone’s favorite break during the fall semester. You get to go home and reminisce with all your high school friends. That diet you’ve been on for the past month goes out the window, and you get to eat until you put yourself into a food coma. There’s no rush on homework and you can just lie in bed and Netflix to your heart’s content. To me that sounds like an ideally wonderful break, and totally stress-free.

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5 reasons we love fictional characters more than real people

We all have that one character who is honestly our best friend.

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Even Shonda Rhimes, winning creator and executive producer of the hit TV shows Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Scandal, How to Get Away with Murder, and The Catch agrees that relationships with fictional characters are real. In her book, The Year of Yes she states, "I have spent more time with Meredith and Christina then many of my actual friends...When you watched TV, even spending a full hour with Christina once a week, you were likely spending more time with her then you spent with most people in your life. That relationship was real."

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How to make the holidays more merry and bright!

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Why hello there December! It seems like we just had a holiday season, but here we are a year later starting a new one with our stomachs full and hearts overflowing with thankfulness. If you're anything like me and didn't realize just how close the holiday season was approaching, we need to perk our spirits up for the most wonderful time of the year! Fortunately you have someone on the nice list like myself who can help you out with tips and tricks to become more bright eyed and bushy tailed about this holiday season.

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Going to the gym and working out on a daily basis (with breaks once in awhile) has been a great way for me to feel good about myself. It is 100% more than just looking good. Especially after starting college and having the stress and anxiety of tests, assignments, and just figuring out my future, the gym at my school has definitely been a place of relief for me and I have numerous reasons of why everyone should push themselves to get to the gym when they can.

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Make yourself, give to others.

1. Candy filled ornaments or jars

2. Homemade cookies or fudge

3. Slipper Stuffers

4. Mason jar snow globes

5. Handmade soaps and bath bombs

It happens to all of us, the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas the catch up with you.

1. Finals are in less than two weeks. Yes, that’s right. Less than two weeks.

2. The pressure of learning while starting to study for your final exams starts to get to you.

3. Right when you get back, you’ll make a list of all your assignments, and the low key anxiety starts to settle in.

4. You try to have a social life, but you then realize how much work you actually have.

5. You start to look over your syllabi and start to question if you even retained any information from the semester?

6. You end up giving yourself a daily pep-talk telling yourself you can do it.

We all have that one character who is honestly our best friend.

1. They are always there

2. They are never fake

3. They open up and let us in

4. They are strong

5. They love hard

How to make the holidays more merry and bright!

1. Have a Christmas music jam out session.

2. Dig out the tacky Christmas sweaters.

3. Decorate a little bit!

4. Look up the 25 Days of Christmas movie schedule

5. Go out and see Christmas lights

6. Do a crafty Christmas project

7. Go Christmas shopping

8. Read Christmas stories

9. Go caroling

10. Make Christmas shaped cookies

11. Drink hot chocolate while reminiscing on Christmas memories with your family.

12. Play reindeer games

13. Spend as much time with your family as you can.

It's not just about physical looks

1. Just another place to study

2. Relief of stress

3. Feeling better about yourself

4. FREE

5. Get motivated

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