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Small talk standards

Show Some Skin | Tuesday, April 17, 2018

“Hi! What’s your name? Where are you from? What’s your major? Which dorm do you live in? Ah me, too! Which section do you live in?” During the first week of my freshman year, I had been repeating this typical Notre Dame introduction. It felt natural to have conversations like this with new people. When

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Cut the chitchat

Lucy Collins | Thursday, September 29, 2016

“What did you do last weekend?” “Did you guys go out last night?” “What’s your dorm/major/hometown?” Questions like these are plenty abundant around campus. They are often used to ease tension at parties where the music may not be quite loud enough, to catch up with that random person you chose to sit next to

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Small talk is the worst

Andrea Vale | Friday, September 16, 2016

For years during high school, my all-time favorite thing to do with friends was drive. It still is, but it’s a hard past time to keep up when my beloved thrice-handed-down Camry, full of my perfectly crafted mix CDs, is back in Massachusetts, and I’m car-less and stranded in the Midwest. But weekend after weekend,