To welcome you back from a winter break hopefully filled to the brim with holiday cheer and cookies, today begins with a fresh start. It’s officially 2012 and here we are after a three week break starting a new quarter of our freshman year. The beginning of a new quarter doesn’t seem like a big […]
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How to stay alive during dead week
Leila Durmaz is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily freshman columnist. When you think about it, Thanksgiving break is such a tease. We spend a few beautifully relaxing days at home, enjoying good — to say the least — homemade food, family and friends, and some Black Friday shopping (yes, I was one of those […]
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Thanksgiving break comes just in time
Leila Durmaz is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily freshman columnist. Freshman year is a time of firsts. The first time we’re separated from family and friends who we’re used to seeing and talking to everyday, the first time we’re paired with a complete stranger to live with, the (hopefully not) first time we have […]
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Fresh without the 15
Leila Durmaz is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily freshman columnist. As we prepared to leave for college, we endlessly heard the two words that none of us wanted to be true. We promised ourselves that once we got to college, we would come up with an exercise routine (and actually stick with it this […]
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Getting your college experience in the happiest city in America
Leila Durmaz is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily freshman columnist. It has been a little more than a month, and I still can’t believe that I go to school here. If you’ve been reading this column, you know that I basically say that statement in one form or another in almost every article, but […]
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Week 6: Time to take a breather
Leila Durmaz is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily freshman columnist. I think this past week has been the most stressful seven days I’ve had since coming to college. Luckily, I wasn’t stressed to the point where my eyes were pouring out tears after finding out about an assignment on the syllabus that I wasn’t […]
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How to choose between a social life, good grades and enough sleep
Leila Durmaz is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily freshman columnist. Who would ever think to complain about being surrounded by your friends literally every second of the day? As freshmen, we’ve already gone through so many adjustments: having to adapt to wearing slippers in the shower all the time, figuring out how and what […]
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Don't miss out: Get spirited away this week
Leila Durmaz is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily freshman columnist. I came from a high school with minimal school spirit. You know how some high schools have spirit weeks where every day has a theme such as “Twin Day” or “Disney Day,” and everyone dresses up to match the theme? Well, that wasn’t my […]
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Get out of the dorms and explore SLO
Leila Durmaz is a journalism freshman and Mustang Daily freshman columnist. The first week of classes will soon turn into the first month, the first quarter and, quickly, the first year of college. Is it just me, or does it already feel like it has been a month since our little freshmen selves moved in? It’s […]
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Stampeding into college
The transition to college, as you have all heard, is difficult. Freshmen have to adapt to a completely new schedule, campus and way of life. But in the midst of all this change, we have found how to have one of the best times of our lives. If you thought that nothing would top that […]