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Charge your brain’s battery: Taking a nap is a smart, productive move for college students 

Yes, I know taking a nap feels wrong because you should be busy with school or “making the most” out of college. It feels like college is a constant competition between Google Calendar schedules, comparing who’s taking the hardest classes or who’s more booked and busy — so it can easily feel like taking a nap means you are lazy, not taking enough classes or not having enough club meetings. 

However, if you keep pushing yourself through the day on little fuel, you’re going to burnout and there will be catastrophic consequences on your health. Naps can actually be productive and help you become more creative.

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In defense of Hallmark Christmas movies: let me have my holiday cheese, OK?

Listen, we need to talk about Hallmark Christmas movies. Every year, they show up in their sparkly, low-budget glory, and every year, someone—probably wearing black turtlenecks and quoting The New Yorker—feels the need to trash them. 

Are they predictable? Of course. Are they cheesy? Duh. Do they make me feel like everything’s going to be OK, even if just for 90 minutes? You bet your Grinchy heart they do.

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Studying in the dark: Cal Poly student faces power shutoffs, extreme cold in Texas

When architecture sophomore Diana Fierro Gonzalez and her family first got an email that Texas was going to experience some cold weather, she said wasn’t worried. Cold snaps are common for a Texas winter. When the power shut off for supposed rolling power blackouts, she still wasn’t worried. But then, the power didn’t come back for almost a week. 

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