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    Southern Miss: The Hattiesburg vibe is real. Here's why I love it. 🦅

    I'm a junior at University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg, and I feel like we're the state's best-kept secret. Everyone flocks to Ole Miss or State, but USM has its own thing going on, and it's pretty great. The campus is beautiful. It's not as "classic southern" as Oxford, but it's...
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    How to get over the fear of someone reading my personal, emotional essays?

    I'm in a creative nonfiction workshop class, and for our final portfolio, we have to write a deeply personal piece. I chose to write about something that actually happened to me—a really difficult family situation that I've never really talked about openly. The writing part was actually...
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    How much "fluff" is too much? Struggling to meet the word count without losing quality.

    I need help. I'm staring at a 2,500-word paper that's due in two days. I have all my research, my argument is solid... but I'm at 2,000 words and my brain is just empty. I know I could pad it out. I could add a few extra adjectives here, repeat my thesis in a slightly different way there, maybe...
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    Why does every informative essay have to be so boring and can i make mine not suck?

    Let's be real for a second. When the professor announces the next assignment is an informative essay, doesn't a tiny part of your soul just die? To me, the phrase "informative essay" immediately conjures up images of dustry library books, monotone presentations, and falling asleep mid-paragraph...

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