#13227 Being an international student, I have a group of comfort friends that are from home. We speak the same language, enjoy the same food, and share a similar sense of humour. Yet, I wish to make more domestic friends, because I don't want to fall into this comforting familiarity and spend my four years at Purdue cooping myself up and not leaving my comfort zone. My friends always subtly berate me for trying to not spend time with them and they always give me this subtle judgemental look when I tell them I won't be joining them for some events. Now, they have completely stopped inviting me to events, study group sessions, and whenever I asked them where are they going out for lunch/dinner, they either ignore me or say, 'oh, don't you have to go somewhere with your American friends?' I really want to make as many friends as possible, but also don't want to lose this group. What should I do? :(

#13226 Today I saw the military appreciation day Purdue helmet and literally fell in love with them. Does anybody know if they'll be sold as a collector's item?

#13225 Two Steps from Hell is quintessential for any type of motivational or workout playlist.

#13224 I never thought my life would end up like this. I didn't think I would lose the one I cared so much about, barely be passing in some of my classes, just going through the motions not really living life, and feeling so alone even in the midst of so many people. Honestly, I have never experienced so much emotional pain at any point in my life than during this semester. What sucks is that it is almost like the butterfly effect. If I had never met this one person or been at a certain place at a certain time, none of this would have happened and I might have actually had a decent semester.

#13223 You know what, I am super stoked for November 21. Why? Because Pokemon Alpha Sapphire gets released. I spent all day every day of 5th grade playing the original. Childhood here I come!

#13232 I think i better understand why we get so heart broken after a breakup. I always had a small understanding, but now I get it. After finally understanding, it seems so obvious now. When two people are in a relationship, they normally both have mutual like/love feelings for each other and express that in different ways. After a breakup, you normally just stop seeing that person and stop all communication cause it would be really hard to just be friends. So the second the breakup happens, its like you hit a wall. Bam! all the sudden everything you did together and the life you shared stops, but your feelings don't. You cant just stop caring for someone or lose feelings for them instantly. those feelings still go on even though the relationship hit a wall and stopped a while back. When the feelings are experienced without being in a relationship with that person, then that causes us emotional pain. it makes us think and do things that we wouldnt normally do like getting a rebound or sitting in our room feeling sorry for ourself while binge watching netflix and putting off homework for weeks. You are on this emotional high when your with a person you like, but when that is no longer the case, it turns to an emotional low. I guess its true what they say, that time heals the pain. For some of us, it just takes longer than others.

#13222 I walked into class and there was a guy with a live 12 foot boa constrictor (I guess as part of a demonstration for the previous class). I then saw him put the entire 12 foot snake in his backpack and walk out. Every time I see people on campus now I think to myself, "There could be a snake in that backpack".

#13231 call me shallow all you want, but if i a guy had bad teeth i am NOT interested. i didn't go through 3 years of wearing braces for nothing.