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Grace Lodewick | Graphic Artist

So, you want to get into vintage fashion? | It’s All Been Done Before

Erica Schwartz April 9, 2025
So, take a deep breath and trust yourself. Personal style is always a work in progress — especially when you are diving into a whole new branch of fashion culture. Try the things you like and see what sticks.
Liza Berdykulova | Senior Graphic Artist

Has reading become a performance?

Chloe Saint Mard February 27, 2025
At its core, this shift isn’t about literature — it’s about looking like a reader. Books have become an accessory, a personality trait and a status symbol. As a result, people are reading more visibly than ever. The joy of getting lost in a story, of struggling with complex ideas and of truly reading seems to be fading.
Haley Alvarez-Lauto | Senior Graphic Artist

The reusable water bottle obsession – how many are too many?

Samantha Marshall October 25, 2023
The more I thought about my collection of water bottles, the more I realized the collection of each bottle had very little to do with an effort to combat single use plastic, and had more to do with the desire I have to keep up with current trends.
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Social Media Society: Business is booming thanks to social media strategies

Gabriela Romero May 1, 2022
Social media can be toxic — or it can open countless doors for the fruits of your labor.
A pumpkin spice frappuccino. Frances writes about her love for the Fall beverage and explains why it’s her biggest character flaw. COURTESY OF BARB WATSON VIA FLICKR

Why pumpkin spice frappuccinos are my biggest character flaw

Frances Beedon November 14, 2021
There’s something about Pumpkin Spice Frappuccinos that I just can’t help but love.
A person balancing on a log. Lifestyle editor Katrina shares her thoughts on grappling with the preservation of her true self while anticipating and welcoming the person she is growing into. COURTESY OF JON FLOBRANT VIA UNSPLASH

A delicate line between staying true to yourself, evolving

Katrina Liu November 8, 2021
I have to learn to be okay with challenging thoughts that I used to think I wouldn’t ever question.
Yvonne Tang/DFP Staff

Canceled: New spring, new me

Bini Ollivier-Yamin April 28, 2021
The performance of self-reinvention may destroy more of the self than it reinvents.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

Moving Forward: The pandemic’s effect on our personalities

Divya Sood April 20, 2021
It is important we acknowledge our internal personality changes after a major life event.
Alexia Nizhny/DFP STAFF

A Room With a View: Ancient Greece and Italy share hospitality and xenophobia

Antonia Lehnert April 12, 2021
Before being hosted in someone’s home, one should feel welcomed in their country first.
Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Philosophical Soup: Like the art, hate the artist

Max Ferrandino April 8, 2021
Problematic artists like Kanye West can be valued and criticized at the same time.
Yvonne Tang/DFP STAFF

Burning Out: David Dobrik demonstrates how abusers hide in plain sight

Yvonne Tang March 8, 2021
Beyond the world of Dobrik and his Vlog Squad, we need to learn that abusers aren’t always what we stereotype — shady characters who wear a trench coat or live as social outcasts. Abusers can be funny, popular or even kind.
COURTESY OF CHRIS LISINSKI

LISINSKI: The Alchemy of Personality

Chris Lisinski October 23, 2014

Let me share with you an inconvenient truth about the act of studying abroad: you are still the same flawed person, even in another country. Wrapped up in this is another truth, albeit one more universally...

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