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The New Hampshire

Life as a villager

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If you look at the University of New Hampshire campus life statistics by The Princeton Review, you will see that our university’s “campus environment” is listed as “village.” Your first question may be, “What does this mean?” Ours was, too. A village is defined as “a self-contained district or community within a town or city, regarded as having features characteristic of village life,” with village life being a small community in a rural area.


The New Hampshire

Everyday is a great day to feel good

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The past few days I’ve been sick. With classes bearing down on us, homework getting more abundant and stressful all the time, the commencement of the annual plague, and the pressure to join clubs or work until there are no holes in your schedule, it’s difficult to have a positive attitude. It can seem like each day we start out on the wrong side of the bed, put our worst foot forward, and remain in the same depressed state until we collapse into bed at the end of a trying day. My go-to song to lift my spirits never fails to give me some perspective, and a little more spring in my step.


The New Hampshire

Here to help

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Starting college means starting a life where your path and direction are unpredictable. The people you meet over the four years you’re on campus will start to shape your life and change you, sometimes for the better, but sometimes for the worst. College relationships are more adult-like than anything one could experience in high school. Sharing the freedoms of being independent with someone else is new territory for most students and can be wonderful, but slightly overwhelming. Now, there are no parents or school counselors to monitor behavior and becoming trapped in an abusive relationship can easily go unrecognized.