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Have you ever wondered why people grow their moustaches in November? Well, a large part of this is wanting to be a part of a 20-year-old movement. In 2003, a group of 30 men started a playful challenge of trying to grow a mustache during the month of November to bring it back into style. The idea was tied to men’s health after a friend’s mother was fundraising for breast cancer awareness. The following year, the founders partnered with the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Austra

History of Halloween: How we Continue to Enjoy being scared. October feels different. The world becomes slowly orange, the air washes, the falling of leaves becomes more noisy. Between the rows of candy and the grisly ornaments something primeval awakens some time-honored ceremony that never really passed away. Halloween is all around us once again, dressed up as fun, but constructed on the basis of thousands of years of fear, faith and fire. The light we do now is not bonfir

The first week back You open Instagram between classes and see a lot of smiling faces, pictures from the club fair, and someone you barely know already hanging out with "their people." And there you are, scrolling and wondering if you're the only one who isn't living the social dream. That's the fear of missing out, or FOMO. That voice that says, "Everyone else is doing better, happier, and more." And yes, it hits hard when the semester starts. What FOMO Is and Why It Messes