We're housemates and best friends, but we like very different podcasts. This is what we think about that.

The most highly anticipated day at Skidmore is quickly approaching. As Fun Day looms in the distance—anxiety inducing for some, exciting for others—there’s a lot to think about. How are you possibly going to finish your bio lab report that’s due on Monday? Is it going to be warm enough to wear knee high gladiator sandals? What about flower crowns? Are those in or out right now? Are you going to get to talk to your crush on the bouncy castle?

“Styles is aware that his largest audience so far has been young – often teenage – women. Asked if he spends pressure-filled evenings worried about proving credibility to an older crowd, Styles grows animated."

The annual LINE Art Magazine release party in the Tang is one of my favorite Skidmore events. This year, LINE is joining forces with Bare to throw the ultimate magazine release party at 7pm tonight in the Tang. In preparation, we sat down with LINE’s badass lady boss Editor in Chief Evelyn Wang.

Instead of putting together my typical HC Skidmore playlist, I thought today I'd list some of my current music recommendations. I've been taking my fair share of walks now that it's been pretty consistently warm outside, which means I've been listening to a lot of music while I do. So much great new music comes out around this time of year, so here are, in my humble opinion, the best new-ish releases for your summer.

In just over a month I will be an alumna of Skidmore College.

Jay Asher's young adult novel 13 Reasons Why changed my life. I know that might sound dramatic, but I really believe it's true—this book taught me so much about being nicer, about understanding that everything you do matters, and about being conscious of the fact that you can never truly know what is happening in someone else’s life. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve read it.

This time of the semseter is almost always a slump for me. It's often hard to come back from spring break, especially if you've been somewhere warm, and the second half of the spring semester is usually an anxiety induced "oh god i have to pass my finals and get a summer job/internship and it's somehow still snowing" mess. I've said it before and I'll say it again, though--music is one of the best ways to boost your mood and get you through what can be a tough time.

I am the Queen of spending Spring Break at home. Seriously, save the semester I was abroad, I’ve spent every single Spring Break week chilling at my house on Long Island, while all my friends were away on tropical islands, or skiing, or having the time of their lives in Disney World and Europe. And, honestly, I don’t hate it. I’m a big fan of Spring Break at home, and I truly think you can have just as good a time at home as you could in Barbados.

Hobbies/Activities: Hiking and climbing, interrupting Gwen, reciting political speeches, seeing how many times I can quote something in a day

It seems like all our articles lately have been about the warm weather, but it's hard to avoid the topic of weather on a 65 degree day in upstate New York February. Swinter has been putting everyone in a pretty good mood, despite the fact that a lot of us are totally bogged down with work, but it's been bringing up some anxieties for me as well.

Hobbies/Activites: Sitting extremely close to my friends on the couch, watching Scream with my housemate, entering my house through my bedroom window becuase I lost my ID, and helping people pronounce my last name.

In case you haven't noticed, it's warm out. Like, really warm out. And, according to my trusty weather.com and also the weather function on Snapchat, it's going to stay that way for at least a little while.

Hi I’m Gwen and I have literally never had a significant other for Valentine’s Day. In fact, the last boyfriend I had was in freshman year of high school, and even then we weren’t dating on February 14th. So, I’m kind of an expert at being single on Valentine’s Day and I’m here to tell you that I love every second of it.

This year I had my first ever Super Bowl event. I won’t even call it a Super Bowl party, because the premise of it was actually to hang out and not watch the game, and while we ended up having the game on in the background to keep track of the score and Lady Gaga, my party was truly focused on food, beer, and Cards Against Humanity. This wasn’t just my first Super Bowl party, though—it was the first time I’d ever hosted a party on my own, without my housemates. I was terrified.

The thing about winter is that it might actually be the sunniest season. Like, I know we’re closer to the sun in the summer and there are more sunny days numerically, but I swear the sun is stronger in the winter when it bounces off the endless snow and hits me straight in the eyes. Despite this, I feel like people don’t wear sunglasses in the winter as much as they do in the summer—in fact, I often feel judged when I walk around campus wearing sunglasses in February.

Life has been a lot lately. With recent political events, the dreading sense that we’re rushing toward WWIII, the realization that graduation is looming over my head, and personal issues, it’s been pretty easy to overwhelm me lately. Despite the amount of homework I already have to do, (seriously though? I’m a second semester senior. I thought this was supposed to be easy) I still consider it incredibly important to save time for decompressing and loitering.

No matter where you're going this winter break, or how you're getting there, there's a pretty strong chance you'll have a lot of time to listen to music while travelling. I, for one, have a 4 hour drive home by myself, and I think I'll go crazy if I don't have music blasting the whole time. I'm probably going to just throw a Spotify playlsit on shuffle, because I'm terrible at curating long playlists, but I thought I'd put together a short one as well.

Is winter break made for anything other than sitting on the couch and watching Netflix all day? Probably not, let's be real here. For your viewing pleasure, and for my finals-procrastionation-pleasure, I've compiled a list of the ten best TV shows to marathon watch this break, all available on Netflix. I picked shows that keep you going from one episode to the next-shows that are literally made for marathoning. Sorry about your break.

Last week we blessed you all (and ourselves) with our first ever teen heartthrob theme week. In my three years here at HC Skidmore, I don't know if I've ever seen our writers get so excited about a theme week or about their articles. Drowning in finals, in capstones, in shitty weather (seriously, I think the snow is up to my knees) and end of semester existential crises, teen heartthrob week reminded us that there are things in this bleak winter that still give us butterflies.