Question from Moon Baby: “My boyfriend dumps me randomly and thinks it’s so funny. If I give him a picture of me he will draw on it like it means nothing, and when we are together he always talks about this other girl. I’m worried he might be cheating. What do I do?” Ben says:…
The unthinkable happened. I had opened Microsoft Word, ready to continue working on a very important paper for one of my classes. Countless hours had been poured into perfecting it. However, I knew there was something off as soon as the program opened. The document I was looking for wasn’t listed under the recent files.…
From Arron: “A buddy of mine’s girlfriend talks to a “friend” of her’s on Skype more than she talks to her boyfriend. Advice?” Ben says: I think they should bring it up. I know I’ve heard of guys who won’t get off of video games to talk to their girlfriends, and I’ve heard of girls…
There is an empty page. It can be a simple piece of notebook paper or an empty word document on a computer screen. It doesn’t matter. But it’s right there and it’s staring you in the face. It challenges you to defy it, a void of endless white that threatens to swallow whole any word…
From A: “What’s something I can do to feel less scared about graduating from college?” Ben says: I think you should research. You should talk to your advisor or a professor that you are close with. It’s a scary prospect, but getting advice and then figuring out what you’re going to do makes it not-so-scary.…
The mood of a day is a fickle thing. Good days can be ruined quite easily. A single problem can snowball into a million different problems. Sometimes we are overwhelmed by the amount of things that just aren’t going our way, and the day becomes downright terrible. Then we also have our uneventful days where…
Question from J: How do you overcome the fear of rejection when asking someone out? Ben says: You really never get over that fear, even after you have asked them out. The best advice I can give is just be yourself. Don’t come off trying to sound intelligent, or cute or exaggerated. Just be yourself.…
You wake up to the persistent screech of your alarm clock. Eyes bleary and crusted, you feebly reach out and smack that infernal machine until it shuts up. You roll back over into the comforting warmth of your bed sheets. “I’ve got time,” you tell yourself. Temporary darkness. The screeching returns and you force yourself…
Through the Grapevine is written by Ben Coffman and Shannon Crimbchin Question from Q: “I feel as if one of my colleagues tries to avoid doing their job and dumps as much work as possible on their fellow co-workers (myself included); the work is stressing me out, and I’m not quite sure how to go…
Through the Grapevine is produced by Ben Coffman and Shannon Crimbchin Question from S.: “I keep hearing people use derogatory terms toward homosexuals and women around campus. What should I do about it?” Shannon says: There’s nothing you can really do about it. Everyone is entitled to their own thoughts, but I do think it…
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