Gwynn Lyons, Stanford University, Author at Study Breaks

Tune in, Turn on, Stay in School

At the University of Colorado Boulder, members of the Psychedelic Club are working to dismantle the taboos surrounding LSD, shrooms and ecstasy.…

July 1, 2017

Meet the University of Connecticut Students Putting a New Spin on Exercise

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The b-boys of UConn's Break Dancing Club give 'head-spinning' an entirely different meaning.…

June 6, 2017

Reflections on Senioritis from a Recent Stanford Grad

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Take it from someone who thought she would never fall victim to the apathy of senior year—it’s real, it’s unavoidable and it’s a lot of fun.…

May 18, 2017

Veteran Max Rohn’s Journey from Paralympic Champion to Penn State Student

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After losing his leg in Iraq, Rohn rededicated his life to an entirely different kind of service.…

May 12, 2017

4 Songs That You’ll Hate After One Listen, but Love After Two

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Sometimes, to escape the predictive listening algorithms of Spotify and Pandora, you have to listen to terrible music on purpose.…

May 9, 2017

The Slippery Slopes

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For members of Michigan State’s Water Ski Club, the hardest part is picking a lake.…

May 2, 2017

A College Bucket List for Nerds

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The six things that any self-respecting geek has to do before they graduate.…

April 19, 2017

Where You Should Live after College, According to Your Major

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With only a few months left before graduation, I made this list as much for me as for you.…

April 14, 2017

Meet the Duke Senior Who Created a Cancer-Detecting App in High School

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Believe it or not, after winning the Google Science Fair with her invention, Brittany Wenger is up to even more impressive research today.…

April 7, 2017

Texas A&M’s Aggie Rodeo Team Steers Tradition Into Student Life

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The team, which was founded in 1919 and is led by student Paco Falcon, has kept a proud tradition alive for almost a century.…

April 5, 2017

Why I Deleted Facebook

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Hello from the other side.…

March 30, 2017

Productivity: Your Secret Foe

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In a world obsessed with quantifying the value of things, free time is a missed opportunity.…

March 17, 2017

The Misunderstood Joy of Classical Music

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If you think you hate the genre, then you don't really know what it is.…

March 9, 2017

Princeton Student Cason Crane Summits Peaks to Save LGBTQ Lives

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Accomplished mountaineer Cason Crane talks climbing the highest peaks on each continent as part of his project to raise money for an LGBTQ youth suicide lifeline.…

March 2, 2017

At many STEM-oriented schools, getting a Liberal Arts degree can come with a hefty side of inferiority complex.

A Fuzzy Fish in a Techy Pond

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At many STEM-oriented schools, getting a Liberal Arts degree can come with a hefty side of inferiority complex.…

February 21, 2017

Why I Didn’t Take a Gap Year, and Why That’s Okay

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The next-best thing to taking a gap year? Realizing why you should take one after finishing college.…

February 14, 2017

How to Burst the College “Bubble” That You Are Almost Certainly Living In

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Transitioning to the real world will be a lot simpler if you keep in mind that you’re not in it yet.…

February 2, 2017

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