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• Advice for Awkward People

  Hey Ruth,
  So finals are coming up soon, as I’m sure everyone is aware, and I want to try and prevent something that always happens to me. Namely, I slack off.

  Pillbox | December 4, 2017
• Advice for Awkward People

  **Hey Ruth!
  Last week you wrote about ways to talk to your family about your major, which is great, but what about, like, everything else?

  Pillbox | November 20, 2017
• Advice for Awkward People: On Nosy Relatives

  Hey Ruth,
  So Thanksgiving Break is coming up (and after that winter break!) which means holidays, holidays, and more holidays. I can’t explain to you how excited I am for even one home cooked meal, and now I’ve got course after course of delicious holiday food coming my way.

  Pillbox | November 13, 2017
• Advice for Awkward People

  Hey Ruth,
  So, the inevitable happened. I’m officially pretty sure that I’m going to fail a class, and I have no clue what to do about it. It isn’t one of my core degree classes, but I was planning on using it as one of the electives that I need to graduate and I don’t want to have to re-take it.

  Pillbox | November 6, 2017
• Advice for Awkward People

  **Hey Ruth,
  I have an email problem. Or, this university has an email problem. It sends way too much.
  Some of the d-lists I’m on are totally my fault — I signed up for way too many things as a way of getting snacks at the activities fair. But there are a whole bunch of others that I was put on automatically and never send me anything useful! Or when they do send something I want to read (or a pr...

  Pillbox | October 30, 2017