So, here’s the thing I’ve recently realized: I have a type. Which, honestly, is a weird thing to admit because I never thought I had one. I mean, people usually have types, right? Some like their partners...

I HATE THE TERM SITUATIONSHIP! As a victim of many unlabeled, emotionally taxing relationships, I consider myself incredibly qualified to speak on the term "situationship", and its horrifying effects on...

Last year, around this time, I wrote a Heartbeat about loving your friends. I was in my first year in love with the world (though anyone who knows me would say that I’m still in love with the world)....

“I’ve had hints of that heart-stopping feeling…” I trailed off, searching for the right words. “But I’ve never felt it to quite the same level, with the same intensity, like I did with Ryan....

It is my belief that St. Olaf’s community of lovers is bizarre compared to other schools. We are a small little pocket of horny college kids on this residential campus in this small town in this Midwestern...

It’s been a while since I wrote my last Heartbeat story — the same time as last year, or at least at a similar time as last year. I learned a little more about myself when it comes to relationships,...

Meeting your significant other at university is wonderful. You get to live and work near them, meaning you can see them almost everyday. Unfortunately, meeting your significant other at university also...

Why do we hold up college as a good time to find a life partner? You hear it from your friends, from their parents, sometimes even from administration: “We met in college.” Yet college comes so early...

I didn’t know this four years ago, but that boy who sat behind me in high school chemistry class was the one for me. After three years apart, a fish of all things brought us back together. I know it...

In my freshman year, I read Sappho's “Ode to Aphrodite” for my seminar and almost cried in class discussion. I was taken by her vengeful plea for the love of her life to love her back. In August of...

Hello my lovelies! I’m back from my sabbatical where I studied campus squirrel mating trends, and I’m elated to share dating advice in a “post-pandemic” world. We are a couple weeks into the spring...

In the Netflix special “Jigsaw,” Daniel Sloss put forward an analogy that every person’s life is a puzzle made up of pieces that represent your family, friends, hobbies, jobs, partners, and we’re...