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My Mania with the “Chi-Rho”. After my burnout, and under the… | by Retired IT-Guy | Aug, 2025
After my burnout, and under the influence of Ritalin, I slipped into mania. A typical symptom of psychosis is seeing connections everywhere — even
The Loneliness Nobody Talks About After College | by Soul Evans | Aug, 2025
So here’s the thing everyone hypes up graduation like it’s this big finish line. Caps in the air, family clapping, friends screaming your name, and you’re standing there thinking, “Wow, I did it. I’m grown now.” But nobody really preps
Why Watching Barbie Was the Most Unexpected Confidence Boost! | by Grescanda Vernie Rapaella | Aug, 2025
Since I was a kid, I’ve been familiar with this pink icon as a beautiful girl who can do anything, like the slogan says, “She’s everything and he’s just Ken.” Barbie was never just a movie for me, nor just
Diabetes: The Ice Age Code We Still Carry | by Jim Columbus | Aug, 2025
Diabetes: The Ice Age Code We Still Carry
When I was younger, long before I knew the word diabetes, my body was already whispering the secret.
I ran hot.
I sweated through shirts.
And when winter came, I felt alive.
13 Readers Share Their Best Summer Moments
How’s your summer going? We asked Cup of Jo readers on Instagram to share photos of happy moments and got over 100 responses! They felt impossible to narrow down, but here are 13 that made us smile…
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From Financial Struggles to Finding Purpose: My B.Tech Journey So Far | by Gopal Maddheshiya | Aug, 2025
Starting my second year on July 23, 2025, something shifted. Instead of letting the overwhelm consume me, I took a deep breath and made a decision.
I was going to master this.
I dove into Java, Data Structures and Algorithms
A Saturn Love Story. The years had stretched long between… | by Nadya Utami | Aug, 2025
Birthdays had always been markers in her life — small checkpoints where she looked back on how far she had come, and forward to where she still hoped to go. But this birthday, her twenty-ninth, carried a weight that only