With all of the midterms, papers, and projects, making it through second semester is a struggle. After studying for weeks on end, my friends and I decided we needed to reward ourselves with the best idea since bleach blonde highlights and jean mini skirts: a Laguna Beach and The Hills marathon. Call it a guilty pleasure, but there is something about Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County and The Hills that keeps me addicted. Maybe I like it because of all the drama, or possibly I like it because it reminds me of how my friends and I would spend weekends watching it in middle school, hoping our lives would be just like everyone on the shows (now we all realize how wrong we were). But to this day, my best friends and I still take to heart some of the lessons we learned from the show, jokingly and seriously. So…

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