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Yea to last weekend: a win against the Bruins, Halloween on a Saturday and decent weather to do college trick-or-treating around Corvallis. Nay to spending obscene amounts of money for your Halloween costume and overindulging, falling asleep early and missing the night.

It's 8 a.m. and you're sitting in the far corner of the lecture hall, trying desperately to pay attention to what the professor is lecturing about. Your eyes succumb to the fluorescent glow of the overhead lights and your eyelids droop ever so slightly. Your elbow slips off of the desk and your notebook lays abandoned in your backpack.

You shouldn't believe everything you read here in the Barometer, even in the small paragraph following each article. It is true that I am a sophomore, and it is true that my opinion does not necessarily reflect that of the staff of this fine publication - though my opinions are usually the correct ones.

Music is a huge part of my life, and I am willing to bet that applies to much of this campus too. Music not only expresses who a person is or what they like, but it can evoke raw emotions and feelings in that person. as well. A song can change a person's mood, lift them up or take them back to a past memory.

The lessons that the Boys and Girls Club can teach us all There's nothing that can quite compare to the twinkle in a child's eye. I discovered this recently when I started volunteering at the Corvallis Boys and Girls Club a couple weeks ago. I saw it in almost every one of their expressions - that look.