Sophomore Kelsey Rohwer, a Hatchet columnist, discusses how the competition for happiness after a breakup may actually help individuals heal from a split with their significant other.

The holidays, and college itself, seem to make what is already bad about breaking up even worse. Whether we all buckle under the pressure of choosing a gift for our significant other, or see the next semester as the perfect opportunity to start over with someone new, last semester’s relationships can easily dissolve over the holidays.

Here at GW, the winter break and breaking up go hand-in-hand, and with that, the post-breakup competitions begin.