Finally, fall is vaguely in the air. Holidays are approaching. The spirit of giving is set to infest the hearts of humans everywhere. People are baking those little cookies that have miniature pictures of ghosts on them. As you’re reading this, your heartbeat is hastening.

Don’t fret, reader. Gift-giving season has yet to arrive at your doorstep (or dorm-step.) You have time.

As college students, we live in a sort of dissonant piece of life. We’re not really adults and we’re not really kids. We’re a sort of child-people who spend time doing things adult professionals do without the traditional pay or recognition. We lack the ethos to earn the affection of the majority of most adult professionals, yet we’re relatively disconnected to our adolescence. So what is it that we have? Who can we appeal to? Who appreciates us? Is there one move that’s more likely to win a game of rock-paper-scissors?

In a bleak world full of people who hand deliver you scowls based on the piercings you do or do not have, or the majors you do or do not declare, we have one thing we can cling to in this trying season of life: each other.

That’s right — as coy and aloof as students may attempt to remain, we all need and desire positive support from each other within our individualized college communities. We’re standing outside Aldi ringing the metaphorical bells of life, asking you with our eyes to drop your spare pocket change into our self-esteem buckets.

Do you know what this means? We should stand by one another in support for this weird season we’re enduring and poorly attempting to navigate.

So you should go to your friend’s gallery, no matter how low key it may be. You should stand in as an extra in your friend’s P3 film.

In fact, maybe we should all feel a little obligated to support each other. Somebody has to do it.

Go full Jack and Rose this semester. We recommend it.