My Beef With: “Date a girl who…”
I believe I have already informed the public of how apprehensive and cautious I am of taking others’ advice or opinions to heart. We are all entitled to our own opinions and way of living, and that is...
View ArticleNothing Is Permanent
I’ve been reading a lot of “what you need to know about your 20s” articles lately. Okay, I read almost every single one I come across. It’s interesting to see what some people deem as important to...
View ArticleTBT: If I had a MySpace today
Remember those surveys we all filled out on MySpace that no one besides ourselves really cared about? Well, my roommate brought it up a while back, and it got us thinking: What would we answer with in...
View ArticleWhat It’s Like When You Move Back
Skeletons or 23 blazers in my closet? Packing your bags. Heading out-of-town. Fleeing the coup. Exploring new terrain. Catching you on the flippity flip. There are many terms you can use to describe...
View ArticleThe Things I Would Do Without My College Debt
Ah, it’s the time of the morning where your alarm goes off and you instinctively groan so loudly your cat jumps off the bed offended. Yeah, well honestly Oreo, I am offended to because I just checked...
View ArticleCollege Senioritis isn’t like High School Senioritis
It just hit me recently that I am a senior is college now. I’ve been a senior before, obviously. But, this time senior week doesn’t have a Hawaiian theme, and this time getting the diploma seemed to...
View ArticleDon’t EVER Try to Be the Cool Girl
Read Gone Girl. It’s been all over the internet with its movie adaptation coming out in October, so I know you have seen this title before. Just like everyone else who has read it, I’m telling you to...
View ArticleLifetimes Ago
Time is a weird thing. Sometimes five minutes can take an hour and four years seems like just the other day. Personally, change is what determines how time feels to me. If I am changing my tasks and...
View ArticleJust Do It Scared
The best piece of advice someone has ever given me was ‘do it scared.’ And no matter if you’re scared, just go ahead and do it anyway because you might as well do it scared, so it will get done and you...
View ArticleIncubation: Not Just For Eggs
Sometimes we stop doing the things we love because we get stuck or frustrated. We stop running because we can’t seem to break an eight minute mile. We stop baking because we just can’t seem to get the...
View ArticleTo Those Who Say PR Is Not a Real Major
I will begin by mentioning that for the last three and a half years I have been pursuing a Bachelor’s degree focusing on advertising, public relations and marketing. For even longer than that, I have...
View ArticleWhen I Went a Day Without Complaining
Correction: When I [tried] to go a day without complaining. When I first saw an inspiration Facebook picture (that’s always how these experiments happen, right?) that read “Go a day without...
View ArticleLetting Go of the Reins
Everything is just…ending. I just feel like everything is gonna be over. I’m done at the paper. Soon I’m gonna be done at Yale, and it’s just like I’m standing on this cliff, looking out into this...
View ArticleDoing Things Alone: Going Out to Eat
Most of us hate being alone. I’m not just talking about being single, or not having your close friends living nearby. I mean physically alone. Especially in public. Some of us would not be caught...
View ArticleYou Know This Isn’t “Your Year,” Right?
Ah, it’s the first real day of 2015. I say this because although yesterday was January 1st, we all probably just stayed on the couch with a headache and watched the first season of “Friends” on...
View ArticleWhat I Learned: My First Internship
One year and nine months ago, I took an intern position at a business marketing firm that also published a county magazine. I had only been in mass communication for a year. I barely knew how to get...
View ArticleMy Beef With: Applying For Jobs in 2015
Or internships. Or anything with an application process that asks you to provide them with links to your social media accounts and attach a cover letter, resume, head shot, birth certificate, social...
View ArticleThe Perks of Being a Failure
What have you failed at recently? Did you study all night for a test just to walk in the next morning and realize you studied the wrong material? Did you try your hardest on a job application just to...
View ArticleThe Myth of Happiness
I think there is this myth of happiness going around. It’s becoming more terrifying than what Zeus has been known for, and that’s saying something. “Once this happens, I’ll be happy.” Or once I find...
View ArticleSurvival Guide From My Hippie Parents
I know exactly what my mom will say when she sees the title of this post: “Kim, we are not hippies.” Although she would rather use the term New Age or probably just an “organic lifestyle,” the salt...
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