Despite the expensive rent, mobs of people, rare silence and utter chaos, I want to move to New York City. Each year on Thanksgiving my mom, sisters, and I sit in front of the television and watch the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade while silently kicking ourselves for not going yet again. Years ago, from ages…
A college senior? Over college? Why isn’t she failing her classes to stay? Switching her major to force her to stay for longer? Could she really want to be kicked off the payroll? Live by herself? Become immersed with the horror of the adult world and work? Well… Yes please. I’ve never been particularly excited…
rI was a little late to the makeup game. I started wearing it in 8th grade after my mom bought my sisters and I pallets “just for fun”. Having it right in front of me without having to ask my mom to buy it or ask if it was okay for me to start wearing…
The book Status Update, by Alice E. Marwick, introduces the readers to the book by defining Web 2.0. Unlike Web 1.0, it includes interaction, collaboration, active participation, and user generated content. The users of social media platforms, such as blogs, social networks, and photo sharing sites, create the interactive dialogue. In a communication class that…
For years and years I’ve volunteered at and attended events that were created to raise money for cancer research. I’ve participated in walks/ runs and watched as my sisters, along side my dad, shaved their heads raising thousands of dollars for pediatric cancer research with the St. Baldricks non- profit. I’ve gotten three haircuts in…
I had constantly thought about starting to journal but the simplicity that comes from typing on a keyboard was extremely hard to overlook. However, after a failed attempt, and conversations with two very convincing people, I gave it a try, and I’m obsessed. I started out buying two journals. One was a recommended brand…
The only times I recommend following a limit is when your professor says that they’re not reading anything in your paper beyond the 750th word and when you could be sent to your sorority standards board for posting a picture of alcohol on your Instagram while you’re under 21. Then you should probably stop. Otherwise,…
Who’s bright idea was this? We all get hurt until we meet the right person? You better bet that if I kept falling off a bike and breaking my arm, I wouldn’t be getting back on after the 7th arm was broken. So, here’s my theory. When you’re little, you exist in the world of…
You know how when you hold someone’s hand and they rub their thumb on yours or open your hand in their lap and individually touch every part of your fingers and palm and back of your hand? Imagine if you’re sitting there on the first date holding hands and your date asks if you know…
My first really scary movie was in fact not Finding Nemo (even though we left the theater because I cried when the sharks came on). No no, it was the first scream. My sister, her best friend and I sat downstairs in the living room while my youngest sister and my dad were in the…