I’ve never really felt like I fit in. Being quite an introvert and a homebody, I’ve felt myself try to change on many occasions to please other people and to just be accepted. I’ve tried to be the girl that was too cool for school. The girl that only kept a few friends, hated all…
Meet cute: a scene in film, television, etc. in which a future romantic couple meets for the first time in a way that is considered adorable, entertaining, or amusing. Because I base so many of my falling-in-love fantasies off of love novels and star crossed movies, I've always pictured my moment with "the one" as a…
If you eliminated all the people in your life asking you questions, pressuring you, and telling you what to do - where would you be? At one point in your life, you're going to have to fake it until you make it. That point in your life might just be now, in your 20's, when…
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College is a scam. I think most people know that by now, but I hate the whole way college has been pushed on young people. We are presented with the idea that further education is the only way to go and to go that way you need to go into debt. I went to school…
Now that I have been traveling more often, I think it's time that I learn a language other than English. I took one Spanish class for a year once and one French class for a year once and did pretty poorly in each. I took Italian for three years in high school and was pretty…
I think there is a lot of pressure to be happy. When you work somewhere, when you're out with your friends, when you're in a relationship...everyone assumes that because of where you are, you should be happy. But that's really not always the case and it's not always because of the people around you. You…
Hey you! You did it! And I am so unbelievably proud of you. I know high school sucked and you've been looking forward to college for the past four years. I also know you currently feel held back, scared, and unsure. It's okay that you made your school choice based off of proximity. You may…
We're busy people. We work, we have friends, we have families, some of us have kids, some of us have pets. Some of us go to school, some have more than one job, some are just busy. It's hard to find time for a vacation and it's hard to find money for vacation. Some jobs…
Ever since high school I would talk about how I was going to get out of here. It started with wanting to go to Canada, to wanting to go to college in Ireland, to getting accepted to all the schools I applied for in North Carolina. I ultimately stayed in New Jersey because of my…
Dear high school me, High school is a scary time. Everyone is going through incredible changes, yourself included. New things are introduced and new interests gain importance. There are so many people who are older than you and know more than you. And you're in this little building with them, there to learn from them…
