Remember your senior year of high school? Touring colleges, trying not to get your hopes up. Retaking the SAT for the tenth time, wondering if you’d get a better score with the ACT. The love/hate relationship with collegeboard.com, and endless trips to the college counselor.
Then, THE WAIT. And running to the mail box every day. Staring at your application status page - pressing F5 over and over (refresh, refresh, refresh!). Until, one day that magical word appears: admitted.
Fast forward to September.
The move-in is over (your mom only broke down once, thank goodness). The awkward, “Hi, I’m going to be living in close quarters!” moment is over with your roomie(s) and classes have begun.
And an unsettling feeling set in. This place isn’t what you thought it would be. You try to love it - really you do - but it isn’t the right fit and you can’t seem to get into a groove. You know you could transfer but *argh!* you thought you were set! That the application insanity was done for good! What do you do? Read More »




Buying things makes me feel guilty. I mean, ridiculously guilty. Considering most of the clothes in my closet are there just for decoration, I cannot justify spending money on most of the things that I want, other than, “I want them!“. Which isn’t that strong of a case.
Maybe it’s that time of the month, and you don’t really care if it’s 2 in the morning—you just really want a freaking cookie. Now.
I think I’ve found myself a new celeb girl-crush.
Last night, while trying to drown my “summer’s over” blues by throwing myself into a TV coma, I happened across the newest installment of the Real World. This year, those crazy
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Con-graduation! The time has finally come to snag that piece of paper you have had in your sights for the last 4 years. As I am sure you have heard, graduation can be an incredibly tiresome and boring process. It’s a whole lot of hurry up and wait, so knowing what to wear and what to bring can make all the difference on this ever-so important day.