I recently left my home of four years; I left where everything was familiar, surrounded by 50,000 people my age with similar interests.  Now I live in a new city where I know about 4 people.  The truth is: it kind of sucks.  However, I know that I have to adapt, and adapt fast.  I […]

This week marks my fourth spring break as a college student, and I have a strong feeling that it is going to provide my most relaxing and rejuvenating break yet. Interesting thing is, I’m not on an island in warm weather drinking and having naked orgies, although that does sound most enjoyable.
This week marks the […]

Where should I apply for a job? Where do I want to live? Who should I date? Now that I’m at a point in my life where these decisions are starting to matter, I definitely put more thought into them.
Throughout this major transitional period, I’ve reached out to the people I trust […]

I know that we look different from baby boomers. But fundamentally we operate the same way. So if you are having trouble getting along at work. Try looking at things from a different perspective.
1. They think they deserve special treatment
You complain that we feel like we deserve something in […]

For some reason, it’s automatically assumed that when you get to college, you have to leave your jeans and dress shirts in your drawers until Friday night. At first this was great. I could wear sweatpants all the time, I could go to class in a hooded sweatshirt, and I never […]

I recently attended a speed networking event put on by a local community center. While I was definitely looking for a potential job opportunity, I was much more interested in receiving reactions to the ideas and altered approach to life that I have gained since entering the blogosphere.
Passion quickly became the main theme of the […]

Have you ever woken up in the morning, and checked your cell phone, only to see three text messages and ten missed calls from numbers you’ve never heard of? Have you gone through the address book in your phone to see numbers stored under “don’t call”, or “mistake?” Well if you’re in college, […]

Now that I have gained the attention of at least a dozen people who are currently trying to justify their procrastination, let me explain. The act of procrastination is an unavoidable human behavior that is exhibited frequently by the vast majority of people. Procrastination comes in many forms, as small as finding a reason to […]

Our generation has been working in groups since kindergarten.
But now I’m a senior in college, and I’m still surrounded by people who don’t know how to work together. At first thought, I was surprised that my peers were incapable of filling a role in a group. With all this group work […]

Sunday night I had the privilege to attend a seminar by a leading keynote speaker who delivers insightful thoughts behind successful ways of advocating. His main point, “cater your speech to your audience,” was less than ground breaking until I talked to a friend afterwards who exclaimed that she “loved the speech, but didn’t think […]