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Twas an interesting year...many things happened Here are some of the highlights! I turned 19 this year I made flan for the first time I traveled to Ellis Island I finished my first year of college It was the blog's 3 year anniversary I became a member at Barnes & Nobel I became an owner of two succulents I went to the Hard Rock Cafe in Baltimore I attended two weddings I was an intern for a marketing and advertising company I went on a 15-mile bike ride I cut my hair, myself! I visited a waterfall I went to a Harry Potter themed festival I went on a retreat I was a brand ambassador for an awesome company Gina Rodriguez liked my tweet and Instagram post! Although this year was filled with a lot of twists and turns, I'm glad to look back on the positive of this year and I'm ready to see what 2018 brings.

image from thatfirstyearblog.com Hello Friends!! I have been back home for a while now and over these past few weeks I've been getting asked the same question over and over again: "So, how was college?" My first instinct to this questions is to sit the person down and have an hour long conversation all about my thoughts and emotions on my first year but I usually just settle with "good" as a response. As a first generation student there were A LOT of things that I needed to adjust to in college that I never really thought about before hand. To be truthful it was very overwhelming. My anxiety was bad, my daily schedule was always full and I was completely on my own for the first time in 18 years. Not to mention I was in another state 4 hours away from home. Here are some of the things I dealt with and learned from in my first year at college. Homesickness Throughout my first year I experienced a lot of homesickness. Before college I had nev

Wow, it's been a while since I've written anything. College was interesting ride and I'm so grateful for the experience and opportunity to be around amazing people and learn so many new things. But today I am not here to talk about that. I want to write about something that happened to me during college... "So I have a friend that is a Documentary studies major, which means she wants to make documentaries for her career. For her Intro to Photography class she has to take pictures of people in their natural habitats aka dorms. So after lunch my friend, another friend and I headed to his dorm for our photo shoot. My guy friend pulled out his guitar and started playing a song, my Doc Studies friend was quick to whip out her camera and start snapping pictures. Once she starts clicking she can't stop, she calls it being 'shutter happy'. Like trigger happy but with taking photos. Anyway we all get to singing a song and she turns the camera to me

Spring semester 2017 I took a course called Literature and Cultural Studies. Our last day of class (today) we were asked to bring in a "speech" summarizing our thoughts about the content and learning that happened over the course of the semester. This course helped to reshape my thinking and how I interact with the world around me. This is a revised version of my "speech" on how I incorporate the different theories into my life. Before taking this course, I always paired theory with science, and science with intellectuals. Before this course, theory’s only purpose was to deliver to me an overly complicated jargon-filled explanation that confused me rather than simplifying the idea at hand. Before this course, I never thought of theory as something practical or something that could be applied to literature or social situations. When exploring different theories in class like; deconstruction, liberal humanism and critical race theory, I started to experie

In college, turning in your assignments on time and studying are essential for a quality educational experience. But while you are trying to be a productive bean, you need to be in the right productive enviornment. There are many things that you can do to create a producitve and efficcent working enviornment. Here are some of the things that I use and that are useful to help increase productivity. Cold Turkey There is a website, getcoldturkey.com , that will help you block out distracting websites. There are timers that you can adjust to your liking to block websites like Facebook, Pinterest, and even Netflix! Comfort Space not Comfort Place Seperating your home life and school life, especially in college is super important and essential for being your most productive self. Find a place that is comfortable to do homework that isn't your bedroom. Most times in a comfortable place people tend to be lesiurely and laid back. In a comfortable space there is a comfort factor th

I just started my second semester of college on monday and though it would be great to use reflect on my first semester. Despite my desire to have a smooth transition from high school & living with my parents to college & being independent, my first semester of college was rough. But you live and you learn so here are 10 things I learned from my first semester in college. 1. Adjusting to a new environment takes time After weeks of being in denial and telling myself I wasn't homesick and being miserable at school, I finally assessed my life situation and realized that I was missing many aspects of home life that hadn't transferred to college. Oddly enough I missed being in a house full of people and all the noise that came with it. My roommate was very quiet and kept to herself, which wasn't a problem. It was just that I yearned to be social in my living enviornment. Even when I would have an hour break in between classes my dorm was so quiet it drove me insane