Maybe the answer isn’t in all or nothing excursions
When I was a kid my entire family went on a 5-month international vacation. Don’t get me wrong I feel incredibly privileged and grateful for the experience. But surprisingly there were times when we all felt homesick, bored, or annoyed with each other. 5 months is a long time.
Flash forward to the summer before COVID hit and my girlfriends and I did a three-week Europe vacation. Again, it was an amazing adventure, but after the second week, we smelled, we were tired, we all missed our boyfriends and our dogs. …
A psychology major explores how to change a habit
If you’re like me you are probably no stranger to the usual habit advice:
- Change to your desired habit for 21 days and it will stick
- Think of these habits as positives
- Reward yourself with something after you have completed the task
If you’re just like me, you also have a dream version of yourself. The self that is thinner, smarter, braver, or wealthier. You might visualize this person, see this person, and fantasize about who this person could be if you could just simply change a few things. I am constantly on the road to self-improvement, a road trip…
Gadgets you didn’t know you needed
When I worked in an office I was ADHD restless and didn’t know it at the time. Flash forward to now when I am on medication for my ADHD and I do a lot of things for grad school and my internship at home, since then I have discovered a few must-have gadgets for me and my ADHD working from home habits.
A Hot Plate
“I can’t date you or have a hot plate in my office.”-Ross, from Friends
I actually didn’t know what a hot plate was or that it was a real thing. It was…
A few words that heal
*I would just like to preface this, I love the book the Beauty Myth, I do not support the authors recent upsetting anti-vax opinion
I wish I was alone in wanting to look like a heroin-chic 90’s twig. I wish I was alone in wanting Kardashian curves. I wish I was alone in hating my wrinkles, stretch marks, moles, freckles, and cellulite. But I am not alone. I have yet to converse with a woman who didn’t have more than a few physical traits she hated about herself. At times, I indulge my self-hating, diet frenzy self. But there is…
Gadgets that make your life easier
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As women, we are constantly having to do more. As a whole, we used to have all the domestic labor and the childcare resting on our shoulders. Now, women take more than half of the cleaning labor, childcare, and work on top of this. We need more labor equity, but some of what can help bridge that gap is technology.
iRobo
Put simply, imagine getting your work done on a call and having your place vacuumed and mopped simultaneously. There’s a robot for that.
Garmin Watch
This is a smartwatch- but you can’t tell it’s a smartwatch. It screams…
I can’t get over the courage, heart, and talent from this human
I didn’t really know who Lil Nas X was. I had heard the “Old Town Road” Remix that he had done but I didn’t really pay attention to the artist. Then when his song “Montero” came out I couldn’t stop listening to it. When I looked up the artist on Google Images, I saw him in a pink leather harness, and thus began my deep dive into Lil Nas X’s music, his comments, and his life! The things this human is doing is incredible. He sings about sex, racism, his queer identity, and then on top of that uses his…
A bitter victims deep dive into a very old theology
In high school, I whispered:“I think I am pregnant!” to my Mormon friend in 7th period. Even though I hadn’t had penetrative sex. I had wrapped my swimsuited body around a boy in the water and we kissed for a while. My period was late so I assumed I must be pregnant. This story made it all the way around my friend group by the end of lunch. My Mormon friend group. …
The story and our later resources for my friend’s abuse
When I Met Rachel
I met my Rachel, my best friend, during the first week in college. I was at a cheesy “Welcome to College!” night put on by the University. You know, the ones with the too-bright lighting and chaperones. Many of my newfound acquaintances decided to leave me that night. I decided to go back to my dorm, but I really wanted to go back to dance at the gym, and maybe meet some new people. As I headed back to my dorm I looked into the room that was two doors down from me.
There sat a brunette eating a deli…
Unpacking Tim Denning’s Recent Mental Health Article
It feels like an easy shot for a measly writer like me can talk a big game about a big player. I want it to be very clear that this isn’t a “Cancel Culture” tirade I am embarking on. I have nothing against Tim Denning or the majority of his work. In fact, in a self-reflective state, I acknowledge I harbor jealousy and admiration for Tim Denning. I want to be as popular as he is on the platform. I want to have his Medium earnings, and his following numbers. I have never strived to be him, simply because I…
What I Hope We Take Away From This Last Year
There’s a lot I took away from this past year during the pandemic. Like the fact I can eat almost an entire box of Oreos in one day. Or the fact that as an introvert I didn’t miss people, but I did miss traveling. I also realized how my anxiety manifested and times I lost some humanity when it felt like my life was threatened(sorry for all my panic in the grocery store last March!). There was a lot of uncertainty and I had to push through how uncomfortable it was to live with that anxiety. I made it through…
