Entries Tagged as 'Growing up'

job opportunity

April 9th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Normally I wouldn’t devote an entire post to…myself, but today I am making an exception. As most of you know, I will receive my Bachelors Degree on May 18th. I have been interning at The Yale University Press since last June (with a three month break while I lived in London). I was […]

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Tags: Girl power · Growing up · Check this out! · Self-promotion

walking away

April 8th, 2008 · No Comments

I should be paying attention to my Human Sexuality Professor, but unfortunately my computer is distracting me (and normally I do use it for note taking in class). But taking a glass half full approach, if my computer wasn’t such a distraction, I would not be able to share with you this heartbreaking account […]

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Tags: Growing up · Media · Celebrities · Your body · Body image · Activism · Check this out! · Femininity

miss bimbo

March 30th, 2008 · 1 Comment

And I thought it was disgusting that young boys were playing video games that encourages them to kill women in order to receive “health points”. Then my friend showed me an article about this website game called Miss Bimbo. Described as a “fashion” game, this game encourages young girls (the majority between the ages of […]

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Tags: Growing up · Sex · Media · Your body · Body image · Activism · Ideas · Check this out! · Femininity · Ewww!

From anorexia to manorexia to brideorexia

February 27th, 2008 · 4 Comments

So I’m sitting here with a little free time at work and I came across a Newsweek article about a new craze sweeping women who are about to get married. It talked about how brides are going to extremes to look good for their weddings. Apparently, the total cost for an average American wedding […]

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Tags: Girl power · Growing up · Your body · Love · Check this out! · Femininity · Your style · Ewww!

Spring Awakening

February 22nd, 2008 · 1 Comment

The other night, in the midst of what, for New York City, was a complete blizzard, I went to see the Broadway show Spring Awakening with my friend Kate and some other kids from the Honors College at Pace. And I have to say, I don’t think I have ever seen anything like this […]

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Tags: Growing up · Sex · Media

When you know, you just know

February 12th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Every girl knows exactly what their wedding is going to be like, right? Well, let’s just say I played dress-up and all that as a little girl, but I never thought much about the details of my wedding. As a self-professed “girlie-girl” this is unheard of. Well, imagine my surprise a few […]

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Tags: Growing up · Randomness · General · Ideas · Femininity

Hillary

February 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Right now California polls aren’t even fully counted yet, but I just found this amazing video that Amber Tamblyn and America Ferrera (Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Joan of Arcadia, The Ring, Real Women Have Curves) they did a video of Hillary, and I believe it shows how kind she is and how much she […]

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Tags: Girl power · Growing up · Media · Politics · Activism · General · Ideas · Check this out! · Femininity

D.A.R.E. wasn’t enough

December 18th, 2007 · No Comments

Drugs. I’ve never tried them, never been tempted to experiment… but that’s more than I can say for my younger brother. He’s 15 years old and likes to smoke pot, he doesn’t see anything wrong with it. Out of all the drugs, it is probably the least bad, but it still worries me. Last night […]

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Tags: Growing up · Relationships · National issues · Drugs · Family

I’m a REDHEAD!!!

December 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Hey everybody, guess what my newest most wonderful endeavour is!!!!!!!!!Yesterday I dyed my hair red!!! I am naturally a dirty blondish color, and am now a light/reddish/firetruckish auburn. I LOOOOOOOOVE IT!!! I have had pink and blue extensions, but never actually done something this drastic and IT ROCKS!!! I am offically very hardcore. lololol. Anyways, […]

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Tags: Girl power · Growing up · Body image · Randomness · General · Ideas · Check this out! · Femininity

Fallin in Love with my orchestra

December 8th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I have been playing electric bass for about 1 1/2, 2 years and I found out during the summer that my new upcoming school only offered an orchestra position for basses! I panicked! I had two choices:
a)I could ask my electric bass teacher to give me a lot of stand up lessons over the summer […]

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Tags: Growing up · General · Music · Love · Your style