A 5 cent can

The expression “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure” is completely true. Although we may not find it true every second of everyday, it does exist. Garage sales, for example, provide prime opportunities to find hidden treasures, from a vintage picture that fits perfectly in your apartment to a CD you’ve been looking for since [...]

Mydentity: Part II

So wayyyyy back when I first started this blog I wrote a blog talking about mydentity, which is basically my way of desribing who you are (my + identity). Anyways, at the time I talked about losing yourself and feeling like everyone else forgets who you are, but now I have a different meaning for [...]

Random Thoughts

ever wonder why the world crashes down on you all at once? Why all your midterms are perfectly aligned back to back to back to back? How when one rock falls a mudslide starts? Life is funny like that. Rather than spacing everything out, it allows us to have fun, then stress out, then have [...]

Life isn’t always fair

There are so many times in life in which you have to do something that you really don’t want to do. It’s a conflict between your mind and your heart and either way you choose, you can’t seem to win. “Love is Blind” is a great quote because of the truth that it holds; your [...]

Change

I realize the one fear I have the most in college is change. I’m scared that if I take a particular path, I will lose who I am. I will lose what I care about most, who I care about most, and what I love doing most. In my head, I tell myself that although [...]

Tough Times & Tough People

I recently read a quote that said: 
Tough times don’t last, but tough people do “
In our time of economic crisis, we need to understand that it is not the situations that define our country, but our actions towards them. We are the strongest country in the world, a country that happens to be going through [...]

being little was so damn fun

How often do you find yourself talking about the days when you were in elementary school or even the beginning years of middle school? It’s because those were the days in which you’d move on to the next grade with all D’s, where you didn’t have to worry about tests scores to get into college, [...]

I have hope for humanity

So I haven’t written on this blog for a while, but today I felt like I really needed to. So after work, I really wanted to play some basketball, either with my friends or by myself. When I went around to all of the local basketball courts, they were full, so I decided to just [...]

When…

It seems like every year I tell myself things are going to change
Things are going to finally shift in my favor so that life itself will seemingly slow down just for me
I tell myself this every summer, saying that THIS summer things will change
I tell myself I’ll learn a new language
I’ll study to prepare for [...]

Significant Influence

How often do we acknowledge how much influence teachers have on the development of young children? Answer: Not very often. When you’re in elementary school, the difference between a good teacher and a bad teacher is so crucial, but is barely noticed. A good teacher will allow students to flourish and thrive, learning on their [...]