If you’re like me, you prefer not to live with college roommates. Not only do I have to adjust to someone’s living conditions, but I have limited space. I’ve had my fair share of bad roommate experiences and regrets on my own end, but they definitely could have been a lot worse. In fact, these […]
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Aoki Simmons was trending the other day because of…… a poem. At first, you may think this it’s dumb these days to trend over a poem considering all the stuff that’s going on today AND because poems is a form of self-expression. However, the poem expressed her frustrations with being a black girl in a
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College degrees are accomplishments. But in the midst of competitive job-hunting and low chances of actually getting a well-paying job with benefits, is having a college degree worth it? Graduates With No Jobs This is my biggest fear in the next two years: graduating with no job. I hear horror stories of people being unemployed
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Oh, boy, do I love reading rejection emails. I’ve been getting rejected left to right over the summer so why wouldn’t I love them. In all seriousness, I’ve grown pretty numb and every time I do get rejected, I see it as a sign. A sign that the job or internship wasn’t meant to be.
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Being black is a blessing and a challenge. NYU has always been my dream school. Like any high school senior, I was excited to be moving onto college. I wasn’t going anywhere far compared to the rest of my friends, but I always loved the city. I’m a Bronx girl and I guess I always
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Depression sucks. It really does especially in college. Out of all semesters here at NYU, my spring semester has left me feeling the most shitty. With loads of assignments, loads of rejections and not hearing back from these awful companies, and issues with the people around me, it’s hard to have this upbeat face. Soon,
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A few days ago, I did the impossible. I attended my first college party. My classmate had guts to invite a bunch of people including me. She told me no one ever goes to the events here and there is such a difficulty here to make friends. I couldn’t help but agree and I was
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I have said it a million times that I go to NYU. However, I find myself having a love/hate relationship with it. Thinking about it, this list may have more “hate” than “love”, but the I’d say the “love” can really make a difference. NYU: The Good My freeride– I am here on a scholarship
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I’m taking this class at NYU that focuses on 19th-century novels. Particularly the focus is on married women. Our first assignment was to read a couple of texts surrounding European women of the 19th century. If you read my blogs, you would know how conscious I am with everything. Almost every department or industry is
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As I write this, I’m really pertaining to black women, though anyone else can definitely read this for inspiration. Almost every industry from music to television and fashion is dominated by white men. As a future black female screenwriter, I know Hollywood is competitive and racist. I literally had a breakdown over how hard it
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