Surviving College Graduate

And I thought Freshman year was hard... Rolling with the punches that come from society when you're trying to grow up.

[sweetoothgirl]

Mini Peach Puff Pastry Tarts with Honey

[meowthiesaurus-deactivated20190]

Halloween is coming.

[nikkynarrates]

Just remember, you have so many good things in life to look forward to. You may not know what all those things will be, but one day you'll feel like you're where you're supposed to be and that feeling will finally stay.

[survivingcollegekid]

Moving Forward. Or Far Away.

I've been living with my best friend for the last two years and yesterday she left to move 19 hours to the South. I'm so proud of her and more than happy for her because this is the best thing she could have done for herself. But now I'm alone and sad. I'm stuck in the Midwest without the person I talked to everyday about everything for months. I'm so stressed about it that my body is revolting in any way it can think of. We barely knew each other when I moved in but within weeks there was no getting around the fact that we were bonding. She became the person that I grew to tell everything to and I was so happy because I finally built a friendship with someone that equally cared about me the way that I care about them. I have a handful of super close friends and I care about them deeply but I can't tell them everything and I don't expect them to confide it all to me either. The thing is that now I have to really take care of myself. And I'm afraid of that. But I'm determined to get my life together enough to move forward because even though I miss my best friend, I couldn't ask for better motivation. Now I need to be successful enough to afford to visit her often!

[survivingcollegekid]

My best friend moved 19 hours away yesterday and took my other bff with her. This cat.

[survivingcollegekid]

The Understanding of Not Understanding a Damn Thing

So I graduated college a few months ago with a BA and ever since then I have yet to figure out exactly what to do or how to do it.  I know that life doesn’t come with a manual, and even if it did I wouldn’t have any friggin’ time to read it.  I’d lose the ridiculous thing in the pile of forgotten books that line the baseboards of my room because I haven’t had any time to finish building my dream bookshelf.  

Right now I am in the position where I took the first full-time job offered to me due to that fact that it’s at one of my three jobs already and they wanted me to stick around while they get everything in order from some recent changes that occurred this year.  The bummer is that it’s a seasonal job, so I need to get something lined up by November.  The good news is that I have until November to figure out what I would like to do.  

That’s just one complication to my never-ending mess of priorities that still need to be prioritized.  I now have a full-time job, but my computer is broken, I’m still trying to figure out how to complete the EXIT Program for FASFA, my room is a MESS, annnd I got an OWI a couple of weeks ago.    MY LIFE IS A TRAINWRECK RIGHT NOW.  

All things considered, it’s actually not that bad at all.  But the biggest factor that I’ve come to understand is that I don’t understand hardly anything about the real world. 

[elleandhermione]

Rory Gilmore is a super important role model in education. She doesn’t just dedicate herself to learning because she cares about grades, but because she’s passionate about learning inside and outside of school. Passion is the fuel of knowledge. Hope her work ethic can help boost yours as we all head into that end of year madness! Good luck with whatever exams you’re taking, but don’t just admire her dedication. Go study, even if it’s only for a few minutes. Learning is never something you will come to regret and the success will be well worth the extra time.

[alexalltimeloww]

[kateoplis]

It turns out your conscious mind — the part you think of as you — is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

David Eagleman (via kateoplis)

Literally going over this right now in Personality Psychology Class 😱

[dropcapdesign]

[staypozitive]

[staypozitive]

[yamakucci]

[laurenurgayisshowing]

When your best friend gets back with her trifling significant other but you’re still there for her.

[leightum]

[survivingcollegekid]

I will forever Reblog this. 👌🏼

[coral]

[twloha]

Our friend tylerknott has a new book coming out soon, and he’s generously donating $1 to TWLOHA for every copy sold during the presale period. 

Get all the info here. 

[kitmarlo]

never has anything been so true (at The Fleet Street Press)

[kitmarlo]

tfw 9gag takes your photo, slaps its own watermark on it, and posts it on instagram to its 18.8m followers without credit (https://instagram.com/p/6a_TrSjJ9_/ ?????????)