May 2012
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I remember being seventeen and fearless, pulling up to the new apartment with my Mom. We used a dented shoebox as a makeshift coffee table, and slept on the floor for two weeks while the moving truck made the slow crawl from Philadelphia to Atlanta. I watched a ‘1776’ DVD every. single. day. while waiting for the cable to be installed. I lived out of a suitcase. My hair was...
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So you’ve got this big, hairy, audacious goal.
And let’s be honest — it’s fun to dream. We do it all the time, thanks to endless scrolling on image searches. We do it on Pinterest. On blogs. In Travel + Leisure. In our Moleskines. On our corkboards. Out our windows. It’s a beautiful thing, this type of limitless thinking. Money and time aren’t an issue....
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I took my first last final today.
It went swimmingly. (That’s such a great word.) I went in with a plan of attack and crushed it. Said goodbye to my professor, and thanked her for the past nine months of pretty intensive Portuguese lessons.
Nine months.
She’s moving back to Brazil with her family. I hope I’ll get to see her one last time at commencement. I also hope that it...
April 2012
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“The better you write, the higher you go; people who think well, write well.”
– David Ogilvy (via wellandlighthouse)
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“Being a geek is all about your own personal level of enthusiasm, not how your...”
– The Mary Sue defines what it means to be a geek, a beautiful definition that falls (un)surprisingly close to what it means to find purpose and do what you love.
(↬ It’s Okay To Be Smart)
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Portrait of an INFJ →
Have you ever taken a Meyers Briggs personality test? I did, *finally*.
INFJs are gentle, caring, complex and highly intuitive individuals. Artistic and creative, they live in a world of hidden meanings and possibilities. Only one percent of the population has an INFJ Personality Type, making it the most rare of all the types. #INFJ
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Space: “You can’t become playful, and therefore creative, if you’re under your usual pressures.”
Time: “It’s not enough to create space; you have to create your space for a specific period of time.”
Time: “Giving your mind as long as possible to come up with something original,” and learning to tolerate the discomfort of pondering time and indecision.”
Confidence: “Nothing will...
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March 2012
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February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
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Hello again big, beautiful world :)
Another semester is over, and another winter break has begun. I posted the sticky note below before classes began this August, as an apropos “away message”, and took my own advice in the interim. Suffice it to say — it’s definitely working in my favor so far. I love being humbled and from that humbling, encouraged to reach a greater...
August 2011
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Watchfuturejournalismproject:
TED: Mike Matas: A next-generation digital book - Mike Matas (2011)
Great example of a book on an iPad and iPhone. Some really nifty interactive stuff in there.
July 2011
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newsweek:
President Barack Obama is hosting a Twitter town hall later this afternoon, and we’d like to use our Twitter account (1.4 mil followers!) to amplify one question from our Tumblr readers. This can be anything from gay marriage to Libya to the ongoing debt debate. Just submit yours by 1pm ET and we’ll select our favorite before the event starts at 2. Ready? Tell us: Do you have a...
June 2011
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On Decisions.
Thank you to reader Ashley, who sent me this email earlier today - her question is one that I feel might help those students who take an academic interest in left and right brain studies (although that whole thing is up for debate!), so I’m posting my response here for anyone who might stumble upon it. In an effort not to sound like too much of a commencement speaker, and...
May 2011
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Well, it’s summer.
I’m still coming off the electrifying buzz of TEDxEmory, which we held on April 23, 2011 on the Emory University campus. Our team, a small and tireless group of undergraduates, pulled off a major victory!
From the 3 a.m. conference calls on Skype, to the campus-wide poster plastering, it was almost a full time job. I had a blast working one-on-one with speakers,...
April 2011
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March 2011
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