There are very few times in life when you’re given the opportunity to start fresh. I’m not talking about showing up on the first day of school with the sense that you’ve completely reinvented yourself over the course of the summer, when you’re really just the same old you, only with freshly sharpened pencils and a…
Today, I wanted to gather together the poems that never fail to make my heart race. Some are about romantic love—and of course, there’s a heaping spoonful of Pablo Neruda in that section—while others are about the little moments that make you appreciate life’s fragile beauty. I hope that they have the same impact on you that…
Do you ever have days where your emotions feel closer to the surface than usual—as though it would leave a bruise if someone so much as looked at you the wrong way? In the trying time that we’re living through as a society right now, I know I’m not the only one who’s been having…
I learned a number of difficult lessons on my twenty-first birthday—a day that I remember now in snapshots: Sitting impatiently behind a desk in espadrilles and my favorite dress, determined to start celebrating the moment my statistics exam was over. Dialing my long-distance boyfriend’s number again and again, my eyes searching the clouds for the…
I recently had the huge honor of meeting one of my personal heroes: U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren. Though I did once consider running for office, my admiration for Senator Warren isn’t purely political: There are few people out there today, in any field, who are able to set aside their fear of not being liked…
Most people have bittersweet feelings about winter—myself included. We associate it with the uncomfortable sensation of the cold nipping at our noses and fingertips; the difficulty of staying awake in long hours of darkness; and the grueling act of shoveling snow and chipping ice off of our windshields. A wise person once reminded me, however,…
During the hiring process, it’s dangerously easy to get caught up in proving that you’re the right person for the job, rather than assessing whether the job is truly an ideal fit for you. However, when it comes to being happy with your job in the long run, making sure that the company values work-life…
