The Students' Lifestyle

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Getting out of the country was the best thing that's happened to me. It really made me realize I don't have to be stuck in one place forever. And I met some amazing people and saw some amazing things.

Pictures of New York and a Boston bakery

Before I flew off to Korea, one of my best friends and I took a two week tour of the east coast. We tried to make it educational by touring colleges, but honestly we just wanted to see the sights.

I began writing for my school's newspaper, The AUMnibus, during my sophomore year in college and have been writing there ever since. It's a great feeling to see your work actually be printed and published online for everyone to see.

Picture with BigBang's guitarists outside the concert

Seeing BigBang in concert was amazing and I ended up meeting some pretty amazing women through the trip.


Getting a car. I spent a good amount of time taking and missing the bus to get to my classes, which sucked because I had to wake up at least two hours before school to ready and wait on the bus. But then I bought a car which quickly eliminated all of the waiting.

Least favorites

Getting a car. I know I listed this in favorites, but the car was a lemon. I felt like I got sucked into buying it and I wasted lots of money fixing it up. I could have payed off a semester of school for all the money that thing cost me.

I worked a lot during college. I had to. That's not a bad thing in itself, but I allowed my work to consume valuable time I could have taken to spend with friends and family.  I now know how to balance work and life a lot better now and I won't let work take me over me like that again.




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Movie Nights were always a favorite memory in college. At my University there is $1 movie night, which allows me to see any movie in the theater for $1. $1 movie nights were only offered the first and third Wednesday of each months. Last year I went to every movie night.

Living in an Apartment. It's always great to have my own room and bathroom. I just love the privacy.

Dinner Nights
Sometimes my friends will have dinner nights at their apartment which were always fun.

Going to college football and basketball games were also a highlight from my college experience
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Least

Being alone.
 It seems like the older I got the more alone I was in college. One of my old roommate said  it best "you can always tell a freshman from a senior, freshman usually come in packs, while seniors usually walk alone."

College Food.

 The food is okay at times, but whenever the dining hall doesn't have a great dinner, I'm usually stuck eating a burger or pizza.

Hello 2016 and good-bye 2015! You know the old saying a lot can happen in year? Well a lot has happened to us. We each had our highs and lows, but we're still making it. We're both hoping that 2016 will be a great year. We want to thank all of our readers for staying with us another year  and we hope that in 2016 you will receive a job, a promotion,  get one step closer to receiving your degree. To recap 2015, we decided to list some of our favorite post from this year.

If you had asked me what death was in junior high, it would have been staying in Montgomery my whole life. Actually it's a well known fact among my generation and the one before us. My high school economics teacher even urged us all to gt out as soon as we could so we wouldn't be trapped here for the rest of our lives like he and others had been.  Not that Montgomery is the worst city ever. It's filled with historical significance and great food, but everyone knows that the city is a dead zone for anyone looking to thrive in the arts. So when I discovered SCAD -Savannah College of Art and Design- I knew that this would be my one way ticket out. SCAD would be thriving with creative people, in a big city, and the Atlanta campus was  only 2 hours away from home. So you can imagine my excitement when I opened my inbox one night and saw a
"Congratulations!" email from SCAD.

I literally cried. I had actually gotten in!

I have a huge imagination. This imagination is one perk of being the only child.  One day I was thinking about celebrities and what type of person they would be if they attended college with me. Here is my take on the type of college students some of these guys would be.

The Weeknd

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Lately, I've been obsessing over The Weeknd. If The Weeknd went to college, I would notice his hair before his face. (Side note: There is a guy that currently attends my University that has the exact same hairstyle as The Weeknd.)  Anyway, The Weeknd would smoke pot in his filthy dorm room.

This is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Brita for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine.

As you guys know, I'm going to Ulsan University in South Korea this summer and I'm getting ever more nervous and excited as I realize how close it's getting. The only problem I had was the shock of the ticket price and worrying how I was actually going to pay, since turning this down was a big no, no after the struggle I went through to even get to apply for the program. So as soon as I found about the cost I went to work on raising money.

Ideally, this summer should be filled with days on the beach, hanging out with your friends, and taking a break from all the school work before the next semester begins. But we all know that only happens in a perfect world. Instead, we're all working or interning while looking for ways to bring the tuition cost down next semester.

Luckily, there is a new scholarship open that can help you make this summer a little more stress free since that US students  can apply for right now! Yconic, a scholarship matching website, is opening up a new scholarship for American students so they can have a stress free summer and reached out to us to spread the word!

The yconic #StressFreeSummer Scholarship Program is open to both current high school and college students, age 13 or older, who will be attending an accredited university or college in the 2014-2013 school year. There will be three scholarships awarded totaling 15K dollars. It's super easy to fill out , AKA NO ESSAY, and there are three chances to win- if you act quickly!

Here are the important dates and info you need to know:

All entries received between:

Prizing for draws is as follows:

You can check out all the rules and regulations here at this link.

The deadline for the first drawing will be here in a few days, so hurry and go to  https://yconic.com/contest_entry so you'll have more chances to win! Good luck everyone!

If you know anything about me, or have been following the blog for a while, then you know that studying abroad is one of the top things on my Bucket List. South Korea and Japan have been in my top five countries to visit for a while. This summer I get to knock out one of those countries on my list because I'm going to be studying abroad this summer! At least, I hope I will.

This semester I got the news that my school would be continuing their study abroad program for South Korea. I was really bummed that I missed out on this last year and decided that this was the perfect chance for me to go. It was a lot of work to get the chance to even apply (long story, another post) but after days of waiting, lots of emails, and waiting in the Passport office 3 days straight, and the interview, I got an email saying that I had gotten in! Of course I was like


And then my eyes saw the price and my reaction turned to this.


I know some of you are rolling your eyes, because of course traveling abroad is expensive, but this price was really unexpected. This is only the second year that my university will be doing study abroad to Korea, and the beta group only paid $500 with scholarships. This year's cost is triple that at $1500 (after scholarships).

I only  have enough to pay for what I thought would be the initial cost (last year's price) , and had planned to rack up hours at work to gain more spending money, but it looks like anything I earn that's not going towards bills will be to foot the ticket price. And I'm positive I won't be able to get all the cash I need by July with just my job, since minimum wage salaries don't really equal up to much and I still have bills to pay. That's why I decided to start a Go Fund Me page to help me raise some money. I have a lot of different perks on the page that could be really beneficial to people just wanting to donate, or want to promote their blogs or businesses. If you can, please share this campaign with a friend, family, or colleague who may be willing to help! Other than that, there will be lots of fundraising and bake sells on my part. I'm trying to get in contact with others going on the trip so we can do some things together since there is strength in numbers. I'll keep you all updated on how my fundraising goes, and hopefully you'll be getting a "How My Trip to South Korea Went" post before the summer ends.

If you have any advice for me, please free to share it! And don't forget to donate or share my Go Fund Me page - I need all the help I can get!  

First off we want to say congratulations to all the graduates! We're seeing so many of friends taking the final step in their education and moving towards brighter futures. It makes us nervous that this will be us soon enough, and also happy that for all the people we know who don't have to take another Final. Unless they go back. And if so, God bless you.