The Students' Lifestyle

This year started off in a fog. With complications with school, finding work and the upcoming post college life has left me a little discouraged. I don't have any guarantees right now and that alone has left me not wanting to do anything and wanting to give up. Luckily, I have my husband and great friends to talk to. Being able to vent and talk to them about my problems let me know I'm not the only one who doesn't have it all figured out.  I'm starting to put my goals in front of me so I have something to work towards.

I know I'm not the only one who seems to be stuck in place. My advice is to rememeber that you cannot predict the future, but you can always plan for it.

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!

Hello world! Did you miss us? It seems like it's been forever since we last talked. Lately we've both been busy with our lives and dealing with school, so you can understand. The break was much needed. Having a blog is like writing in a diary everyday. At some point we all tried to have a diary, but couldn't keep up with it daily. How did Ginger from As Told By Ginger write so much in her diary? The weird part about not blogging were the questions from family and friends.

"What happened to  your blog?"

"You should totally blog about this!"

"Why have you stopped blogging?"

In all this time we didn't think people cared about our blog. It surprised us when people were asking about the blog and suggesting things to blog about.  Our blog is making a comeback bigger than Mariah Carey's Emancipation of Mimi album. Well maybe not that huge, but you get the point.  Here is what we've been up to.


Shannah T. 

 I'm  still having nightmares about spring semester. In my Public Relations campaign class we spent the whole semester working on a group project that was 90% of our grade. I swear that was so annoying. I've never been so glad to be done with a class. Needless to say I passed the class with an A.  I've also did a little summer school which was fun.  For a long time I was without a car, but I finally got my first car which feels weird because I never thought I would get a car so soon. I got the car last November, but I never blogged about it until now.  I've recently moved into a new apartment, which is amazing. I love the big rooms. I'm crossing my fingers and praying that this is my last year in college. That's right, I will be graduating in May if everything goes as planned!

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You already know surviving a Long Distance  Relationship is possible as long as both people are eventually willing to make it work. But just because it can work doesn't mean that it's not frustrating to keep up. There are always people around you that  make your relationship worse than it is. Then trying to spend time together are just a few of the many frustrations I've had with my LDR. I talked with The BF last night and we started listing the things about LDRs that we both hated.

The Distance
Duh! Of course this is the most annoying part of any LDR. You don't get to see your other half when you want to Without some serious planning.

The year is coming to a close and now that it's almost over, it's time to reflect on my past victories and mistakes over the year. No matter what obstacle I tackled I learn more about myself.  Here are 13 things 2013 has taught me.

Looking back at high school memories brings back lots of good and bad times for me. Although I am very, very, very glad it's over, there are a few memories from my years in high school that I do hold fondly. One of them was my very first high school pep rally that included the greatest pageant of all time.

Left to Right: Shannah and Tara

So we've been writing here at The SLS for a while, and just realized you guys don't really know much about the girls behind the blog. Anyone who's followed us for a while may remember that we used to post under pseudo names, but wanted to let down our guards and let you guys get to know the real us. So with that being said, we each came up with ten fact about us that we wanted to share. Enjoy!

L:Roll out of bed look R: a bit more effort

I got a reality check last week when my boyfriend bluntly told me I don’t have style. I was going on about what my favorite style looks were and tried to figure out what category I belonged in : girly, sporty or prep. when he dropped the bomb, “You have cute clothes, but that doesn't mean you have style." Ouch.

Finals are over, now it's time to recap some of the highlights of my second year in college. If  I can describe my second year in one word, it will be effort.  I must say that I have put an effort to try different tasks this year. Some of them did not go as plan, but it helps  me to accept disappointment and face my fears. A while back I posted a few goals that I've hoped to accomplish this year, and some I did attempt to try while other are left behind.