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Some Birthday Words and a Gift

Some Birthday Words and a Gift

This weekend, That First Year celebrates two years of existence, which also means I’ve now been out of college for two years. I feel like I should have some sort of grasp on this “adulthood” thing, but despite what idealistic-dreamy-girl-college-me thought, I still have no real idea of what I’m doing with my life. They don’t really tell you in college that you never actually “figure life out,” do they? Turns out life isn’t a problem to be solved or a puzzle to be figured out after all, it’s just a string of days—good ones and bad ones and meh ones—to be lived in wild abundance. These two years have definitely been a lesson in this.

Career, Dreams, Graduation, LifeAlly WillisDecember 17, 2016FeaturedComment

I Tend to Come Apart on Trains

I Tend to Come Apart on Trains

I tend to come apart on trains.

There's something about the liminal space of them; that in-between, not quite anywhere feeling that nourishes my reflective (and overdramatic) side. Throw in a sunset or a rainstorm, or any kind of weather that feeds my ability to wander the full spectrum of my emotions; add my headphones and a Starbucks Christmas takeaway cup, and you've got the recipe for a dreamy, introverted girl's fall-apart-on-a-train kind of situation.

Graduation, Dreams, Life, TravelIssy DaviesDecember 15, 2016FeaturedComment

Clicking Refresh: Life as Told by My Inbox

Clicking Refresh: Life as Told by My Inbox

Refreshing my inbox won’t make an awaited email appear any faster. I know this. Of course I know this. But that certainly doesn’t stop me from clicking that little circular arrow every thirty seconds. Waiting for good news—in this case, a coveted job offer—is excruciating, and if constantly reloading my Gmail makes it marginally more tolerable, then I will continue refreshing all day long.

Dreams, Career, LifeLiz DeadrickDecember 14, 2016FeaturedComment

At the Place Where Work and Magic Meet

At the Place Where Work and Magic Meet

I have never worked a job that didn’t take the magic out of the experience for me. For all the jobs I’ve had, I would much rather just be an audience member, popcorn in hand, pretending that I don’t see the stage ropes that are holding the flying actor up.

DreamsChelsey SatterleeDecember 11, 2016FeaturedComment

All We Have is Time

All We Have is Time

Several years ago, I was at World Market with a boy I loved, looking at dining room tables, and he’d just said he liked a certain one because it was the right size to work at and have the person across from you rest their feet in your lap. I replied, “I want to be her. I want to be the girl with her feet in your lap.”

Life, Dreams, RelationshipsAshlee LatimerDecember 4, 2016FeaturedComment

My Protagonist's Internal Conflict: What to Write?

My Protagonist's Internal Conflict: What to Write?

As young post-grad writers, we often find one another invited to the same pity party. It’s an ongoing gathering, one that Facebook pesters you about seven gazillion times a day. Officially, the event is called: What On Earth Are You Gonna Write About/Fulfill Your Lifelong Dream With/While Holding Some Shred of Dignity With Your Laptop and Cappuccino, held at Location TBD from 6:30 pm through eternity. And everyone in the written world is invited. There is also a 40 percent chance of rain.

Career, Dreams, LifeTessa DukeNovember 27, 2016FeaturedComment

Hope Lost and Regained

Hope Lost and Regained

I was in the middle of working on an assignment where I had to accompany a client home on the train. This first job after college had me crying some days over how stressful it was, on top of not being anywhere I had planned for my career to go. As the days progressed, I became more depressed, continually feeling less sane than the first day it hit me that this job had not been meant for me long term.

Career, Dreams, LifeRegan CunninghamNovember 22, 2016FeaturedComment

Mountaintop Moments

Mountaintop Moments

Removed from the college bubble and re-planted in a new life, the field is wiped clean again. I have to again make a real, conscious decision about where I fit in and how I stack up. There seem to be metrics in place for who’s “winning” post-grad—high-power job? committed relationship? best apartment? coolest city?—but there’s no prize.

Dreams, Life, RelationshipsMelissa WartenNovember 20, 2016FeaturedComment

Overcoming Perfectionism Amidst the Process

Overcoming Perfectionism Amidst the Process

You should know, and you may find it ironic, that you’re reading an article on overcoming perfectionism from a Class A perfectionist.

If anything, I hope it makes you feel less alone, less crazy, more understood, and more capable of overcoming its downsides. Because perfectionists are already harder on themselves than anyone else, so when others put their flaws in the spotlight, it’s crippling. Worse than crippling, actually - it is suffocating.

Career, Dreams, LifeKaitlyn HiltzNovember 19, 2016Comment

Somewhere Else

Somewhere Else

"I'm moving to Canada."

That's something so many of us have heard, or even said ourselves, over the past week once America's long-awaited election results stared us in the face. Canada's immigration site even crashed from too many disgruntled, scared, devastated Americans looking for a way out. Canada will be better, we thought. In Canada we can find our peace.

Dreams, Life, TravelAmanda BeadlescombNovember 17, 2016FeaturedComment

Learning to Abide

Learning to Abide

Have you ever felt as if you’re always two steps behind the life you had planned? I’m tired. I’m tired of wet eyes and a dry spirit. I’m tired of the dreams that keep me awake at night. And most of all, I’m tired of the burden of the life I’m not living as I crumble under its tantalizing weight.

Dreams, LifeDanica CotovNovember 15, 2016Comment

Between Burnout and a Thriving Place

Between Burnout and a Thriving Place

“So Ashlee, what are your big plans for tonight?”

I was in the middle of working as a production assistant for a week-long writer’s workshop, and one of the writers tossed out the question as we were all packing up to leave the space for the evening.

It was simple small talk, but I didn’t have a good answer for it.

Career, Dreams, Life, RelationshipsAshlee LatimerNovember 13, 2016FeaturedComment

Fear and Becoming an Adult

Fear and Becoming an Adult

Now that I'm graduating college the stress to make all the right decisions is heightened. It feels like if I make one wrong step now people will shake their heads, because they knew I would never be able to accomplish all my lengthy list of goals. I don’t want to be known as the girl who failed because she didn’t have whatever “it” is.

Career, Dreams, LifeCourtney SowderNovember 10, 2016Comment

On Being a Student When You Don't Really Want to Anymore

On Being a Student When You Don't Really Want to Anymore

This title fit perfectly across the top line of my notebook's page, left to right, when writing the first draft of this piece. If only the content fit as snugly across the length of my mind. It's strange to no longer associate with the label that has identified you for almost your entire life but have no option but to see it through. I've never not been a student, but I'm beginning to tire of it.

Graduation, DreamsIssy DaviesNovember 3, 2016FeaturedComment

When You Lose Your Head in the Clouds

When You Lose Your Head in the Clouds

For as long as I can remember, my school reports nearly always said the same thing: good student, does her work, but she is constantly lost in daydreams; her head is always in the clouds. And I grew out of a lot of things but never that.

Dreams, CareerEmily AllsoppNovember 2, 2016Comment