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  • Music, God, and everything inbetween [This is Thirty series]

    ::Tangent:: Previous post: Junior year Music is an escape. Music is a form of expression. What I listened to affected me in multiple ways. I would listen to Nine Inch Nails and Tool when I wanted to release my anger. I would listen to Vanessa Carlton and Alicia Keys when I wanted to feel romantic.… Read more

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  • Junior year [This is Thirty series]

    Previous post: Sophomore year This summer I worked desktop services at Hewitt Associates. It wasn’t my first choice given it was IT work, but the pay was the best I could imagine getting as a poor college student in the year of 2006. $11/hour and a full time schedule of 40 hours a week. I… Read more

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  • Sophomore year [This is Thirty series]

    Previous post: Freshman year Picking up from where I left off, I started the summer after my Freshman year feverishly applying to as many jobs as I could once I got home to my parent’s house. After a few weeks, I ended up being offered two jobs: a cashier at Jewel for $6.55/hour and a… Read more

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  • Sunday Morning [This is Thirty series]

    Previous post: Freshman year ::Tangent:: Sunday Morning is hands down one of my favorite No Doubt songs. It’s off their Tragic Kingdom album, and it helped me through many break ups. This song applies to where I am in my story: it helped me move on from many guys that I liked and/or loved and… Read more

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  • School is back in session

    As school starts up again, and I receive more and more emails regarding ACT test prep, I can’t help but think about more important things other than ACT. Don’t get me wrong, ACT is important. You have to take the test in order to get into college. Depending on what school you want to go… Read more

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  • Freshman year [This is Thirty series]

    Previous post: High School I left off the story at the end of my Senior Prom. After Prom, I graduated from high school and had a graduation party. At this party, most of my friends and family celebrated with me. Right around this time, one of my guy friends flirted with me and confessed that… Read more

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  • Two worlds [This is Thirty Series]

    ::Tangent:: Previous post: Highschool Growing up, I wasn’t your typical teenager. My dad was and still is a huge IT nerd. He always gave me the latest and greatest in the world of technology. I remember I was in 8th grade when he gave me my first laptop computer. My world changed once my friend… Read more

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  • High School [This is Thirty Series]

    Previous post: My childhood It was right around the end of middle school/beginning of high school when I discovered a band named No Doubt. It was a few years after Tragic Kingdom came out, but one day I heard “Don’t Speak” on the radio, and I instantly fell in love. At this time, I also… Read more

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  • My childhood [This is Thirty Series]

    Full Disclaimer: This blog is changing, as all things in life change. I’m going back to my roots in this series. This is my story. My childhood was a wonderful one. I grew up in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. I was born to the very definition of a white American working class family; my… Read more

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  • Just when I thought things were better…

    Does this ever happen to you? Just when you feel like things are going your way, and everything is looking up and cheerful, you get a punch to the gut that takes you back to square one.This happened to me. And it keeps happening. I’m stuck in what seems to be a never-ending cycle, one… Read more

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