I'm going to assume that everyone reading this has been to school or is currently in school. Right now, you're either incredibly excited for Christmas coming up around the corner, or you're incredibly excited for the end of term. I tend to fall in the latter of those categories. Christmas is fantastic and every day ...
Most students will experience their first job interview between the ages of 14 and 16. They will show up in an ill-fitting but passable professional outfit and hand over a disappointing resume consisting of their GPA, community service credit hours, and honor roll mentions. Their mother will be so proud, and she should be. A ...
Professional development is a concept that used to seem foreign to me. I assumed that I would be participating in seminars, lectures, presentations, etc. of the sort when I was a professional in the career I chose. This past year has opened my eyes to many things, but perhaps one of the most important ideas ...
There are people in this world who are so passionately in love with what they do that they begin to hate it. It's not an uncommon or unreasonable fate that artists of any sort often fall into. Think about it - you find your passion, work at it every day, see very few early results, ...
I'm not failing any of my classes, but for the first time in my life, I'm not excelling in them either. It feels like shit. I have C's in most of my classes right now. Yesterday, I wrote about how exhausted I was. Part of that exhaustion comes from the fact that I am putting ...
Exhaustion is a tricky beast. Some days, you're fine, you can get through twelve hours without much trouble. Other days, you're better than fine. You can do so much within the time the sun rises to the time it sets, you wonder why you don't do that much every day. Those weird days though, those ...
After my weekend at the conference, I am beat. I have not been as tired as I am right now since I first came to Montreal a few months ago. I got in late last night and didn't get to bed until 1am this morning. I woke up at 8 so I could buy myself ...
