To Accept the Opportunity to Challenge Yourself, or Keep Your Mindset Closed

Depending on how well you know me, you'll know that I have a hard time getting out of my comfort zone. While I embrace challenges in the workforce and during my academic endeavors, it's always been hard for me to burst out of my comfort zone in social settings. For instance, I don't care to try …

Monthly Music (and Update): September

Oh my goodness! It has been way too long since I've last write in a blog post. I mean, there was a lot going on this past month. I moved into my apartment, I was still adjusting to working full-time, and there was just so many different items on my list that I had to …

How to Kill Writer’s Block: Julie’s Edition

Now that I have more time on my hands because I'm not juggling internship(s) with my academics and social life any longer, I finally have spare time to dedicate to blogging! I know it sounds horrible, but I used to want to just relax and do nothing when I could finally sit down to breathe. …

15 Conversation Starters

If you know me in real life, you know I am an extremely inquisitive person. I love getting to know individuals on deeper levels and asking long-winded questions that are thought-provoking and potentially really random. Of course, I typically ask the most basic questions ever like: where are you from? where did you go to school? …

Monthly Music: July

Ah the month of June - what bliss you brought. But with some relief, you are over, and I can now become an "adult" during the month of July  - yikes. Also, the summer season has officially "started" now that America's birthday has come to a closing. July 4th, you crazy son of a ....yeah, just …

The Apartment Search is OVER.

To keep y'all in the loop in regards to the apartment search that I mentioned a few weeks ago in a different blog post, I wanted to tell you that everything has finally been settled! I kid you not, I dragged the apartment search on, not purposely, but it could have all been avoided if …

There’s Nothing like a Nice Shabbat Dinner

My mom works like a dog. Standing approximately at 5 foot with some of the shortest legs you may have ever seen, my mom is basically as quick as flash, and it is so incredible to see how much she can do in less than 24 hours. Almost every Shabbat -- the Jewish Sabbath that …

Monthly Music: June

I believe it's finally time to welcome to summer season, and what better way to do that than sharing a few of my favorite summer songs, which consists of reggae, reggae-fusion rock, and acoustic singer-songwriter genres?! I can finally roll my windows down while waving my hand out the window and vibe and sing to these …

So the Stress Begins…

Looking for your first job, searching for your own apartment, and scouting for your life partner. Which do you believe is the hardest? For me, I am unable to answer that question because each are extremely and entirely different, although the stress overlaps.  For instance, your first job may dictate where you live and what the dating …

Monthly Music: May

After taking a *spontaneous* road trip with my family to Nashville, Tennessee; Louisville, Kentucky; and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; I had reconnected with my folk/indie/alternative "roots." And so, my May 2017 playlist was born. Due to a cute local that I had connected with while down in Nashville, I had discovered more of The Head and the …