• This Post-Grad Life: Grown-Up Sleepovers

    This Post-Grad Life: Grown-Up Sleepovers

    When I graduated from college, I told myself that I was never going to behave the way I had for the past four years. Especially since I was no longer going to be attending Thirsty Thursdays, Wasted Wednesdays and Tipsy Tuesdays, and there weren’t horny boys lurking around every corner. Essentially, ‘hooking up,’ in all of its glory, was taking a gracious bow out of my life.

  • This Post-Grad Life: It’s All One Giant Balancing Act

    This Post-Grad Life: It’s All One Giant Balancing Act

    Lately, I’ll be honest, I’ve been finding it excruciatingly difficult to balance my personal life and spread myself evenly across everything I feel I need to do. I understand I can’t be good at everything (I learned that when I auditioned for choir….), but when it comes to balancing what’s important in my post-grad life, do I have to have to pick only one of the five things I want to excel in?

  • This Post Grad Life: Mistakes Are the New Black

    This Post Grad Life: Mistakes Are the New Black

    Lately I’ve been behaving in weird, mysterious and dumb ways. I’ve partied on the occasional weekday. I went running back to a guy that didn’t deserve even the time it takes to bat an eyelash in his direction. I stopped working out because I thought eating less would make me happier.

  • This Post Grad Life: Out With the Good, In With the Better

    This Post Grad Life: Out With the Good, In With the Better

    Like any college girl, the only thing I could think about upon graduating was how I wouldn’t be able to wear sweatpants to buy Arizona Green Tea at the gas station at 2 P.M. on a Tuesday afternoon. I knew I was going to miss spending entire days sprawled out on my futon, watching Grey’s Anatomy re-runs and ordering Jimmy Johns for my mid-afternoon snack.

  • This Post Grad Life: Don’t Lose That Cocky Feelin’

    This Post Grad Life: Don’t Lose That Cocky Feelin’

    Alright post-grads, future post-grads, and people who think they are post-grads but are really just thirty-years-old and clinging on to their blissful youth. For some reason as a post-grad myself, I’ve found it easiest to write about things that depress me. I guess I just like an excuse to indulge in brownie sundaes nightly. But the truth is, the post-grad life isn’t depressing!

  • This Post Grad Life: To Be Passionate Or To Be Practical?

    This Post Grad Life: To Be Passionate Or To Be Practical?

    When I graduated, I was pushed into a world full of options. At first, I took all of the options, put them in a sack that was my mind and tried them on one by one. But as time went on, I realized one thing: I needed to do something that struck my passionate heart strings. I knew I could deal with whatever my occupation tossed me from then on if I had a big crush on it.

  • How to Beat the Economic Doldrums

    How to Beat the Economic Doldrums

    Straight from the dorm onto the street. This might seem to be the fate threatening college students graduating in our current economic doldrums. But there may be hope. There are methods for making yourself more appealing to potential employers.

  • This Post-Grad Life: Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself, Girl

    This Post-Grad Life: Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself, Girl

    After being shot into the real world, I picked up a dirty habit. While being thrown into something I was totally unprepared for (ehem, hey real world! It’s a pleasure!) it became nearly impossible to find any satisfaction in my life. I was so overwhelmed with emotions and goals, I became an angry, judgmental girl. And who saw the brunt of all that negativity? Me.

  • This Post-Grad Life: Dealing With ‘Why-Am-I-Here’ Syndrome

    This Post-Grad Life: Dealing With ‘Why-Am-I-Here’ Syndrome

    I have a strong belief that this column is about being extremely honest – even if my reputation as a stable human being is on the line. So, you wanna hear a depressing story? (Note: I think the following confession may have something to do with having to listen to Fergie squak for a ten-minute halftime show on Sunday.)

  • This Post-Grad Life: A Mid-Life Crisis at Twenty Three

    This Post-Grad Life: A Mid-Life Crisis at Twenty Three

    I graduated a decade nine months ago. In Hollywood years, that’s about five. I could have popped out a set of twins with Charlie Sheen by now, or at least put myself on Teen Mom and physically abused my crack head baby daddy.

  • The Post Grad Journey: “What Do You Want To Be?”

    The Post Grad Journey: “What Do You Want To Be?”

    I think it’s interesting how when you are younger people tell you that you can be anything you want to be, or anything that you will set your mind to. Although we all wish this was true, that’s not always the case. Come adulthood, people get caught up in stereotypes and expectations. And quite frankly, I’m sick of it.

  • The Post-Grad Journey: ‘Tis the Season of Student Loans

    The Post-Grad Journey: ‘Tis the Season of Student Loans

    Even though Christmas is on Saturday, I honestly couldn’t care less this year. With everyone around me so happy and festive, I feel like the odd-woman-out. However, I think I have a decent excuse. Instead of “Jingle Bell Rock” in my head and busy days spent shopping at the mall, I’m singing the Student Loan Blues while staring at my empty bank account.

  • The Post-Grad Journey: Thankfully Out of College

    The Post-Grad Journey: Thankfully Out of College

    Even though being a post-grad hasn’t been an easy ride (biggest understatement of the year), I have plenty of things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving season. So in honor of the holiday and my new “the bowl of stuffing is half full” mentality, here is a list of post-grad things worth celebrating this time of year: