What to Do When You Hate Your Perfect Boyfriend [Ask Tuffy Luv]
I don’t know what to do. We’ve been dating for three years and now we’re about to finish college and I just can’t stand it anymore.
Taking on a Little Positive Thinking [Confessions of a Twenty-Something]
Though it’s so much easier to be a Negative Nancy about life, being positive will help you out so much more though it may take a little more effort to get there. I’m sure you’ve heard it a million times, but a positive attitude goes a long way. It’s true!

Adult Things to Buy for Your New Adult Apartment
We’re all kind of in that limbo stage or the words of Ms. Spears, “Not a girl, not yet a woman.” But this notion does not stop me from dreaming of days when I live in Downtown Chicago in my very own amazing apartment with grown-up stuff everywhere such as candles and plants. When people come over for dinner parties, they will walk in and gasp, “Katie! Your apartment is so…adult!”
Tuffy Luv Sez: Two Guys, One Cup
You’re now moving onto the next phase of your life. It’s time to decide who you’re gonna be as an adult. And you yourself, you don’t want to be with someone who drinks a lot, and you don’t want to be with someone you’re fighting with. And I think those are good choices.
10 Things Less Flattering Than a Graduation Gown
True Story: No matter how bangin’ your bod or how figure-friendly your outfit, there’s nothing flattering about a graduation gown. But when you’re standing outside as your grandparents snap 1,637 pictures of you lookin’ round and squat in that rayon muumuu, you can at least take solace in the fact that you’re not wearing this:
How to Get Them to Stop Asking Questions: A Guide for Graduating Seniors
So…big day is almost here. You ready for the real world? What are your plans?
If you’re cringing at the very thought of these questions then there’s only one possible explanation: You too are a college senior.
6 Signs You’re Suffering From Senioritis
There are a lot of different illness associated with different times of the year. There’s flu season in the winter. Allergy season in the spring. Sunburns in the summer. But around early April and May a different disease starts to take hold, and it goes after a very specific group. College seniors.

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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: Great Expectations Lead to Great Disappointment
Since graduating college, my personal expectations have turned backwards. That’s right – as a post-grad, I expect too much out of every beginning. I squeeze the shiz out of the orange before I can have a taste. It’s awful. I used to gain expectations through experience and now I have a ton of expectations before the experience. Result: I’m always disappointed.
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!
The Senioritis Bucket List
Remember Freshman year when every upper classmen you knew said “treasure the next four years, they go by so fast.” Well not to sound like a broken record…but they kind of do. I’m entering my last semester of college and this huge list of things I had planned on doing before graduating has kind of well, not been tackled at all.
Senior Files: I’m Graduating as a Single Lady
In high school I was a boyfriend kind of girl. I was never single for long, but instead jumped from guy to guy. I went through every relationship possible. I was in love, I was out of love, I was in lust, I was in good relationships and in not so good relationships. I dated guys that treated me like I was everything, and guys that treated me like I was nothing.

The CC Weekly Weigh In: College Taught Us Stuff
Can you believe that the school year is almost over? What about you, seniors? Can you believe you are thisclose to being done with college for.e.verrrr? OK, sorry….. Stop crying…… I didn’t mean to bring up such a sore subject….. I’m sorry….. Please. Please don’t cry.