Embracing Your Fears And Tossing Them Away [Confessions of a Twenty-Something]
It couldn’t be me! I only get rejection emails! Anyway, when I received this particular email, I was completely clueless to what it was regarding exactly, and that’s when I saw it: “Hello, Ms. Garrity. We would like you to come in for an interview.”
Everyone’s a Kid at Christmas! [Confessions of a Twenty-Something]
Omit the part about being single with no one to kiss under mistletoe or at midnight on New Years or the fact that you have to buy presents for people with the money you get from Unemployment, and it’s true! Being an adult during the holidays is a blast.

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!
7 Post-Grad Movies for Your New Post-Grad Life
If you’re hyperventilating while reading this because you’re a post-grad who feels overwhelmed by possibility or the pressures to get to a “real job”, never fear! I’m here to help take your mind off of things for a while and let you in on the lives of some fictional characters in the same place you are (but more miserable and dramatic).
It’s Okay That I’m Not Married at 24…Right? [This Post-Grad Life]
The other day, I was at my friend’s sister’s dinner party — she was throwing her husband a surprise birthday party — and I felt terribly immature. I mean, this girl had her LIFE together.
7 Quotes to Live By…and 1 That’s Terrible [This Post Grad Life]
In high school, I kept a notebook full of quotes. Seriously. It’s in my closet at my parents’ house now, completely chock-full of the cheesiest quotes I could get my over-hormonal 16-year-old hands on. Need an example of one? Luckily, I live at home and have easy access to the notebook. Allow me to share some of the highlights…
This Post Grad Life: Making Life Progress in Baby Steps
Lately, I’ve been in a huge, post-grad rut. There are so many things I wanted to accomplish IMMEDIATELY upon graduating from college (i.e. being a successful writer, getting my own studio apartment, making lots of money), and of course…none of that has happened. So all I’m left to do is sit and wonder why none of it is progressing at the speed of light.

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Expectation vs. Reality: Graduation Edition
The student life is getting old. I want to be a real person with a real job! I want to get home from work and be done for the day, no homework! I want to have time on the weekends! But I think that sometimes I get carried away imagining my glamorous post-grad life. In reality, graduation can be a really humbling experience.
This Post Grad Life: Wedding Bell Blues
Then we had one of those moments over the phone where if we were in person we’d be jumping up and down hugging each other and falling on the floor in a tangled excited mess. This was happening. My first girlfriend was getting married to a person she truly loved and my lady mind couldn’t wrap my thoughts around it.
This Post Grad Life: Stop Thinking So Much
If I were to ever win a gold medal in the Olympics, it would be for over-thinking EVERYTHING. I guess I fit the typical girl stereotype. It’s totally like me to stand in the cosmetics aisle in Target for 80 hours trying to figure out which type of mascara I want. I’ll over-think a text I’m about to send to someone I’m dating. I’ll over-analyze a conversation I had with a friend and turn it into something it probably wasn’t in the first place.
This Post Grad Life: Pausing for the Small Moments
I want to relive the small moments. I want to relive the teeny side glances, the sweet kiss goodbye, the surprise compliment I received, the heartfelt compliment I gave. And then I’m left feeling at a loss — feeling like, though I did experience all those things, I also didn’t.
This Post Grad Life: Things I Can’t Handle Like a Champ
College was a large Biodome for easy mistakes, debauchery, learning and living. And now that I’ve been out of college for a while, a few things have become irresistibly harder to accomplish without this grand ol’ biodome of easy living. I’ve dealt with the following combo platter of difficulties in the real world, and in every situation I contemplated ripping my hair out.

This Post Grad Life: Are 20-Somethings Taking the Bench?
My roommate and I can relate, we’ve both been single for a while, we both like to go out and have fun and we both like to dish about it. Naturally, our conversation led to something a little sacred in the dating world. Sexay time.