The Real Deal

For those of you who don't know, I just finished my junior year at Bradley University.  Although I have had my ups and downs at my school, I absolutely love it and am so blessed to be able to attend such a good school and receive the quality education that I get. But as a senior, in high school, this was not an easy decision for me to make.  Even though decision day has passed for current seniors, I wanted to share how I ended up picking Bradley University. Orientation the summer before my freshman year As a senior in high school, I was different than most of my peers because I only applied to two colleges.  Yup, two .  I looked at way more, but there were only two schools that I could really see myself at, and those were Bradley University and the University of Missouri - or Mizzou.   These schools are so different from each other.  Mizzou is a huge state school that the majority of people in my hometown of St. Louis attend, and there...

These past few weeks, I have been the most stressed out that I have ever been.  Projects, exams, extra curricular activities...literally everything started to fall on the same days.  And it stressed me out.  The past few days however, I have really been hitting a breaking point.  I'm in a dance organization here at Bradley, and we have our show coming up this Saturday, which means it is currently tech week.  On top of having long, tiring practices every night this week, I have had three final group projects to work on, a final research paper, and beginning to study for finals on top of it all. But that's just school.  The washer at my off-campus house is broken, and I only have five pairs of underwear left, and have started to re-wear leggings from my hamper.  My kitchen has suddenly been infested with ants.  And my laptop acquired a virus in the middle of me writing one of my many papers that I have had due.  I am so exhausted, both mental...