....Or really, "goals for the remainder of the Summer", because who would've guessed that between work, grad school prep, apartment hunting, and a summer prerequisite course, I haven't spent much time writing? ;) Taking it back about 15 or 16 years for a second: when I first learned how to ride a bike, my Dad and I would spend evenings just looping around...

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Source: Eduroam This time last year, I was one month into my internship at the UK Mission to the United Nations (more about that here!) Spending every day in and around the UN and suddenly being thrown into giving in New York left me a little shellshocked, but I was incredibly fortunate to meet a great group of friends, many of whom were in similar...

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Sadly, this is about the only snow we've had so far this winter! Long time no see! I hit a bit of a blogging lull coinciding with the holidays, then had a very busy few weeks with family recently. I've loved reading everyone's "facts about me" posts on Instagram and blogs that I read, so I'm jumping back into today with my own...

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Follow my blog with Bloglovin  It's no secret that Fall gets a lot of attention from all sorts of blogs and social media outlets- who doesn't love a good selection of autumnal foliage and a plethora of cool weather outfits to pick from? Well, that hasn't quite been a reality this year in the DMV- of course the leaves have changed and fallen,...

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In honor of the UN General Assembly last week- a throwback to my last day as a diplomat in training :) Happy (almost) Friday! It's still hot on the east coast- almost ridiculously so, to be honest- so I'm spending my free time preparing for my next French immersion class, catching up on some TV, and doing a little online window shopping in hopes of...

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As September rolled around, my Mom joked that she actually missed back to school shopping. For the first time in who knows how many years, there is no purchasing of supplies of textbooks or lugging anything into campus housing! As a December grad, this is the first time I haven't been headed back to school in the Fall. Instead, I'll be spending my...

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Oh, social media... what would we all do without the ability to see exactly what friends (and strangers) are doing on a daily basis? ;) No matter how simultaneously rewarding and frustrating it can be having social media so embedded in our daily lives, there is certainly one benefit: the ability to mentally "visit" anywhere you can think of. Scrolling through Facebook, I...

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