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Conversations From 20-Somethings

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A couple of weeks ago, my former professor asked me if I would be interested in coming into one of her classes and talking about my post-grad life. I was excited about the idea because I absolutely love my university, but I am nervous about it because as much as I have learned in the last year, I’m not sure if anything I say will be able to prepare these students for what their life will be like outside of the Capitol Hill neighborhood and their Jesuit education.

When someone asks me about my life at college, I could talk their ear off. It is where I started this blog. It is the place that instilled in me the core values that I take into my life today. It provided me with opportunities that I never thought were within reach and I was able to imagine ideas and turn them into creations and traditions. There are many current students and graduated students who can relate to my feelings on our university and for that we have been given both a blessing and a curse.

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Thought Catalog Roundup

Sometimes we need to see things from another perspective…

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{Follow Up} With Veronica Lim

Readers, I am so excited to be sharing the news with you that we will be catching up with all of our former guest post contributors! I first announced this back in January, but now it’s finally happening! This installment on Yow Yow! was well-received by all of you, our friends, family, and community. It’s been over a year since we’ve last heard from our contributors so I thought it would be great if we could check in with them and see what’s going on in their lives, how their views have changed, and how they have essentially grown up. First up is my dearest friend Veronica Lim. For a refresher, check out her first post here and her follow-up below. 

Katie sent me a follow-up guest post email nearly two months ago. Now I can’t say I’ve been too busy to respond or that I couldn’t muster up the right words to answer the questions she laid out. Rather, it passed me by as much as I let it. I mean that in the sense that I didn’t want to sit down and reflect on how I’ve changed or may not have changed. I wanted to pretend as if I didn’t need to because if I post-poned it then maybe it hasn’t quite happened. But the reality of the situation is that I wrote a guest post for Katie over a year ago and much has changed with the world since then. And I’ve changed whether or not I meant to.

These days I don’t press snooze 12 times before waking up. I became a little bit of an adult by waking up every morning and getting ready for work. With coffee in hand, I catch the bus, find my way to Lower Queen Anne, and spend 8 hours thinking about work lyfe before commuting back home. Perhaps this sounds monotonous and dreadful. The kicker is – I absolutely love the experience life outside of Seattle University provides. These days life is wrapped up in a place called Marx Foods, my apartment, family, and the friends that I’ve been fortunate to keep post college.

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Family-Style Lunch For Students

One school in Philadelphia is testing out family-style lunches and the students love it! Not only is it teaching them manners at the table, enabling them to try new things, but it’s also teaching them portion control as well – something that is so crucial today as many kids are becoming obese at a younger age. I think this is such a great idea and I hope it expands to other public schools as well.

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One Year Ago Today

- I gave advice to college students. [Source]

photo cred | The Coveteur

- My style icon, Louise Roe, became the Glamour Editor-At-Large. [Source]

- Yow Yow! had an insanely fun Song of the Day!

- I shared with you all my favorite eye liner of all time by Stila.

- Madonna tried to sway people to attend her show. It didn’t really work.

- We learned about what kids were learning from school. Not much.

- Our favorite internet memes become movie posters that we wanted to buy. [Source]

- We were given the Sasquatch 2012 lineup!

- I was impressed by Jeopardy.

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I Kind Of Wish I Were In A Sorority

Not really. But only if this happened to me. The ladies of Delta Delta Delta at the University of Southern California were graced with the presence of N’Sync’s JC Chasez serenading them with The Lumineers’ “Ho Hey.”

I don’t know why I like this so much, but …don’t act like you wouldn’t freak out in a situation like this. You would. Everyone would. Everyone would react more intensely if it may have been Justin Timberlake…maybe.

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When You’re Not A Student Anymore

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You’re not a student anymore when you receive your first phone call from your Alma Mater asking you to donate back to your school to give other students the opportunity that you had. I have been WAITING for this type of phone call mostly because quite a few of my friends have received one and each time they rant on Facebook how they got one and were a little bit annoyed because they just made their first student loan payment.

To me, it was the most endearing phone call I have ever received. Dear Matt who is a new freshman at Seattle University, your job is not an easy one and I’ve been in your place before, but the way you sold me on what a wonderful institution Seattle University really is made me want to donate. In all honesty, I am going to donate someday, but not when I’m drowning in student debt. I’m going to wait until I am more of a refined adult and hopefully by then it will mean something! Thank you for doing what you do. Your call tonight reminded me that Seattle University educates in more ways than one – more than just books and in professors – but in having your very first job and how that will impact you for the rest of your life.

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Thought Catalog Roundup

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University of California Identity

If only colleges were this cool when I was there…last year or even when I first applied four years ago! The University of California is stepping up their game with their new branding movement entitled “Identity.” I don’t even know anything about this school, but already I want to learn more because of the way this video sucked me in.

It is perfectly modern, youthful, and engaging.

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DateMySchool

Over an accounting study sesh with my friend Alexis one night back in college, we came up with this idea to start a speed dating service for students at our university. HOBviously, this idea never took off, but it was interesting enough at the time for us to come up with a name for it. “More for the Win.” Other than that name, we basically had nothing other than a problem that we wanted to solve. Attending a small university can make it difficult to meet other people sometimes and when you start getting accepted into your respective schools, the only people you see are the ones in your classes. You have all of the same classes with the same people – also did I mention the disappointing gender ratio? 40% male to 60% female.

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So when I stumbled across a post this morning called “Date My School” – deemed sort of like a speed dating service for university students, I perked up!

DateMySchool is available to current students, grad students, and alumni and to eliminate all sketchy people, you have to have a university email address in order to be verified. You never know who you’ll meet online so I’m glad that this is a requirement and weeds out the people that maybe don’t belong in this type of service.

I’ve always been a little bit hesitant about the idea of online dating mostly because it never really seemed like a sure thing. However, one in five couples have met online…and these days it seems to be pretty popular. I’m intrigued by this idea – not for myself, but about the idea in general. Learn more about DateMySchool and while you’re at it, check out Grouper! They’re also fairly new and something that I was interested in.

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