What Is Beauty To You?

Beauty is hard to define. In some cultures, beauty is defined in dance or music, in others beauty is defined in dress, and in others, intellect and success can be seen as beauty traits.

Watch the Audio Slideshow profile above on 20 year old Faith Fletcher as she describes how beauty is something much more versatile.

4 Important Must Do's While You're In College

     Parents always tell their children not to rush life, time will do that itself. They were not wrong.

     Time flies, that's one concept of life that we can not control. We can not pause or reverse time, therefore we must live in the present and make the best of it.

     As college students, we are always focused mostly on the future and caught up on the past. A students most scared thought is failing and that they will regret not doing something or taking an opportunity to live their college experience to the fullest.

     Here are 4 things you must try and do before you graduate college.

1. Travel Abroad: 

     If there is one thing that is constantly repeated to you in college, it is that you must take advantage of study abroad programs. Wouldn't you love to be doing homework or studying and look out of your window and see a completly different venue than what you are used too? 

     Every college that participates in study abroad has specific programs to different countries and can be related to your major. They offer winter, summer, fall and spring semester opportunities. Study abroad adds a unique and strong experience qualification to your resume and broadens your personal perception.  

2. Live Off Campus:

     Living off campus usually, depending on colleges, is allowed after your freshman or sophomore year. When you are living in the dorms, all of your living expenses are covered from your financial aid. You are also assigned to a Resident Assistant who make's sure you are following all of the rules and gets you more informed or involved on campus. 

    Moving off campus is a completly different experience. You pay rent, receive monthly bills, have to cook for yourself and basically be more of an independent adult. Living off campus may sound a bit more complicated than living on campus but there are so many perks!

     It is usually cheaper, you get your own spacious room that you get to decorate yourself, no RA's telling you what to do and you get a sort of first hand experience of how it will be when you are really living in your first apartment. 

3. Get An Internship:

     Getting an internship is like traveling abroad, you add experience to your resume and you are more qualified in whatever field you wish to pursue. The average time in college when most students apply is their junior year, when they are more sure of what they are studying and focusing on career wise. 

     There are hundreds of opportunities for every major, paid and unpaid and some even offer college credit. The most important part of getting an internship is that if you do well with the company they could offer you a full time job after you graduate college!

4. Get Involved On Campus:

     Join clubs of interest on campus for fun or for hands on experience for your major, go to student invited alumni events, go to extra credit lectures, shout in a rally or protest, play a sport and go on campus trips! 

     All of these are great ways to make new friends and make the best out of your college years. Sometimes it may seem like there is absolutely nothing going on, on campus yet if you look there is always something new and exciting to try. So get yourself out there! 

     Life is what you make it. Make sure you don't ever look back and wish you could have done something different. Take chances, make mistakes and learn from them and enjoy time while it is still present!

 

     Here is a video from Buzz Feed on "15 Experiences Everyone Should Have In College."

Body Positivity Meets Self-Care

     A couple weeks ago their was a post about body image and the negative impacts that come with how media shapes the ideal perception of how we as women should view ourselves.

     This post is all about body positivity and self-care! 

     When you are confident about who you are and what you look like, this glowing beauty shines out of your whole entire body. Nobody or anything should tell you who to be or what to look like in order to fit their standards. 

     Of course in this day of age, it's hard to escape the tugging and pulling of everyday expectations saying, "look like this", "care about this", "try this look" or "this will make you feel better about yourself". 

     It is important to always remind yourself that you have to be the best for yourself and be comfortable in your own skin in whatever ways you want to do that for yourself. 

     Self-love and self-care are two very important things that you can invest in for yourself. Love yourself first and care about yourself more than you would anyone else. 

     You are the person that you critique the most in your entire life. On Tumblr I found an amazing list of things that involve self care within yourself. 

     Try these 15 steps to bring the best out of yourself and bring the positivity flowing throughout your veins! 

     If you are more confident with yourself, you will love every part of you, even the parts that society tells you to hate.

Take Back The Night

Take Back The Night is an extraordinary event that is fighting against sexual and domestic violence. Listen into my audio story to hear more about the event and students impact from it!