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  • I’m now halfway through my senior year, with one more semester to get through before entering the real world and paying off student loans until I’m 40. Really though, this past semester challenged me in many ways, and I’m definitely a different person coming out on the other side. I feel like this semester was…

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  • Rocksbox Review

    Before a week ago, I had been wondering about Rocksbox for a few weeks – it’s a jewelry rental service that lets you try out jewelry for $21 a month. So I finally decided to try it out. I would get my first box free, so I figured why not. It’s pretty fun – you…

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  • I’ve been with my boyfriend for almost four years – we started dating our junior year of high school. Every relationship is a learning process. But long term relationships, especially during the really formative years of your life, can be difficult to maintain if you’re not putting the effort in. My boyfriend, Tanner, and I…

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  • Why Girl in Pursuit?

    For a month, I thought of many different names to rebrand my blog with. For more than a year, my blog was titled “Journey,” but I knew I was going to want to change it eventually. When summer rolled around, I knew it was the perfect time to start rebranding and changing my website around.…

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  • Here’s a round up of my favorite photos I took this summer. Many, as you can see, are my sister since she is always a willing model! Most of these were taken in San Antonio and Austin in Texas and the Chicago Botanic Garden.

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  •   San Antonio is a Texas gem – there’s a ton to do there. I’ve compiled a list of places my family and I went to that I would definitely recommend to anyone heading to San Antonio. We did this all in less than two days too, so fitting this all in a short amount…

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  • I used to hate having pictures of me taken. Although, this was when I had braces and hadn’t quite made it through puberty yet. Still, I prefer to take pictures of other people, but since starting this blog I’ve had to get used to having pictures taken of me. Taking pictures for my blog is…

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  • College is basically a four-year transition to real life, and that means more stress. Managing anxiety or stress while being a college student can be hard because you’re still learning how to take care of yourself mentally. There’s also a difference between anxiety and stress, although you can have them both (as it often happens,…

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  • I’ve been big on “girl power” since I was in elementary school, but it wasn’t until my sophomore year of high school that I realized what feminism was, and that it was something I definitely wanted to be a part of.

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