Ellen Slater

Five Friday Favorites 05/22/15

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Happy Friday! I hope it was a lovely week and I hope you have a nice weekend planned. It’s a long weekend for me, thanks to Memorial Day, so I’ll still have two days of no work classes to enjoy after I fly back to Chicago tomorrow night. Anyway, it’s been a pretty good, if slightly crazy week on my end. Let’s end on… View Post

Thinking Out Loud #15

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This week has been better (but possibly even busier?) than last. Originally, I didn’t think I really had all that much to share, but that’s changed a lot in the past day or so. Thankfully, it’s Thinking Out Loud Thursday, so I get to spill all my random thoughts. Thanks, Amanda! 1.) Like I said Tuesday, I have been trying to… View Post

Being Okay with Uncertainty

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A thing I’ve learned since coming to college is that exactly zero people really know what they’re doing about… well, anything. Whether mine or a friend’s, I experience a mini crisis at least twice a week. Fourth year students who have jobs lined up for after graduation have assured me that they’re just as clueless and lost as first years (like me!)… View Post

I Didn’t Post Much Last Week

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Hi there! Happy Monday – or let’s make it one, okay? Like the title says, and like you (hopefully?) noticed, I post much last week. I wrote about my fabulous weekend home and then I stopped. Why? Well… Ugh. Okay, last week really wasn’t a good one for me. I felt really generally awful physically and mentally. Nothing felt right… View Post

What a Weekend

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Going home in the middle of school is not always the best idea (for me, at least). My break time feels like it goes a little too fast, I don’t do everything I planned on doing, and I return to school feeling more overwhelmed than when I left to take a breather. But I might be getting the hang of it, because… View Post