It's official: my first year of college is over. I've passed all the exams, handed all my reports in before the final deadline, received the remaining credits. All the Is are dotted and all the Ts are crossed. I've been looking forward to this day for weeks, but now I feel a little lost... A lot has happened over the course of the year. I remember how nervous I was on the first day: I...

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Finally, finally, finally I can say it's summer. After months of looking at gray skies, the sun is now shining and the skies are blue. Even though I'm a winter person, I'm glad it's finally summer. I can wear my shorts again and won't have to hide my superhero shirts under sweaters anymore, but most important: no more socks! Socks and I have hated each others since my mom first put some teeny tiny socks...

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It's almost summer vacation, which means I'm busy studying for finals (or pretending to be studying). I don't have much time to write blog posts that are a little more interesting than a list of ways I'm wasting valuable study time. I really needed a quick and easy post idea, but was completely inspirationless. Luckily I got nominated for The Versatile Blogger Award by F from The Fence of Stars, thank you F! The rules:...

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I admit it: I'm not exactly a cheerful, optimistic girl. There are lots and lots of things that annoy me and believe me, you don't want to be anywhere near me when I'm annoyed. Right now I sound like a very grumpy teenager, but there are quite a lot of things that make me smile. Those things are often small things in the big picture of life and most people wouldn't give them a second...

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I've been to a lot of places: from San Francisco to Sydney and a lot of places inbetween. I've seen ghettoes and ghost towns, I spent a night in a motel that was inhabited by drug dealers and listened to the endless wail of police sirens in Miami, Florida. You'd think that all that big city craziness would have prepared me for staying home alone in a quiet small town. Think again. I may have...

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Over the past couple of weeks I've had a lot of trouble sleeping. That's not new to me: I was born with a sleep disorder. Some gland in my brain doesn't make enough melatonin to make me fall asleep, so every night I take two little melatonin pills to help me sleep. Most of the time that works great, but sometimes... sometimes it doesn't work at all. That's when I find myself panicking, overthinking and...

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I've been blogging for quite a long time now: over 2.5 years. The first year and a half I was just writing random life updates no one cared about (not even me). But then something changed. It all started with a post in which I tried to figure out if I was a hipster. I started writing lots of silly posts and hoped my blog would become popular and successful. It didn't. Sometimes I ask...

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Lately I find it difficult to open Blogger and write a good blog post. I don't want to write life updates or silly tags - those days are far behind me. I want to show off my skills, make people laugh, brighten their day or make them think. But lately I feel like I'm doing none of those things with my posts. It got me thinking. The past few months have been one big chaos...

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The reason why you should go, at least once, and pretend yournot antisocial :P When I was in high school, I never got invited to the 'cool' parties. I was known as the shy nerdy girl who didn't like drinking until she puked, so I wasn't fun to have at the average high school party. Things changed when I started college. Not a lot, I still prefer to stay at home with a good book...

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