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Continue reading →: REPORT #6: Last Week of College and SO MANY RecommendationsThis week was my last full week of classes ever! This coming week, I’ll be moving home to Louisville to live with my parents and save up. My parents and I are super close, so I am truly excited to have this time with them and Rory the dog. My…
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Continue reading →: Top 10 Must-Read Books This DecemberI will be wrapping up school forever as of this month (unless someone offers to pay for more), and with that, I am planning to spend lots of time rotting as a reward before I start full-time work in January. As per usual, I’ve set an ambitious TBR that I…
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Continue reading →: Book Reviews: My November Reading ListNovember was a crazy month for me. I wrapped up my final full month of college, I turned 22, and I kinda fell down a “How I Met Your Mother” rabbit hole. With that being said, I read a bit less than I usually do. Ready or Not by Cara…
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Continue reading →: REPORT #5: Feelin’ 22 and Sweet TreatsI skipped last week because of a cold, but I drove to Dayton, Ohio to visit one of my high school best friends. We went out, went shopping, and got to just catch up over lots of good food. This week, I got over said cold, celebrated my 22nd birthday…
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Continue reading →: Packing Guide for Semester at Sea: What to Bring – PART ONEAs I’ve said before, I was a student on the Spring 2024 voyage of Semester at Sea. Before my voyage, I struggled to find blogs like this one telling me what to pack and how much to pack and how to pack it. I’m an anxious person, so packing up…
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Continue reading →: Must-Have Gifts for a Cozy Holiday SeasonEvery year around Halloween, my grandma starts bugging me for a Christmas list so she can “get ahead of the game”. I’ve been the same clothing and shoe size since I was 12, so clothes wise, there’s normally only a few things I want. I’m also just not a big…
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Continue reading →: Weekly REPORT #4: Balancing Friends, Internships, and FunThis week was another crazy one! Last Monday, I flew home from Baton Rouge after a much needed weekend with some of my Semester at Sea friends and then got to have a night at home before driving back to school. This week at school was full of group projects…
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Continue reading →: Ultimate Nashville Travel Guide: Stay, Eat, DoLiving in Louisville, Nashville is just a 3 hour drive away. I’ve gotten the chance to go quite a few times this year, twice for concerts and twice for more of sightseeing. Nash is such a fun place and you can truly find something to do or eat on every…
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Continue reading →: Weekly REPORT #3I went out of town again! This week, I flew to Louisiana to visit two of my best friends from Semester at Sea. One of them attends LSU, so she asked me and another friend to come in for the Alabama game. But REWIND – First, I won a matchup…
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Continue reading →: Applying for Semester at Sea: A Complete GuideI sailed on the Spring 2024 voyage of Semester at Sea, and it 100% changed my life. Until that point, I had never left the country, so this was definitely a full send. I knew I wanted to go abroad and SAS fit a lot of my criteria. There were…
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