mizChartreuse || redefiningSuccess

I’m going out on a limb here to say something that may rub quite a few people the wrong way. I hate school. Knowledge is power, but the higher education system is a trap. Education is vital to an individual’s personal development, but a university degree is, for the most part, an illusion (or delusion) [...]

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Traditional journalism and the media disgust me…and this is coming from someone who spent years and years “toiling” in journo school. After attending two previous institutions of higher learning, I enrolled at Dominican University in River Forest all bushy-tailed and bright-eyed: “I’m gonna be a WRITER! I want to pursue TRUTH! I’ll see my name [...]

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I love writing. It’s the only thing I care about, really. However, I do NOT like writing as much when it’s something I HAVE to do. Actually, that goes for most things in life. I much rather prefer to do things because I WANT to and LIKE to, not because it’s mandated. In fact, pretty [...]

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When I first went away to college and lived at the dorms at NIU, I could function on very little sleep, talking to people like Natalie and Scott on AIM all night and playing pranks on my floormates. It’s only been a few years, but my horrid, erratic sleep habits have finally caught up with [...]

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I already miss two nights of work each week for my evening classes (that is, when events are scheduled on those days, which they often are). This week, two professors in different classes are requiring me to attend other extracurricular activities. One is an Etiquette Dinner on Thursday, for which I’d pay $15 to have [...]

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