A fan of my blog recently tweeted me to ask how I spend my day and what a weekly schedule of mine looked like. At first, I thought to just respond with a screenshot of my upcoming week in iCal, but I've decided others may actually find it helpful if I shared my recipe for an always interesting life. I'll be the first to tell you that sinking into a routine can be a very bad thing. Doing the same thing, the same way, day after day will result in complacency with mediocrity. With that said, I have a set of guidelines I try my best to live by daily and I'd like to share them all with you. I don’t...
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We’ve been taught from birth not to judge a book by its cover, but I’m afraid that in my opinion those who don’t judge a book at least a little bit by the cover probably have a much smaller success rate than those who do. Appearance matters, people. If I have learned nothing else in college, I have learned that if you want to impress someone – be it a client, an employer, or just a friend – you have to first get the opportunity to impress them, and good luck getting that opportunity if you don’t have an appearance worthy of their time; there’s a reason the public relations industry...
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With the coming of December, students all over the world like myself are plagued with finals. Traditionally, 3 or more tests crammed together into one hellish week, sometimes you even get lucky enough to take more than one test on the same day. These aren't just normal tests though, they're finals: these tests are both cumulative and worth more than any of the other tests you've taken previously. We're talking up to 50% of your grade; if you don't pass these tests, there's a good chance you won't even pass the class. Starbucks fills cups all over campuses as students disappear into solitude for one week....
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I've learned many-a-time that in professional situations (like a blog on your professional website) you should avoid politics and controversial topics, but that's just not me. I'm the type to bite my tongue when necessary, but when there is something that's important to me, I share this with the world. And this, my friends, is important to me;
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I'm asked on a pretty regular basis to share my experiences at The University of Texas at Austin with prospective students from all around that I met in years past. For those of you who don't know me personally, I'm from a very small town by the name of Henderson, Texas. It's your typical small east texas town with a population of about 10,000 people and - I'm fairly positive - just as many cattle.
Austin is a good 4+hour drive away, so before my college visit, I had never seen the city before. Anyone who knew me in high school new that I was dead set on attending NYU or UCLA, especially once...
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