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Post-Grad Files: Advice From the Other Side
One year ago today (it would’ve been if I hadn’t procrastinated this post, shut up), I experienced the biggest change of my life, to date. Every single day until May 13, 2022 had held at least some formatting, or promise of things to do tomorrow. But not that day. An entire lifetime felt like it…
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Reflection: Foundation Building
Often times when I sit down to write one of these posts these days, I wonder how the hell I was ever able to write one every single week. Then I remembered I started this blog 3 months before graduating, moved across the country, Max’s brain expanded a bit, and I moved once again back…
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Reflection: Sunny Times and Sunshine States
Happy Easter! Life has been going very well lately. There are a lot of downsides to a 9-5 lifestyle, as I will be the first to tell you. However, the scarcity of time it has imposed has forced me to take stock of what I actually want to do with my time – something I…
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My Very Good Music Opinions Present: Top 10 Albums of 2022
I’m a month late, but I still beat the Grammy’s, so that’s something. I hate the Grammy’s, and honestly most music review outlets, so I’m being the change I wish to see in the world. I’ve already had to have some reviews scrubbed from the internet recently, so I’m hoping none of these or any…
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The Stories I Tell
I’ve tried this post a few different ways, but still haven’t figured out what it is I need to say. To a large extent, this year was just far too big to try to recap. Where would I even begin? In the same year I graduated college, moved 2500 miles away, visited 10 national parks…
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Maybe Tomorrow
Maybe one day, I will have the capacity to just go the fuck to sleep. Today is not that day. My own lack of discipline continually hounds me. The lack of an ability to set out on a course and then follow through on it, or to know that my life would be improved if…
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Weekly Reflection: Changes
For most of this semester, I’ve had a pestering feeling that I had difficulty putting a name on. My relationships to my friends in my core friend group began to feel different, and that has only advanced in recent weeks. Finally, after exclaiming to a couple of my closest friends that “This semester has really…
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What is This Blog?
Why did I decide to start a blog? As this post’s picture is intended to suggest, writing has been a central part of my life and something I have made a priority throughout my time in college. I first realized that I was good at, and genuinely enjoyed, writing during my first year of college…
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Review of The Weeknd’s Dawn FM
Originally Posted at thevillanovan.com When thinking about genres that are conducive to a concept album that can genuinely be considered a masterpiece, it is incredibly unlikely that pop, let alone dance pop, comes to mind. The generation who grew up on Katy Perry, The Black Eyed Peas or The Jonas Brothers became familiarized with pop…
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The Sailor
Act 1: Waiting for Wind The sun rises once again, and he with it This day, another identical to the seeming countless before He gazes into the sea beyond him, but for what? The sea remains as unknowable as in days past, as it seemingly always would. The sea creates no paths for the sailor;…
The Line 