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Need a Job Before a Man

April 4, 2011

My mother once told me, “Don’t forget to get married.” I guess she figured if I was so focused on my career, I’d be oblivious to those gentlemen who were going to come a’courting. And then my friends shared with me this video about a five-year old girl who has already figured out her priorities: [...]

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Anonymity isn’t an Invitation to be Rude

March 30, 2011

This post is available over at Forbes blogs: Social media has brought a sense of “realness” to the fakeness of online identities. People used to hide behind anonymity, and then we declared (with Mark Zuckerberg leading the way) that you couldn’t be taken seriously if you were hiding behind avatars and names like TechKitty5837. We embraced [...]

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Mark: Why Ruin it for the Rest of Us?

September 27, 2010

The Social Network is opening soon. I’m going to see this movie, but it kind of makes me mad that I’ll be going to see it. Facebook and all it’s drama seems to represent the end of the Gen Y spectrum that makes me shudder. Mark, you drive me crazy. There are a lot of [...]

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Geeking Out for a Second

September 20, 2010

Several fun things happened this week, even though I think I was even more busy than I have been since arriving at Tech. I wanted to share some of these because we always need a reminder of the little things in life that make us happy. I hope you take a moment to think back [...]

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When Social Media Isn’t Like Breathing

September 14, 2010

In the past few months, life has changed. I moved from Minneapolis to St. Louis, then to Blacksburg. I left my job and started an MBA program. I have a completely new kind of schedule. All of that brings me to this conclusion: I find that I’m just not online as often anymore. Contributing to [...]

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Being the Constant New Girl

August 5, 2010

I would like to think I’m a pro at being the New Girl. I’m getting ready for move number thirteen, attended six different schools before high school and regularly walk into a room ready to make friends. Once you leave the academic comfort zone, however, you find all kinds of situations that force you to [...]

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The New Romance

April 26, 2010

After reading a number of posts about how social media is changing the dating scene, I wondered if there were other changes that had little or nothing to do with social media. I’m a single, female, 20-something, so *hopefully* I’m not way off base with my assumptions about how women may view romance. Movies have [...]

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What if St. Patrick Could have Tweeted When He was Kidnapped?

March 16, 2010

Since some people I know got started celebrating St. Patrick’s Day this weekend, I figured I’d go ahead and share the Irish love. Have you ever looked up the history of St. Patrick? Actually learned how he got the whole saint-thing going? Well, I honestly admit that I never did. Sure, I might have learned [...]

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Better Readers Instead of Writers?

December 4, 2009

One of the criticisms of my generation is that technology is making us a group of horrible writers. We can’t spell because of spell check (guilty), we wouldn’t know a full word if we saw it (thx), and we use punctuation to express emotion : ) Sure, we’re teaching younger generations that texting is the [...]

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