UPDATE

After going on an (unintentional) hiatus for 3 months,  I've kind of done some soul searching in school and in my personal life and decided that I needed to make some changes. University work can already seem stressful and overwhelming, but when you're forcing yourself to study subjects which are unsuitable to your personal passions and interests it just seems ten times worse. 

Basically, when deciding my major I chose for all the wrong reasons: to keep up appearances, to make myself feel better, to avoid ridicule from my peers, and because all i was thinking about was finding a career where I could "make money." After 6 months of letting my soul and creativity suffer and wasting countless hours crying over math textbooks, I finally decided to make a change. Now that I have, I feel so much more motivated and inspired and in my element than ever before. That being said, I am going to do my best to maintain this blog and get more involved with the things that I truly love: fashion, art, culture, media, etc. I truly feel like a weight has been lifted.

I no longer feel any guilt about choosing a major that is considered "easy" or "a joke" by the judgemental and genuinely offensive mentality of my business and engineering based university.  Newsflash to all the commerce and engineering students who walk around with a superior attitude: have fun being on top of the food chain in university, because in the real world a specific degree does NOT in ANY WAY guarantee a better job or better quality of life than any other degree. Besides, I won't be thinking about your condescending comments when I'm sitting front row at Marc Jacobs during NYFW and you're slaving away in a miserable office with awful fluorescent lighting. 

Not to take anything away from the business and technical students that genuinely love what they study and go about their work without having to snub and look down on every other faculty. But for every one sincere person, there are 5 pretentious ones. This "tiered" student body is one of the few things that I dislike about my university (which I otherwise love), and it upsets me that in today's society people still have such backwards mentalities about education. However, I've decided that I simply don't care anymore. I'm happy and I'm doing me and I know the future will hold bright things for me if I follow my heart and cultivate my talents. 

Never let anyone tell you who you are, you tell them! Don't feel pressured to be the same as the people surrounding you, and don't listen to the "popular opinion" because it's not always right for everyone. Do something that makes your body feel electric and makes your hands shake with passion; discover what it means to be alive. 

Happy February 15th, 

XO