Never Have I Ever…

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Never have I ever been so stressed in my life. Until this semester, I have prided myself on my abilities to manage my time effectively. I was always the cool, calm and collected person because I knew at the end of the day, I would get what ever needed to be done accomplished. But that…

10 Things I Hate [Workplace Edition]

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Putting things (files/papers/etc) on my desk instead of in my mailbox! I hate when people put things on my keyboard or on my chair as if to showcase some sort of importance. What’s the point of me having a mailbox if no one uses it? Using “ASAP” in an email to me. Unless you’re my…

How I Got My Boaters Education Certificate

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If you couldn’t tell already by my Facebook posts, tweets on Twitter and Instagram photos, I recently went to Miami to celebrate my friends birthday. Before going to Miami, we already had a set list of things we wanted to do which included jet skiing. Thus on our second day in Miami after catching a…

Little Lisa

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There was this girl named, Lisa. Lisa was ten years old. Short black hair with the smoothest caramel complexion. People always said she got her looks from her grandma. Everybody just knew there was no way she got it from her mom or her daddy since they were both addicted to crack cocaine. But what…

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Good afternoon, My name is Oyinade Koyi and I am a twenty-three year old African American female in search for what makes life grand. Today I woke up with purpose. I got up in time to get dressed and do everything I needed to do except apply my teeth whitening treatment. (We’ll talk about that…

Why I Love Beyoncé

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If you dislike Beyoncé for any reason whether it be her music, her world domination or because of her crazy fans, this piece is for you. If you love Beyoncé just as much as I do, then please read on too. However, I must preface by saying my intent for writing this is not to…

Because it needs to be said.

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The following image is from a post I saw on Facebook. This person quickly deleted it but not before I could get a screenshot. I quickly reposted it to Instagram. However, there was more I really needed to say and what better platform than my blog to say it! This is in direct response to…