Let It Go

Story Life isn’t like a movie—a piece of wisdom I wish I would have understood long before adulthood. Scenes of magnificent proms, thrilling college hangouts, and fantastical jobs (nobody could ever work in those big cities and have such amazing apartments), had convinced me that every moment of my life would be full of excitement and transformation. I pictured myself having the crazy college experience, moving to New York, and starting some illustrious job in writing. Obviously, these things didn’t work out the way my 13-year-old rom-com-loving self thought they would. But I loved every second of what did happen.  Instead of attending wild parties, my college nights were spent working with some of my best friends at my university’s newspaper—an experience that challenged me in every way.