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This President’s day weekend went differently as planned, to say the least. Everything was seemingly normal until Saturday morning, when norovirus hit three of my roommates, one after the other. I spent the whole day traveling from apartment to apartment to escape my friends who were dropping like flies to the disease. Currently, I am spending the night in a hotel while my apartment gets disinfected. Because I’ve had more time alone than usual, I resorted to Netflix to cure my boredom. After some browsing, I decided to watch “Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes”. Once I started, I couldn't stop. Embarrassingly enough I had never heard about Ted Bundy, the serial killer, and I was extremely disturbed by how he fooled so many people and was able to escape prison on two separate occasions.  The first thing that intrigued me about the documentary was how much our technology has advanced since the 1970s. Although the police sometimes had blood samples, and witnesses ...

Katherine O’Connor How to Dance Like No One’s Watching  And Know You Don’t Look Like an Idiot Everyone has that one friend that is notoriously bad at dancing. The one everyone loves to laugh at from afar when they are attempting to shimmy on the dancefloor. Well, unfortunately, I’m that friend, and chances are you are too if you’re reading this. If you're  that  friend, then you know the immediate discomfort that arises when someone suggests that everyone go dancing at a bar or club. It’s easy to say “relax”, or the cliché, “dance like no one’s watching”. But the reality is, you know some people  are watching, and it's normal to want to look good while doing it. So, from one non-dancer to another, these are the tips I’ve learned along the way that will successfully transform you from a terrible dancer into an average one (with confidence). #1 Throw out Your Preconceptions about Dance The first key to mastering dance, is knowing that you can’...

I was pleasantly surprised by Gloria Steinem’s novel, My Life on the Road . To be honest, I wasn't completely sure how moved I would be by the life of a traveling feminist (in the most general terms). I couldn't see myself being able to relate to her life in anyway, as I have had comfort in having a place to call home and I am not that passionate about politics. However, from the moment I read the first page, I knew I had greatly underestimated Steinem, both as an activist and as an inspirational writer. When I read the title of the first chapter, “My Father’s Footprints”, I knew I was going to have more in common with Steinem than previously thought. The chapter was filled with memories of her unusual childhood on the road, which had worked to shape her into the person she is today. Although she originally was embarrassed of her ‘weird’ upbringing, and longed for a less impulsive father that could settle down, she later realized how important it was in forming her charact...

Retail Salesperson  Because I am young student, I haven’t had a lot of work experience, especially in the business field, which I plan to take part in after I graduate. However, when I was a junior in high school I briefly served as a retail salesperson at a boutique called LF. Although the title is pretty self-explanatory, I am going to briefly explain what my life was like for a few months as a salesperson.  A retail salesperson is someone who serves customers by helping them select products that they like and feel confident in. We tackle several different job responsibilities that are centered around selling as much product as we can and making sure our clients know about our new clothing arrivals and markdowns.  There are three jobs that help to sum up the responsibilities of a retail salesperson:  Stylist  Cashier  Marketer I’ll describe these positions using examples of what I did on a daily basis.  Stylist The work of a...

To be honest, when I first saw that I had to read an entire book I wasn't that excited. Immediately, I researched the three options to find out which book was the shortest and least painful to read. The first option was How I Killed Pluto by Mike Brown. After reading the book summary, I found out it was about the discovery of the tenth planet, Eris, which lead to Pluto being being demoted to a from a real planet to a “dwarf” planet. The thought of reading a scientific book brought back the nightmares of my 15 week-long class on Earthquakes I took last semester. I couldn’t survive reading about any more historic rocks. Then I looked up the second option, Growing a Farmer: How I Learned to Live Off the Land by Kurt Timmermeister. I learned it was about how Timmermeister turned four acres of land into a profitable farm. This book was more interesting to me from a business standpoint, but I wasn’t looking forward to reading about where the food I eat comes from. Fina...

Hi, I'm Katie O'Connor. Although I was born in Boston, I moved to North Palm Beach, Florida when I was just three years old, and it is what I call "home". My days in Florida are filled with lying in the sun on the beach, which I live less than a mile from. I am going to be the chief marketing officer of a large company. I plan to achieve this goal by starting to connect myself to the marketing world now through info sessions and company visits. I am like my mom in the sense that we are both caring, driven, and love to shop. Differently, I am like my dad in the sense that he was extremely generous and had a great sense of humor, while I, too, love to give back to the community and am considered the "clown" of my friend group. However, I am unlike my parents because my mom is more organized than I am and my dad was very assertive and courageous, which I struggle with sometimes. If I were being honest, I would admit that my expectations for myself have been pre...