March 9th 2019 the day I got married. And like most married men I believed that this was the official end to the dating season of my life. And all those “skillz” I had acquired over the years of failure were vanity. And having the blessing of finding my wife as my lab partner in… Continue reading Job Hunting is Basically the Professional Form of Dating
During my senior year of high school, I never saw going to a four-year college as a real option. It wasn’t that I didn’t have the academic preparation, I took every AP class offered like a good little suburban white boy should (it was that or that fact that taking 3 AP classes my senior… Continue reading How I Graduated College Without Student Loans
So today was my last first day of college. Which is strange. And quite frankly I have no idea what to say, but I just feel as if I need to post a blog about this. Like this is a big deal, right? Cause I don’t feel like it is. I mean I do but… Continue reading I’m Graduating and Have No Idea What’s Next
So, Class of 2021, mommy and daddy helped you moved into your dorm room, assisted you in decorating it after spending 18 hours on Pinterest and 700 dollars at Target, or by simply hanging a flag. They took you to get some food as you have already begun to learn to squeeze free food out… Continue reading 5 Things College Freshman Must Know
This is the time of year when every white girl with a blog posts some sappy story that ultimately states that GPA doesn’t matter to God and how you can’t mess up his plan so relax. (And I may or may not have done this before) Which is true, God is watching out for you.… Continue reading Something Greater Than “God’s Plan”
So you’re done. You have hung up your blue corduroy jacket for the last time. That weird jacket that your ag teacher made you wear as you quizzically asked, “What do you mean I have to wear a tie? I thought this was FFA not FBLA, we are supposed to be barn living country folk.”… Continue reading Open Letter to a Has Been
Last year’s graduation did not hit me as hard. I think it was because I was an awkward, weird freshman that went to community college and spent all his time studying. I recognized that the seniors were graduating and always had it in the back of my head that they were about to leave. Which… Continue reading An Open Letter to the Graduating Student
I probably don’t say this enough, actually I know I don’t say this enough but thank you Mom. Thank you for putting up with me for the past 19 years, I know I can be a handful. Heck even before I was born and still lived in your stomach I was not so pleasurable at… Continue reading An Open Letter to My Mom
During finals it is easy to be caught up in the hustle, rustle, and bustle of GPA and grades. Stressing over the impending test as if your entire life depended on it, as if you educational career cumulated to this pinnacle moment. That your life and career aspirations are at the whims of remembering what… Continue reading Open Letter to the Stressed Out College Student
Thoughts with Thomas 