How to be Smarter: Breaking someone’s heart is not a war prize. Hurting someone you care about so badly, knowing in your heart they will be upset for a long while, is one of the saddest ways a relationship can end. It is not something to laugh about, or take lightly. How to be Prettier: [...]
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How to be Smarter: You can be funny without being smart. But I don’t think you can be truly smart without being funny. How to be Prettier: Fur anything–faux or otherwise–should not be bought online. It needs to be tried on in a store. How to be (less) Awkward: You must dress up for Halloween. [...]
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How to be Smarter: Everyone is a little bit of trouble. Some people are trouble in obvious ways, like being too good looking. And some people are trouble in less obvious ways–they hold your heart in their hand and you haven’t realized it yet; they have no obvious flaws, instantly making them that much harder [...]
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How to be Smarter: Just show up to class. It is not that hard, and, most of the time, you don’t actually have anything more important to to do. Show up, ask a few questions, try to look interested. Once a week stay after class and chit chat with the teacher. This alone–and none of [...]
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How to be Smarter: On Mondays, make an extra cup of coffee and dump it into your ice cube tray. Then, for the rest of the week, use the coffee ice cubes in your iced coffee so the drink gets less diluted once the ice cubes melt–or throw them in if you accidently make your [...]
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How to be Smarter: Fairy tales aren’t ambiguous. Prince Charming never made a list of things he liked and didn’t like about Cinderella. Sleeping Beauty never cheated on her man. If it really is a fairy tale, and it really is happily ever after, you will know. Until then, have fun and relax. When Mister [...]
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How to be Smarter: You must think of your life as a music album. A few song flops doesn’t necessarily prevent your album from going platinum. How to be Prettier: Mint green is a huge shade this fall for a nail color. Love it! Such a nice change from the normal fall nail colors lineup. [...]
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How to be Smarter: I like to end every work email with a one sentence action item: “Please respond back with appropriate times for the face to face meeting,” “After you have read this, please confirm its receipt,” “Think about this proposal and report back to me with your thoughts.” How to be Prettier: Don’t [...]
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How to be Smarter: The “In Case of Emergency” Campaign is working to make more people safer. The idea is to put an entry into your cell phone entitled “ICE” (“In Case of Emergency”) that lists the numbers of someone the paramedics can call if you are an accident. In my entry, I put the [...]
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How to be Smarter: This site is one of the best budgeting sites I’ve seen. It’s also free, and extremely easy to use. And I’m a sucker for a nice pie graph telling me how much I can afford to spend on dry cleaning a month. How to be Prettier: Textured tights are everywhere this [...]
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How to be Smarter: I am a big fan of fitting in learning where I can get it. I recently moved into an apartment that has a map of the world for a shower curtain. Not only do I let the conditioner sit in my hair longer because I’m quizzing myself on the names of [...]
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How to be Smarter: When you are sick, you don’t take your temperature every five minutes because the tiny movements of degrees don’t matter as much as the overall picture. Similarly, sometimes, you will be 92.3% happy, and sometimes, you will be 92.9% happy. Do these tiny differences of degree mean anything? No, its the [...]
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How to be Smarter: I have some lovely people I look up to in real life, that I can chat with and email whenever I want. But I also have some lovely people I look up that I will never meet, for they are either far too famous or have been dead far too long. [...]
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