How to be Smarter: Date boys that appreciate your sense of humor. What you think is funny is such an entrenched part of your personality, that if you and your boyfriend can’t agree on what jokes are funny, what can you agree on? How to be Prettier: If I ever get my very own office to write [...]
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How to be Smarter: Try to live your life as a baseline friendly person, and for a step up, work on being personable. How to be Prettier: Don’t confuse wearing all black with automatically being stylish. You can wear all black and be stylish–or you can be wearing all black and just be matching. How to be (less) Awkward: [...]
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How to be Smarter: For an interview, always bring a nice pen in your bag to take notes with. Writing with a nicer pen than a Bic conveys a subtle nonverbal clue of class. How to be Prettier: Such a unique necklace — the entire site has great jewelry for extremely inexpensive prices. How to [...]
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How to be Smarter: Go on family vacations when they are offered to you. Not only will you bond with your family, they are usually free, and they won’t be offered to you free of charge forever. How to be Prettier: Everyone needs a romper for spring/summer this year. How to be (less) Awkward: Find a quiet [...]
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How to be Smarter: When you intially send someone an email, address them by the most formal way you can. “Prof. Thomas” for your teacher; “Elizabeth” for your RA; “Mrs. Leigh” for your friend’s mother. After they respond, you can address them by the way they sign their email, i.e. “Prof.” for your teacher; “Liz” [...]
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How to be Smarter: Every relationship deserves a dignified end. If you break up with someone over text messaging, you didn’t deserve to have a significant other in the first place. How to be Prettier: I’m not really a baker, but if I was to start, this cooking set would be the first thing I would [...]
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How to be Smarter: A hilarious, delicious-looking cooking blog, AEPie. How to be Prettier: Collarless jackets and blazers will be big this spring; they lend a more polished feel to outfits without a stuffy collar around your neck. How to be (less) Awkward: When your friends leave your apartment, or you all scatter after being out, be sure [...]
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How to be Smarter: Always wear your heaviest clothes and shoes onto the plane (rain boots, winter coat) so you have more room in your suitcase and do not have a heavy baggage fee. How to be Prettier: A great wallet/clutch in blue, and a similar version in green (this is the one I have). How to be [...]
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How to be Smarter: When you bring clothes of different sizes into the dressing room, try on the big sizes first. If they fit, great, be done with it. Do not try on the smaller sizes first, because you might feel sad if you have to take them off and go up a size. How [...]
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How to be Smarter: You’re dating the person you’re dating because there is something special about them that is unlike others. Other people will notice this quality in them too, and may flirt or try to grab their attention away from you. Do not worry. When other girls flirt with your boy, it should make [...]
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How to be Smarter: Make your decisions carefully, and then, once you have chosen, stop comparing and appreciate why you made that choice in the first place. If you decide to go to a college with a beautiful campus over a city school, make sure to take time to look at the pretty setting each [...]
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How to be Smarter: If you are like me, you live with your planner attached to your hip. I have stopped putting just things I have to do for other people, i.e. work projects, homework, etc., and added things that I should be doing for me. Every day I have “drink five glasses of water” as [...]
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How to be Smarter: Take your passion and run with it–even if it is only for a day. Dreams and passions don’t need to last forever to be important or valid or interesting. Today, I love cupcakes. The whole blog is dedicated to them today. Will I love them as much when the weather is [...]
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How to be Smarter: You must give your dreams a combination of time, and a nudge in the right direction, in order for them to happen. How to be Prettier: A great spring eyelet dress–you can get it in black to wear to work with a cardigan over it, or wear it in yellow with [...]
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How to be Smarter: You cannot have two number one priorities. Either decide which one is more important, or schedule the spacing of your life differently so they can be both be number one at separate times. How to be Prettier: Lauren Conrad’s Kohl’s collection is way more awesome then I expected. I already ordered this [...]
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How to be Smarter: The best site I’ve seen for online appointment booking and deals for spas and salons, customizable to your city. How to be Prettier: I find that most people don’t wear heels everyday–it is just not practical. But most people tend to have lots more pairs of going out shoes than everyday shoes, so they [...]
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How to be Smarter: I’m always looking for ways to sneak more water into my diet. I like this tip from this site (which lists 19 more ways to sneak water into your diet): “Add drinking two glasses of water to your daily skincare regimen. Drink, cleanse, moisturize, etc., then drink again.” How to be [...]
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How to be Smarter: You can’t pick your family. It’s what you are born into, and while you can change your interaction with your family as you grow older, for the most part, they are yours and will always be a part of your life. You can pick your friends though–total control there. Hence, it is more telling of [...]
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