Whether you’re entering your senior year of college or pushing through your last semester, chances are you’re panicked either way. Even though it was years ago I can still remember the first day of my senior year, sharing a room with a girl I had met just a few weeks before, preparing an application for […]
Raise your hand if you enjoy giving gifts more than you enjoy receiving them! *raises hand* Maybe it’s just me but what I love most about Christmas and Valentine’s Day is taking the time to find an item that the most important people in my life will cherish, which is why it’s so annoying when […]
Two weeks. Two weeks is the amount of time it took for me to send out my first batch of applications and receive my first job offer. I did it, and so can you, you just need to keep believing that. If you’ve graduated college recently, you’re all to aware of the common things said […]
I was going to start this blog post off with some witty joke and then maybe transition into my story, but you know what? Nah. My audience according to my site stats is 93% female. Meaning 93% of you know what it’s like to explain something ten different ways and still be looked at with […]
Although I don’t write much on the topic of friendships, making and maintaining friendships is a topic that is almost always on my mind, agenda, and to do list. Why, you may ask? Well, I left everything and everyone I knew to live, work and study in Washington DC. Meaning that one decision meant I […]
I’ve fallen into a bit of a routine lately. Up by 8:30, work by 10, home by 7, repeat. Even my weekends are becoming similar, usually including visiting my favorite dive bar, tending to my succulents and enjoying the bliss that comes with living alone in a city full of people. I absolutely love the […]
The idea about finding someone to date through an app is something I was always against. Restaurant recommendations? Sure. Directions to where I’m going? Please! But a guy to spend my time with and share my popcorn bowl with? No freaking way. Not happening. Never in a million years. Then I realized something. I don’t […]
I’m not a mom. I have no desire to be a mom anytime soon and I don’t claim to know what it’s like to have a responsibilities at that level, including keeping another human being alive. But I do know what it’s like to be selfless for another living being, even when it requires I […]
Established in 2014 for soon to be upperclassmen collegiates, struggling post grads and confused twenty somethings, When Life Gives You Rubi is fast growing community of women from all over the world in their most defining years. Both the writer and readers share witty, embarrassing and encouraging snippets of their everyday life to let others […]
So much has been going on the past ten days I don’t know where to begin, but through it all I’ve managed to keep up with the challenge and capture some very big moments of this year. Tomorrow night I will be catching my flight to Washington DC, where I have a room in a […]
Not sure if you’ve noticed this recent trend, but I predict 2017 is the year everyone becomes a minimalist, or at least tries to. Maybe it’s because of the new Netflix documentary, maybe we’re all jealous of those girls on Instagram with picture perfect homes. It’s 50/50 for me to be honest. I know myself […]
Six years ago I was loading moving boxes into our family car, completely unaware that I had packed way too much stuff for a room I was going to share with two other girls. Yes ya’ll, I was placed in a triple dorm room. Three girls in one room, and two of them shared the […]
Dear iPhone 4s, Is it weird that I wrote the idea for this post on my new iPhone? The skinnier, shinier, better version of you. Or is the weird part that I feel guilty about it? It’s not that I wanted to go out and find something newer and better, but the time had come. […]
Renting my own apartment last fall was a big step for me. Although I moved out of my home when I was 18, I spent five years living in dorm rooms, shared apartments and group houses. Going from having multiple roommates to none is a pretty big transition, and while it’s not always the most […]