The happiness effect

So I have been absent due to finals and packing but I guess that’s never an excuse. Won’t happen again. Today I traveled back home to Bogota to spend the holidays with my parents. It should be fun. I bought some magazines, reading I have also nelgected due to recent life management crisis, like Time. [...]

No job after graduation? Don’t freak just yet

My roommate is graduating in less than a month. The cloud of anxiety that hangs over her head made me start thinking about how nerve wracking this can be, especially if you don’t have a job waiting for you at the other side of the tassel.
The worst thing you can do is panic. You don’t [...]

Harsh times, cheap measures

Being a college student make the state of “broke” a permanent one. Many of us are not even that affected by the current economic crisis because we don’t have any money anyways. Still, I have been noticing a trend in the way people are behaving, and I can’t figure out whether its precautionary or subconscious [...]

Tips to enhance your day

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated,”– Confucius
I was going to write about rice cookers. Maybe I will next time. But today simply reminded me of how often we forget to enjoy life daily… take the random moments. My day was regular but had a couple of ingredients to remind me [...]

Depression not bettered by exercise?

I stumbled into a reference to a recent study, which showed that as opposed to what we are used to hearing, depression is not bettered by exercise.
Whatever happened to endorphin rushes? Am I crazy really to think that when I am exercising my mood improves?
There may not be a direct link. According to this study, [...]

A serene hello to you

Hello, I am Andrea, a journalism student in Florida.
I believe happiness to be a way of life instead of a longed-for destination. In college, we tend to lose our balance. Between eating all the wrong things, forgetting how to exercise and overdosing on coffee, it is easy to forget what you are here for in [...]