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. [...]

Thank yourself for not overeating

Holiday season, in my head, equals food. Think about it… it is not long after swallowing hundreds of candy bars in October when you are already feasting during Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Eve. It is the time of year when most of us gain weight and feel excused to do so.
There is also the [...]

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 [...]

People catching on to the cheap food trend

This couple whose blog I found are trying a fantastic experiment. To support the point I made in my previous post, you don’t have to be rich to eat well. Check out the One Dollar Diet Project, which is an inspiration in itself. 
Start by reading their first entry, so you can understand the sacrifices in [...]

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 [...]

How much talking is too much talking?

For the first time in my life I am living with friends. Until now, it’s been good. My roommates and I share the same type of life, habits and disciplines, so we haven’t had any problems. There is one factor though, that has started me thinking. We talk, and we do it constantly. We do [...]

Eating for pleasure

Eating healthy… well, oh how good it is! I had been thinking about this and felt very happy to find this article in the New York Times on a trend I finally approve of; eating healthy because it’s good, not to be thin. In this article, Rachel Ray, who doesn’t give calorie indexes in her [...]

The benefits of early rising

It’s hard for my friends to understand my reasons for waking up early if I don’t have class until noon. To them it is an abstract thought, and why shouldn’t it, after all we are in college. Staying up and sleeping in become part of the routine.
You see, I didn’t realize I was a morning [...]