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608, 2014

What is Get Smart?

Get Smart is powerful. Get Smart is fierce. Get Smart is extraordinary. Get Smart has challenged me to awaken the thoughts that are often drowned out by the everyday hustle and bustle of being a 20-something graduate [...]

608, 2014

From “Pipsqueak to Platoon Leader”: Get Smart on LEADERSHIP!

I wanted to start off with a quote about leadership. So, I did what every other individual would typically do and typed, “leadership” into Google. There were a couple million hits – awesome.! I click, [...]

3107, 2014

Get Smart: The Hardships of Losing a Friend

As much as I would love to compare everything to the analogy of breaking up with a boyfriend, losing a friend is much worse. When you’re in a relationship with a significant other, there is [...]

3107, 2014

Get Smart about Controlling Your Own Tomorrow

I am all about being flexible with the relationship between your heart and mind. Painting a beautiful passionate mess all over the picture perfect life you’ve created in your head. But allowing yourself to be [...]

3007, 2014

Getting Smart about What I’ve Learned So Far (Part I)

As we grow older, we have a way of becoming busier. This is just the natural way of life. We have more ideas, more goals and more people with which to spend time. Along with [...]

2407, 2014

Get Smart: Be Allies, Not Enemies

As women, we have enough to worry about on a daily basis without also worrying about being stabbed in the back by other women. Instead of trying to compete with each other and bringing each [...]

2407, 2014

Lost in the “Real World”? Get Smart and Find Your Calling

In talking to many of my friends, who have recently graduated from college as I have, it seems like life has become vastly different than it was a year or two ago. Some of us [...]

2407, 2014

Work Hard, Play Hard, Get Smart

A Photo Journal of Summer Lessons In the true spirit of a Get Smart girl, I’ve been having an absolutely incredible summer. In addition to interning for Get Smart, I’ve been doing undergraduate research at [...]

2107, 2014

A Get Smart College Journey: Preparing Mentally & Spiritually for CHANGE!

As some of you may know come this fall I will start my journey as a New York City college student! Currently I am going through the process of mentally preparing for this big change [...]

1707, 2014

Lessons Your Best Friends Teach You – Get Smart!

After transferring from Coastal Carolina University to Ramapo College of New Jersey, where I presently attend, I now know a thing or two about best friends in college. Most of us have best friends from [...]