Get Smart Mentoring for Teens
Dealing With Trauma From Rejection
We have all experienced a significant rejection or failure that has led us to doubting our own abilities or potential. How we deal with such adversities is what helps us reverse their negative impacts [...]
Don’t Carry Your Past With You
We all have been in that situation where we carry a suitcase along with us, sometimes for months or years. But when is the time where we must open this suitcase, empty it, and [...]
Keeping Your Passions Alive
“Do what you love, love what you do” is one of my favorite quotes to live by. A lot of the time we find these things we love early on in our lives and through [...]
My FitnessPal can be your BFF
Our generation of millennials is always being criticized for spending too much time on our phones and not enough time on being “productive”. Technology always seems to be an excuse as to why people never go [...]
On Loving Yourself
In today’s media, people are constantly being barraged by various messages and images pertaining to the ‘perfect body,’ ‘summer body,’ ‘confidence weight,’ ‘the beautiful body type’ and countless other descriptions of the ‘ideal’ hairstyle, makeup, [...]
No Shame in Transferring
In August of 2014, I started school as a freshman at Towson University in Maryland. I had the best first year. I had two of my best friends from home with me, amazing friends that were in [...]
How I Found Myself at a Large University
This time last year, I never would have expected to be at the University of Georgia. The school has over 30,000 students, a large Greek life, and a serious football team. I never saw myself [...]
Compartmentalizing Information to Avoid Anxiety
As a part of my summer internship working with Get Smart, I have been assigned a mentor. My mentor’s job is simply to talk to and get to know me, and ask me questions to [...]
Run the Track, Don’t Compete With the Track
To all the non-runners out there, no worries, this won’t be a you must start running after reading this article. But, it will be motivational towards running your brain track. To all the already runners [...]