four ex-students avoiding the real world
Photos from my first day of my internship at Redbook and a year later a picture of from my first day of my job at Cosmo. A photo from my first day renting an apartment during my internship summer and the first day of living in a real apartment in Brooklyn! It’s been a year since I technically moved to New York (I flew to NY on May 21, 2011) and I had no idea I’d be here again. My birthday is tomorrow (and Jen’s is today! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JHO! or however you say it in Irish) too. My French friends are in town for the week. They bought me surprise box seats to Phantom of the Opera last night, which was a lot of fun and really sweet of them. And the fabulous MELISSA is here this weekend too! I feel so lucky and so happy. Good things to come. Maybe I’ll be here again in a year, ringing in my 24th… Wow, that is really weird to say. -Malia

Photos from my first day of my internship at Redbook and a year later a picture of from my first day of my job at Cosmo. A photo from my first day renting an apartment during my internship summer and the first day of living in a real apartment in Brooklyn!

It’s been a year since I technically moved to New York (I flew to NY on May 21, 2011) and I had no idea I’d be here again. My birthday is tomorrow (and Jen’s is today! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JHO! or however you say it in Irish) too. My French friends are in town for the week. They bought me surprise box seats to Phantom of the Opera last night, which was a lot of fun and really sweet of them. And the fabulous MELISSA is here this weekend too! I feel so lucky and so happy.

Good things to come. Maybe I’ll be here again in a year, ringing in my 24th… Wow, that is really weird to say.

-Malia

And here’s my recap of May 2011-2012! Jen’s a video kinda gal (she made tons of them for her degree in broadcast journalism after all.) So, I thought I could best represent my year in a photo map, since…I like maps? (click high res to zoom in) Hope you can read it! If not it’ll remain a secret forever. and the last photo: May 2012  -Tas

And here’s my recap of May 2011-2012!

Jen’s a video kinda gal (she made tons of them for her degree in broadcast journalism after all.) So, I thought I could best represent my year in a photo map, since…I like maps?

(click high res to zoom in)
Hope you can read it! If not it’ll remain a secret forever.

and the last photo: May 2012 

-Tas

[Flash 10 is required to watch video]

Hey PGL’ers! 

I wanted to recap my first year of PGL in an iMovie, photo montage. If you know anything about me, you know that photos are probably one of my favorite things. I have always hung pictures of past experiences/friends/family on my walls. So for you, I put in all the best parts. I hope you enjoy! The movie looks pretty glamorous, and I have been truly blessed, but this past year wasn’t all fun & games. I’ve been through and learned a lot. I left out the breakups, the GRE’s and the family funerals. First off, why would you want to see those photos? Secondly, I want to remember the wonderful parts of my first PGL experience! 

What is next for me? Grad school somewhere and a part-time job (yippeee!). I’ll make sure to keep you all in the loop!

Much love,

Jen

PGL: Knowing you don’t need, and can’t afford, to buy frivolous things. like these lamps. in every color. -Tas

PGL: Knowing you don’t need, and can’t afford, to buy frivolous things.

like these lamps. in every color.

-Tas

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it—except as bitter experience

—Neil Gaiman
Address to the University of Arts (Philadelphia) Class of 2012.

I tended to do anything as long as it felt like an adventure, and stop when it felt like work. Which meant that life did not feel like work.

—Neil Gaiman
Address to the University of Arts (Philadelphia) Class of 2012.

Neil Gaiman’s Address to the University of Arts Philadelphia Class of 2012.

  1. People who know what they are doing know what is possible and impossible. If you don’t know it’s impossible, it’s easier to do.
  2. If you have an idea of what you want to make…just go and do that.
  3. When you start out you have to deal with the prospect of failure. You have to be thick-skinned.
  4. Make Mistakes
  5. Make YOUR Art. 
  6. People get hired because, somehow, they get hired. In my case, I lied.
  7. Enjoy your Art instead of worrying about it.
YOU GUYS MY MOM KNOWS ACRONYMS. As a postgrad-moved-back-home, or a “boomerang kid” as the media has coined us, there is plenty of parental entertainment (and teen-angst flashbacks) to go around. I tried to explain to her later how hilarious this was, and that I was being a total sassy jerk with my reply. I think she gets it now. -CKB

YOU GUYS MY MOM KNOWS ACRONYMS.

As a postgrad-moved-back-home, or a “boomerang kid” as the media has coined us, there is plenty of parental entertainment (and teen-angst flashbacks) to go around.

I tried to explain to her later how hilarious this was, and that I was being a total sassy jerk with my reply. I think she gets it now.

-CKB