totally baked

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Hello, my name is Piper and I am a binge watcher.

Hi Piper. 

In 2017, it's hard to find anyone who wouldn't [way too] proudly label themselves one. With fascinating inventions like Netflix and Hulu and Amazon at our fingertips, why would we waste our time doing something legitimately productive when we can plant ourselves on the couch and watch twelve hours straight of The Great British Baking Show? Not that I'm speaking from experience. Calm down. 

But now that I've set up that pretty segue, let's talk a little more about that show.

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freshmeat wisdom

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On May 5th, ya girl completed her freshman year of college. In retrospect, it's not a very big deal, but in my head, it's a HUGE deal. I've been homeschooled since the seventh grade so I never went to "real" high school although I did attend a high school prom, but that's a different story for a different time. This means I have never had to learn how to study for things, I hadn't had to do actual homework in upwards of seven years, and it had been a long time since I was forced to put myself out in the world and intentionally pursue new friendships. Much like this blog, I had no clue what I was doing or how to do it. 

All this to say I didn't know what to expect when I went to college. I knew I was going to inevitably walk away with knowledge and experiences that I didn't have before, but I had no way of knowing what those things were going to be. I should probably note that I'm no expert on college after one year, in case that's what it sounds like.* In some ways, I'm just as lost as I was before. However, while I went through a lot of personal change and experienced things very specific to me, I was able to generalize a few things that I felt could be helpful to all people in college/about to go to college.

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I have no clue what I am doing

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Here's one thing about me: I like self-explanatory titles. Another thing: I have a lot of trouble with confrontation (so it actually makes quite a lot of sense that I've resorted to a blog). 

Hi.

I hate doing that thing where you introduce yourself in writing, because it is always terribly awkward and I always think I've done a good job and then a couple weeks, days, or minutes later I'll reread what I wrote and cringe about it until the end of time. Run-on sentences. I like those too. Also sentence fragments. So anyway. We're going to skip the introduction and the people reading this (or lack thereof) are just going to have to figure it out on their own. 

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