4th of July Celebration Monday, July 4. bit.ly/CentennialParkFireworks If you find yourself in Atlanta over the holiday weekend, and you’re in the mood to celebrate, look no further than this traditional event at the iconic Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta. You can enjoy the Southeast’s largest fireworks show while listening to live entertainment and…

Emory was a little bit of a dream of mine ever since I visited the campus in the spring of 2012 as a high school sophomore. Whether I knew it or not at the time of my visitation, looking back my fate here seems almost inevitable… Now, before you click off this page in fear…

Summerfest in Virginia-Highland Saturday, June 4–Sunday, June 5    vahi.org/summerfest This is hands down my favorite festival of the summer! There is something for everyone throughout this weekend extravaganza—artist markets, live music, and food and drink aplenty. The main music stage is in John Howell Park. But I’ll let you in on a resident secret—the…

I went to an all-girls high school founded in 1874, the oldest school in Dallas, TX. When I talked to different generations of alumnae from my school, we would talk about our shared experience with our favorite traditions—the Snowball Dance, Intramurals interclass competition, and the Junior Ring Ceremony. I absolutely loved that I was connected…

If you’re like me, studying abroad seems synonymous with words and phrases like “life changing” and “adventurous.”  It is discussed as a magical time in a college student’s career in which the live a life worthy of a Jack Kerouac novel with a successful movie adaptation. While my semester in Ireland is one I am…