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Seems appropriate.. We cannot go on living in a world with grammatical errors! Even when doused with amor in love letters hahah

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Your Six Drunk Personalities

#college humor #6 drunk personalities

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Einstein... and the ramblings of a Generation Y baby

I have been sitting on this post for several months now. I was listening to a Stuff You Should Know podcast sometime early in the summer about what quantifies defining someone as a 'genius'. Naturally Albert Einstein was discussed. Listening to the podcast, and hearing about Einstein's successes really struck me.

By 26, Einstein:

- Proved atoms exist - Proved light behaves as a particle and a wave - Developed the "Theory of Relativity" - And developed the famous E= mc² equation

Well let me tell you. I will be turning 25 in mid April, and the likelihood of me coming close to accomplishing even one thing at the level of Einstein's successes by the age of 26 is in the negative range of possibility. Not to say I really measure myself against a known genius, but when put into perspective like that, it truly is amazing. And terrifying.

What is it about today's society that permits young adults to take their time 'finding themselves' and delaying the process of developing their own successes? I mean, don't get me wrong, it's not that I want to be rushed into adulthood at the moment, but isn't there something about how when boundaries and guidelines are slack (if made at all), we go a little crazy?

I wouldn't go as far as to say I'm in the midst of a quarter life crisis by any means, but when reflecting on how society grew up during our grandparents' and even our parents' generations I find myself stunned. Between depression, wars, segregation, and movements all around, people were pushed into roles where responsibility and development took precedence. I love being a Gen Y baby, but there are times I struggle with the notion that we have been given so much freedom to do as we please that our generation has developed a complete lack of direction and motivation.

I can't speak for everyone but I know when I was tossed from my senior year of High School into University I had NO idea what I wanted to do, or where I wanted to be. My decisions of where I went to school had very little to do with the path I wanted to take in life. Even though I ended up pleased with attending the University of Guelph it had more to do with the friends I made and experiences I had, over the education and direction I received. I even switched my major after my second year because my original choice was such a random one a friend had recommended (I graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing). Fresh out of university I felt even more lost. Welcome to the real world kids! Didn't take a co-op program? Spent your summers working jobs as far from your field as possible? Congrats, you're screwed! I spent my summers lifeguarding between university semesters. I had a blast making friends, getting an endlessly fab tan, and collecting oh so many stories about people who can't swim. I don't regret these summers, but it would have been nice to be clued in that I would have to work twice as hard once graduated because my work experience, while honourable, had nothing to do with marketing. 

I am now working up to having a year and a half work experience relevant to my field. Nine months of it working for a start-up getting paid slightly above minimum wage (and don't even think about benefits) and coming up to seven as an unpaid Marketing Intern (I can't complain about this one, while unpaid I LOVE my job). More often than not it's more about who you know and not what you know. This fact is unfortunately driven into my brain all too frequently. I have done my best to network and make connections in the right places but at the end of the day I am still looking for that opening in the market where someone will finally feel I have enough experience and the passion to get the job done, and at a nice ticket price of course.

Until then I will continue to work as hard as I can, adding experience under my belt, and ponder what life would be life if I were an accomplished genius like Albert Einstein...

#Albert Einstein #Generation Y

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And for those who say they're too young...

Let me just say... Hell you can drive at 16 Go to war at 18 You can drink at 21 And retire at 65 So how old do you have to be before your love is real?

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Happy Valentine's Day

#Happy Valentines Day

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Never has Jenna Marbles hit a nail so well on the head than with this video! Amazing

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And the world will live as one...

i hope someday you’ll join us. 

#john lennon #imagine

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Bahaha... Don't We All?

Sadly the PostSecret App closed down several weeks ago, but you can still check out awesome secrets every Sunday at http://www.postsecret.com/

#PostSecret

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Delicious song from a delicious movie... The first track in Drive.

#Drive #Kavinsky #Nightcall #Ryan Gosling

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“I’d like to be making babies, but I’m not, so I’m making movies. When someone comes along, I don’t think I’ll be able to do both… I’ll make movies until I make babies.”

-Ryan Gosling 

I'LL MAKE BABIES WITH YOU RYAN!!!

#Ryan Gosling

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"Where Ya Noms At?"

Check out more hilarious videos by Hannah Hart on her YouTube, MyHarto where you'll find many "My Drunk Kitchen" videos. Awesome.

#MyHarto #My Drunk Kitchen

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The One and Only Kelly Cutrone, Ladies and Gentlemen... 

#kelly cutrone

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In anticipation on Gossip Girls 100th Episode January 30th... The Quotable Gossip Girl

#gossip girl #100th

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...and finally the original video that started it all...

Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye ft. Kimbra

#Gotye #Kimbra

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The obsession continues... The video of their performance on Ellen.

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Walk Off the Earth may have become an overnight success to the world after the discovery of their 5 people 1 guitar cover of Gotye's "Somebody That I Used to Know" (uploaded January 5, 2012... racking up 1.5 million viewers in just 24 hours), but they truly became an overnight obsession for me when last night I stumbled upon their video and was somehow one of the LAST people to find out about it. I have be raiding their YouTube for the past 24 hours and all I am is incredibly stunned and impressed one video after another. Please please everyone check them out and support the rest of their stuff! They are a real talent, and so close to home being from the general Toronto area, and recording in Burlington at B-Town Sound Studio. 

After going viral so quickly, celebrities all over were tweeting about the video and WOTE performed on Ellen this past Monday January 23, 2012. In typical Ellen gift giving manner, she gave them each Fender guitars and amps so they no longer had only one guitar to play on. Now hitting 37, 555, 467 views (and counting...) of their Gotye video in 20 days, Walk Off the Earth have been delivered a fantastic opportunity, and I can't wait to see them blow up even further!

Here are some ways to find them and fall in love yourself.

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/walkofftheearth

YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/walkofftheearth?feature=watch

Band Camp: http://walkofftheearth.bandcamp.com/ (where you can listen to and dl their tunes for free/donation)

Main Site: http://walkofftheearth.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/walkofftheearth

#Walk Off the Earth #Somebody That I Used to Know #Gotye