Gabby Shen

So for my classmates, remember that quiz we took in the beginning of the semester? The one about your passions? Anyways well I remember I got communications. Which I thought was interesting because that's what I'm majoring in and I really do get that good feeling inside when I'm just doing life with people, but I thrive going through life with my family and friends. My tribe. My support system. My family. We are all in it together.  Some say be a doctor. Maybe a lawyer.  Or an accountant. The list can go on, but I feel more now days,  that many will say, "Go Big," or "Follow your passions," and "Life is too short to be doing anything else than what you love." And I agree with all of those things. Life is way too damn short to be doing something that makes you question your very existence. Don't get me wrong being a doctor isn't bad, but if it's not something that isn't you/dread doing, then don't do it. In the end y...

Passion. According to the dictionary, Passion is  an intense desire or enthusiasm for something.  That sounds about accurate. To me passions is something you can do all day and never get sick of it.  Something you spend your time and just get lost with time while doing it. It's not a chore, its a hobby, but you love it. For me passion is equivalent to inspiration. I pretty much associate the two things together. For me my passions and inspiration comes from my family/friends. But also photography! I love the feeling of going on and adventure and capturing a story, a memory, a feeling. When I see a picture, it's like a little movie playing in my head. I remember the exact things of what happened and what was said in that moment that was captured. A picture can make me miss something, it can make me smile like crazy, and I just get a whole bunch of feel good sentimental emotions. I know I was made for this. I can't really explain it, but yo...

First of all I would like to apologize for my lack of organization. Now back to business...You would think about now, that I am 21 years old I would be on somewhat of a path that portrayed a life of "having it all together." But what does that even really mean? You may see some people in college either A) The Partier- having fun all the time, skipping class, never does homework. B) the Juggler- who has a job, goes to school full-time, is paying for everything, (maybe while possibly raising a child) C) the Bat- one who never sees daylight, always studying, may see them in front of the classroom as close as possible to the teacher. The list probably could go on, and obviously some of it is stereotyping. My point was that there are different types of students, but everyone has their life with its own thing going on. Life is great but to be honest a lot of things happen. Life is full of great moments but a lot can be thrown at us as well. I know I'm a little late, but la...

To be quite transparent...Life is pretty rough sometimes. Sometimes a little overwhelming. Okay so I have to be honest. The month of March was definitely a painful one in all the areas of my life. Even a little bit of April but its gotten better. So to make this long story short and to the point. March is my birthday month. I was getting over a really bad cold like the day before my birthday. On my birthday I finally feel a little better and enough to get out of the house. My friends and family we were gonna hang out go to the beach, have a dinner, and then go out with my friends after, which was great! Then I received that phone call, the one that no one ever wants. It was a call saying my great grandmother wasn't doing so well and she was dying. Now my great grandparents were very involved in my life and had everything to do with helping to raise me. My great grandma especially. I have so many very fond memories of her. The kind of memories where even as a toddler I loved adven...

We all have a story of how we got from point A to point B. But what about the in between? Well that’s me, I have this goal and I started having real goals so much later than everyone else. I am so distracted in this world that is so loud and trying so hard to tell us how we should be and how we outta act. But I want to just keep it real. I want to show you my good days and bad days. I want to bring the realities of being a college student. Let’s do life together and struggle, cry, laugh, etc. together. Let’s encourage one another and help each other grow, because there’s only one way to go from here my friend and that’s up. The only desire I have is to get to share my real life and have someone say “I’m so glad I’m not the only one” comment appear in my notifications. Because let me tell you friend I have no idea of how to or where to start off in this life that has so many things that weigh us down. It all came like a big wave at sandy’s and I’m just trying here. And from a pe...