throwback thursday: first day in residence

these pictures are from my very first day in residence, back when i was rocking the ombre hair. i can remember thinking that first year was going to be terrible and spending almost all day in this tiny room my first few weeks at res because going outside and meeting people just seemed too terrifying. but as the year progressed i've made some pretty incredible friends and memories that will last forever. this year has been unreal. it's funny looking back and remembering how i felt the very first day of res, and seeing how it's all played out now that my time here is almost up. 

love, liz 

last days in residence

this picture is from a couple of days ago, which happened to be the last day i had everything in my residence room. you see, today i started slowly packing up my room. my pictures are no longer hanging. most of my clothes have been taken home. it's gradually returning to the bare room it was when i first moved in. residence has been such an incredible experience and i'm so sad for this time to come to an end. at the same time i am beyond excited for this summer and all it has in store. just three more finals to get through and i'm free. saturday could not come any faster!

love, liz

the way mornings go around here

this morning was rough. i think i've become nocturnal because i seem to be consistently staying up till the sun rises and sleeping into the late afternoon. today though was an exception. it was fridge return day here at residence which means i had to carry down a mini fridge to the lobby at 10 am. which for most people would be fine. but for nocturnal liz that was like getting up in the middle of the night to do physical labour. and i'm not about that life. i tried to sleep afterwards but my fantastic friends decided that it would a great time to hang out. so as i lay in bed looking super unimpressed and wishing i could go back to sleep they started taking pictures and mocking my need for sleep during the day. and this is how mornings seem to be going these days.

love, liz

the things you do at 2 am

like deciding that it would be a good time to take pictures 

which means doing hair and makeup 

oh the things you do in university at 2 am

when you really should be sleeping 

or studying 

or anything productive really 

love, liz 

no one should be functioning before 7 am

picture from a while ago, seen on the blog here 

good morning friends,

because i must be a crazy person i decided way back when to sign up for 8 am classes every day of the week. i thought i could do it, i really could. i'm mean how bad could it be? said naive me. it will be so nice to be finished your day so early. but staying up till 4 and waking up at 6:30 are just two things that do not mix. and daylight savings is making this more apparent. it doesn't make it any easier when your first class is rock climbing. i don't think anyone wakes up 4 hours before they'd like and says  yay i'm so excited to be awake to go rock climbing for two hours this morning! well this monday is the last time i'm going to have to be up this early. and i couldn't be more excited. last week of classes here we go.

love, liz

after careful consideration...

so a couple weeks ago i decided to fill out an application to be an orientation week leader for next year. now, i'm far from the stereotypical super outgoing always excited first year leader. but hey, all my friends were doing it and they said it would be fun so i gave it a shot. so at 4am after cramming for a midterm and finishing an assignment i gave this application a go. i'm convinced that 4am is when my best work is accomplished. now i have to tell you, the thing about this position is that it's super competitive. there was probably close to 800 applications for 200 spots. so after filling it out and submitting i was pretty sure i wouldn't get it.

so fast forward to today. application results were being handed out. and guess what, against all odd somehow i got chosen. niiiiicee. i may have squealed a little when i found out. in front of everyone else who got their applications. super cool liz. 

but hey. i'm pretty excited. 

have a good weekend friends. 

love, liz 

st. patrick's day

started the day off at 8 am, didn't stop till 3 am. safe to say it was a success

so there's this harlem shake thing

youtube link

some of you guys may have heard of this or not, but this is kind of a big deal over here. all the universities have been putting together their versions of the harlem shake, and this is ours. my tiny head is somewhere in the middle of this crowd. check it out, all money raised from watching the video is going towards cystic fibrous. this makes me so proud to be a golden hawk. hawk on!

reasons why this weekend has been perfect so far

this weekend is perfect, and it's only saturday afternoon. after a couple stressful weeks this is honestly just what i needed.

i spent friday night with my youngest sister. going out for dinner, watching movies, reading magazines- having the best time. she is such an incredible little person at such a fun age. i can remember desperately wanting an older sibling around her age, wishing i could do "grown up things" and have someone to hang out with. so whenever i get the chance to do that with her i absolutely love it.

this afternoon was spent with my mom. shopping, chatting and grabbing tea and a cupcake from the cutest most delicious bakery i have ever been to. these couple of days makes me so thankful for the family that i have, and the time i get to spend with them.

love, liz

a night at res // in an instant

a few of the many instant pictures that were taken last night
so here's to university life, where partying on a thursday night is completely acceptable

mac miller

i just bought tickets to see mac miller because all my friends are going. i don't even know who he is though, so i've been trying to listen to his music and decide if i like him. i'm still on the fence. {image website}

i really need to start following this wheat free thing; and other things that have been on my mind

i have a wheat intolerance {and i'm pretty sure lactose as well}. and before coming to university i was really good at avoiding both of those things. and then i went away to school. and it's really hard. i don't have a mother who will buy me the type of food i need. or cook me special meals. i have the kitchen staff at the dining hall. and they don't seem to be as understanding. there's also the two a.m. pizza runs with friends that look oh so appealing. and the cupcakes our don makes for us. and it all looks so good you know? it would be so much easier to just pretend like i don't have dietary restrictions and just eat whatever. so what does any logical university student do? they try to pretend they can eat whatever they want. but friends, i wish it was that easy. for the last couple of months i've been "yoloing" it and just eating whatever i wanted. wheat free or not. and it's really starting to catch up with me. the headaches that set it. the joint pain. stomach pain. bloating. trouble sleeping. it's so not worth it! but everyday i find myself eating waffles or that slice of pizza.

i wish i had millions of dollars sometimes. so that i could just move to a city {preferably in london} and live in a really fabulous apartment. and buy local organic food. and cook meals that i can actually eat. and life would just be so much better. that is what has been on my mind recently. 

more realisitcally i'm really looking forward to going home for christmas holidays and not eat junk food 24/7. and have some gluten free food {who would have ever thought i'd look forward to that}. i also really need to make a better attempt at eating food that i'm actually suppose to be eating at university. 

i've also been having a bit of mid-life blog crisis {which seems to happen more frequently than not}. sometimes i think my life right now is just so boring and trivial. i live in a room that is probably the size of most people's bathrooms. i go to class. i study. i occasionally go out. and repeat. i post poorly lit picture of my outfits in a room that is wayyy too yellow. i complain about things that bother me. and somedays, like today, i just stop and think "who would actually want to read about this, because i certainly wouldn't". the blogs that i enjoy reading i enjoy because of the lifestyle they live, or portray, is something i enjoy or aspire to be like. i wish i could take really cool pictures of my day like this blog. or share polaroid pictures of me going on daily adventure's like this one. i wish my outfit posts would turn out like this. i don't have a significant other to go on adventures with. i'm not a size zero and a fabulous model. i don't own copious amounts of vintage furniture and accessories. i guess i just don't know what i want my blog to be about right now. but i'm in the process of figuring that out. 

for anyone who actually read all of this, props. i really don't like ranting on my blog because it just feels pathetic, but i find sometimes it helps sort ideas out. only two more weeks and then i'll be done finals and enjoying christmas break. can. not. wait!! 

this makes my heart so happy

we had a bit of a surprise blizzard here early this weekend. i love this time of the year when the snow still looks pretty. also i was feeling creative and decided to decorate my dorm room for the holidays. twinkle lights and heart banners are my favourite. hope everyone had a fantastic weekend!

it's that time of the year again...

i wish i was referring to christmas. but alas, it looks as if christmas celebration is going to have to wait a couple of weeks. right now we're down to the the final weeks of school and all hell is breaking loose. assignments are due left and right. finals are imminent. i might not make it guys. this is going to be rough.

on the bright side i got some new moccasins. which i love. although i may have already destroyed them a little bit by wearing them out to a kegger. we got our first snow this weekend which made outside extra awful for brand new shoes. the difficulties i go through, i swear.

- e

"i did not march all this way to be locked out by a door"

things that happen at six in the morning. #universitylife

in 24 hours i will be a lot happier

but until then it's time to study for my biology midterm. love school. so. much. 

that moment after you drink four large caffeinated teas within two hours

and your head feels like it might fall off. or explode. whichever comes first. this is what university has done to me. #healthynothealthy #iknowthisisn'ttwitterbutletsallpretend

hurricane sandy, bring it.

two sweaters. three pairs of socks. winter mitts. baseball cap. wool circle scarf. rain boots. windbreaker. water resistant leggings. this is what one had to wear tonight to walk to the dining hall tonight. things are getting legit over here.

so i must be living under a rock or something because i just found out that there's a little hurricane planning on stoping by tonight. perfect. can the power please go out and there be tremendous amounts of flooding so i don't have to write my midterm tomorrow? please and thank you xx.

healthy eating at univeristy? ha.

the thought of eating copious amounts of junk food always sounds like an amazing idea in the beginning. like you know when you were younger and you went on long roadtrips/vacations and you would stop at pretty much every mcdonalds during your travels. and as a young kid this was basically the best things that could ever happen to you because mcdonalds = heaven at age ten {or really any age, let's be honest}. but then by the end of your trip the thought of another hamburger and fry meal actually made you feel sick? well university life is my roadtrip and the food here is like mcdonalds. chips. pizza. skittles. granola bars. pop chips. hummus. more pizza. i have eaten waay too much of you and this needs to stop. i can't even remember what real food tastes like its been so long. #serious problems.

*my posts about food issues will stop i promise, but it's kind of a big deal right now. bare with me.

can you give it a second to get back from space

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