Brittany Given

journal one.

With my head tilted up, eyes closed, I can feel a slight breeze run through my hair. It tickles my face and neck, but it’s a good kind of caress. I reach down, and the water shocks my hand with its coldness. I let my fingers drag in a slow dip along the surface, anyways.Continue reading “journal one.”

drugs ruled everything around me.

The sun had long since set as I pulled up to my driveway, to a building that nursed my childhood but now contained a better part of vacancy, most rooms not having had seen life for months on end. Over the past couple years, days had become a routine from my bedroom to the kitchenContinue reading “drugs ruled everything around me.”

university of texas at zoom.

Who knew six months ago that we would be in the situation we are in now. I think back to then and my memory seriously eludes me, but here we are: unprecedented, yes, but something new. This year of college may not be the year we all were hoping it would be, but I am still excited for what is to come!

lucky number thirteen.

And like counting three… two… one, a snap of the fingers, a blink of the eye (aka, a wink, ah hah hah), my first year of college is done! I never knew that a year could pass by so fast, and an academic year nonetheless. I don’t know who coined the number thirteen as unlucky, but I have felt nothing but blessed throughout this thirteenth year of school.

acing the scholarship essay.

Do you not know where to begin with that daunting scholarship essay? Fear no more, because here I explain the best tips to secure that bread.

overcoming the scholarship process.

College is hard. It’s even harder when you go broke because of it. In this post, I explain how to start the scholarship process and where to look.

welcome to me.

If you could document your life, how would you do it? In middle school, I used to print out pictures and hang them on my wall. You know, there were those picture collages you could make; you could scatter them along the wall or hang them in the shape of a heart. On the otherContinue reading “welcome to me.”