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50 things I wish were real

1. Hogwarts

2. Dragons

3. Quidditch

4. Flying cars

5. Magic carpets

6. Genies in lamps

7. Shadowhunters

8. Non-angry automatons

9. Teleporter

10. the TARDIS

11. Sonic screwdrivers

12. Consistent female pants sizes

13. Felix Felicis

14. Ron Weasely

15. The Doctor

16. Aberforth Dumbledore

17. Human memory external storage

18. AT&T cell service

19. Unlimited laptop hard drive space

20. The intersect

21. Super spy Michael Weston

22. Affordable airplanes with leg space

23. Unicorns

24. Middle Earth-style Elves

25. Lockness Monster

26. Good representatives in Congress

27. Rich, charitable Nigerian princes

28. Accurate Harry Potter movie

29. Automatic perfect vision pill

30. Gondor

31. Transformers

32. Butters from South Park

33. Lightsabers

34. The Millennium Falcon

35. The Force

36. Super healthy meal substitutes that taste like chocolate cake

37. Dæmons

38. Talking puppies

39. Cosmo and Wanda

40. Stitch

41. Mermaids

42. Clone machine

43. Holograms

44. The Enterprise

45. Minis Tirith Space Station

46. Podracing

47. Batman

48. Phasers

49. Spock

50. Space pirates with lightsabers, rocket boots, and plasma grenades that ride space platypuses

 

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10 tips to writing a great college application essay

I may be a little behind, as a lot of you have probably already submitted applications for college, but for those of you graduating next year and those of you who are running a tad late with the whole process, these are ten tips from a current, very happy college student about how to write the best application essay you can. Continue reading “10 tips to writing a great college application essay”

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I’m…. almost not a teenager

Imma party like it's 2001

Tomorrow I turn 20. Tomorrow ends my teenage life. From tomorrow on, I will never be a teenager again. I don’t know exactly how to feel about this. I guess I feel good. I’m kind of relieved in a way; being a teenager was terrible, especially for me. I think I’m ready for adulthood. I really do. Wish me luck.

That’s all for the blog today, folks. Spring semester just started and I have to be ready to party my face off tomorrow (and by “party my face off” I mean “watch Burn Notice and get a crap ton of Facebook notifications”, of course). Have a good week!

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6 Things I Wish They’d Taught Me in High School

EDIT FROM 2019: Hello there! This post is now 7 years old, though it’s still one of the highest-performing posts on my site, so it has been updated slightly. If you want to learn more about what 2019 me, an award-winning independent filmmaker, is up to, head to BriCastellini.com.

It’s been almost nine years since I graduated from high school, but even now, several full time jobs into adulthood, there are still some gaps in my education that I wished were better filled before letting me fly from the public school nest. So here are the six things I wish I’d been taught back in high school that would have benefited me greatly out here in the “real world.” Continue reading “6 Things I Wish They’d Taught Me in High School”