One thing that I loved the most about college was the opportunity to form friendships with so many people. The friends that you make become the people that encourage you, grow you, your partner in crime, your driver, and so much more. All of the friends that I made in college played and continue to play a vital part of my life; I really don’t know what life would be like if I didn’t have them in it. However, there is one type of friend that you NEED in life. A friend that will pray with you! Sounds crazy? It’s not. Of all the people who you need in life, you need…
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Get You A Friend That Prays!
One thing that I loved the most about college was the opportunity to form friendships with so many people. The friends that you make become the people that encourage you, grow you, your partner in crime, your driver, and so much more. All of the friends that I made in college played and continue to play a vital part of my life; I really don’t know what life would be like if I didn’t have them in it. However, there is one type of friend that you NEED in life. A friend that will pray with you! Sounds crazy? It’s not. Of all the people who you need in life, you need…
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Dear Future College Student… You Did It!
Dear Future College Student, Graduation is over! You have made it through high school, Congratulations!! As you make your final decisions on college, I want to give you some advice. Get involved in your freshman year. What I mean by this is find a club, a choir, an organization, or anything that sparks your interest and join it. This is important because as you matriculate through college, the club that you join, will be a resume booster and it will open great networking opportunities. Here is my story about a club that changed my life. When I got to college, one of my professor’s was in the process of starting…
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When Life Gives You Potatoes!
All my life I have heard the saying ‘when life gives you lemons make lemonade’; but what do you do when life gives you potatoes? Potatoes??? Why potatoes? is probably what you are asking about now or how can life give you potatoes. Well let me first explain what a potato is. Potatoes are the swollen part of the plant underground stem called tuber. The tuber provides the green leafy portion of the plant with nutrients, hence why the potato is starchy and called the comfort food. Potatoes are rich in vitamin B6, potassium, copper, vitamin C, manganese, phosphorus, and dietary fiber. When the potato isn’t fried or loaded with all…
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With God, I Can!
There are times in life where I don’t think I am capable of accomplishing the dreams and goals I have for life. Sometimes I see a woman that has all of the capabilities to reach her dreams but somehow fear keeps her from chasing her dreams. I hear the praise that people give me for the things I have accomplished but when I attempt to do something grand I freeze in fear. I freeze in fear because I am afraid of the unknown. I am afraid that I will fail even though the past does not show me failing. I freeze in fear because thinking about being vulnerable is frightening…
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Dear future College Student
Dear future college student, As you decided to come to college, I want to give you some advice. Over the past four years of college I have learned a few things that a professor could not teach and cannot be found in a textbook. These lessons that I have learned come from trial and error through life circumstances. I hope that as you enter college and as I leave, that the knowledge that I have learned and am sharing will be beneficial to you as you start your college journey. The first lesson is, college is NOTHING like high school. High school was a place where you could study for…
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So… I don’t have a Plan
On May 13, 2017, I graduated from Oakwood University! It was the second-best day of my life. After four long years of college, I completed my Bachelors of Science in Biology. I started reflecting over this past school year this week and concluded that the only way I made it across that stage last week was through God. This school year has been one of the hardest for me. I was trying to raise my GPA, I was the Chaplin for Voices of Triumph Gospel Choir (VOT), an intern at the Madison County Health Department in Alabama, the president for the Shot@Life club, tutored and worked two jobs. Not only…
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Big Hair Don’t Care
In December of 2016 I big chopped my hair. Big chopping my hair means that I cut off all of my relaxed ends of my hair or damaged hair. I was about 11 years old when I first relaxed my hair. Relaxing hair is adding chemicals to the hair to change the chemical formation of the hair. I remember when I was 10 or 11 years old wanting to have straight hair so that I was accepted by my “friends”. During the next 9 years I would relax my hair and straighten it with a flat iron so that my hair could be really straight. I would look in the…
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Like a Mustard Seed
I like to stress and worry. If there is nothing to stress over I stress over not being able to stress. I stress, worry and plan to prevent things that will never happen. If I have a lot of things to do I never really do my part and trust God to provide. There are times when my faith in God does not seem to exist. This is very problematic because it is not good for my physical or spiritual health. So for the rest of the month of May and the whole month of June I have decided not to stress or worry. In the bible in Matthew 17:20- 21,…
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God Has A Plan
I find it difficult sometimes to trust and believe that God has a plan and a purpose for my life. I have graduated college and I have no idea what comes next. Fear has paralyzed me so I have not taken the GRE or the MCAT. I haven’t applied to much because I haven’t taken any of those test’s and because I believe my GPA is not competitive enough. Yet, my heart burns with a passion for public health, children’s health, nutrition, medicine, writing and the gospel; which I believe has something to do with the plan God has for my life. That could have been the end of the…
