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MAGPIE
A lifestyle blog that's kind of a mess from a broad just doing her best
The magpie is a mouthy bird who hoards sentimentality, lives unabashedly, and will eat almost everything. That is me. I’m the magpie. Also my name is Maggie. See what I did there?
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maggiemac
- Dec 3, 2022
- 5 min
How to Hard Reset
Every time I get too overwhelmed with my life- my empty bank account, my flightiness, my choices, my self-victimization of said choices,...
maggiemac
- Sep 24, 2022
- 6 min
Law School Girlies
I absolutely love law school. Hold on, hear me out, pick up your jaw from the floor. Surely you're thinking, "Wait, didn't you famously...
maggiemac
- Jul 24, 2022
- 3 min
Kalamazoo as a Summer Fling
Because I am The Most Interesting Woman In The World (tm) ((a strong rebrand from Hoosier Trash (tm))), I've now lived enough places...
maggiemac
- Jun 2, 2022
- 4 min
Maggiemazoo
Do you ever find yourself completely, completely utterly alone at the only hipster-ish (emphasis on the -ish) coffee shop you could find...
maggiemac
- Jul 26, 2021
- 5 min
It really was 1L of a year
Before I started law school, I was super ignorant of the school culture. I knew about how competitive it was (hello, I've seen Legally...
maggiemac
- Mar 16, 2021
- 6 min
1L Law Courses as 1L Students
Contracts: Contracts is that nice, studious girl that you chatted with on Orientation but who quickly spiraled into the tunnel-visioned,...
maggiemac
- Mar 3, 2021
- 8 min
My Favorite Study Daydreams
There comes a point when I'm in the library that my eyes are incapable of focusing any longer. I mean, they definitely possess the...
maggiemac
- Jan 2, 2021
- 8 min
Law School: Expectations v. Reality
Taking the LSAT Expectation: The LSAT is a magical test. It is essentially the closest we'll ever get to a real-life Sorting Hat. When...
maggiemac
- Jul 17, 2020
- 4 min
Magpie Reviews: Strike!
There comes to a point for every voracious consumer of 90s pop culture when you've truly seen it all and a certain emptiness hits. You're...
maggiemac
- Jul 7, 2020
- 8 min
An Echo of Pain and Injustice
I hadn't posted anything on Black Lives Matter on here on Magpie because I thought it would just be assumed I support it. I've attended...
maggiemac
- Jul 3, 2020
- 5 min
How to measure 25
I recently turned 25, which I had been dreading in a vague existential way. I think I was mourning the end of my early 20s, which I...
maggiemac
- Jul 3, 2020
- 6 min
Fixations
One of my favorite spaces on the Internet is the The Cut's search results on its Fixation section. Endless articles promise ruminations...
maggiemac
- Jun 23, 2020
- 8 min
Friendship Hall of Fame
So like any millennial woman who grew up on a steady IV drip of The Saddle Club and H20 that were basically designed with the same Sex...
maggiemac
- Feb 1, 2020
- 5 min
My Dream City Neighborhood
Last night, I went to go see The Gentlemen on a date with myself. ((The movie was pretty great but I do predict that it will be a lot of...
maggiemac
- Jan 24, 2020
- 4 min
Songs to Cry To When You're In Your Feelings
I read somewhere once that there aren't "songs that make you cry" but rather songs that let you cry. I think this was from either a...
maggiemac
- Jan 2, 2020
- 5 min
Media Gal Pals That Gave Me Life in 2019
I tried to write about fifty different sentences that truly encapsulated how trash 2019 was but for the life of me couldn't embody all...
maggiemac
- Nov 12, 2019
- 7 min
Places I’ve Lived as Boyfriends
ZIONSVILLE, INDIANA James Spader is *niche* mean high school heart throb who turns out to be garbage The suburb I was born into was the...
maggiemac
- Oct 2, 2019
- 7 min
Scream Queens To Inspire You This Spooky Szn
It may be surprising to some to find out that I have a special place in my heart for horror/thriller films. From gorgeous cinematography...
maggiemac
- Aug 9, 2019
- 5 min
10 Fun, Flirty Ways to Deal with Crushing Disappointment!
Have you ever gotten some disappointing news that has left you reeling and wondering “wait, what do I do now”? Ever gotten rejected from...
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