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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
Aug 18, 20163 min read
My Cover Letter
After getting yet another LinkedIn email that told me I need to congratulate a vague acquaintance on her job promotion, I began my...
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maggiemac
Aug 14, 20163 min read
Just Call me Maggie Antionette: Week 1 in Romania
Last Saturday, I landed in the Romanian airport, struggling with 50lb bags and the crushing realization that I looked like prime mugging...
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maggiemac
Aug 8, 20164 min read
My Completely Serious Application for The Bachelor
I’ll admit it. I watch the Bachelor…and the Bachelorette. But I draw my line at Bachelor in Paradise. At least some part of me can...
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maggiemac
Jul 18, 20164 min read
Thank you, Taylor Swift
I’m cashing in on this #KimExposedTaylorParty *drama* with something that I’m sure no one else is saying right now. No I’m not going to...
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maggiemac
Jul 12, 20163 min read
Engaged and Enthralled
In Hunger Made Me a Modern Girl by Carrie Brownstein, of the punk 90s rrriot girl band Sleater-Kinney and ultra-alt comedy show...
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maggiemac
Jun 29, 20161 min read
Post-Grad Post 2
As told by the queens of “just figuring it out”, the broads of Broad City: 1. Considering Tinder dates for free meals: 2. Lying to...
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maggiemac
Jun 17, 20168 min read
I Want Something Done: My Experience with the Indiana GOP
(I debated writing this post because I wrote it in a dramatic and overemotional state, which when you read it, you’ll understand why I...
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maggiemac
May 17, 20164 min read
Mindy Kaling, Imaginary Best Friend
Tina Fey isn’t the only smart lady in comedy that I turn to in times of duress or when I’m in need of council. I also turn to who I truly...
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maggiemac
May 9, 20165 min read
Impostor Syndrome, Sylvia Plath, and Being 20
Alternatively Titled: How I Went From Being Ahead of The Game to A Prime Example of Failure to Launch At the beginning of the year, I was...
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maggiemac
Apr 11, 20167 min read
What I Learned From My 24hr Online Dating Experience
Let me preface what led me to this moment in which I, Maggie McMillan, confidently independent woman and outspoken advocate against...
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maggiemac
Mar 26, 20162 min read
Bollywood Reactions for the Everyday Life
One time a friend asked what my guilty pleasure movies were and I contemplated admitting to my Bollywood obsession. In some ways, there’s...
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maggiemac
Feb 29, 20164 min read
Accompanying Awareness: Thoughts for Our Social Justice Age
Graduating from my liberal arts college has been strange and a bit empty. I no longer see people in public places not wearing shoes, or...
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maggiemac
Feb 12, 20164 min read
A Heroine’s Book Guide: Part 1
One of the perks of post-grad life that I’m really enjoying is how much time I get to read again. I realize that my unique circumstances...
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maggiemac
Jan 21, 20162 min read
For Every Post-Grad Out There…
There’s a bizarre stage in life that affects a very specific demographic of people but is widely regarded as one of the most the most...
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maggiemac
Jan 12, 20161 min read
post-grad
It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not...
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maggiemac
Dec 1, 20151 min read
15 Thoughts On 15 Days
In honor of graduating in fifteen days, here are fifteen reactions. When I realize that I’m graduating in two weeks Yet I’ve only been at...
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maggiemac
Nov 30, 20151 min read
Untitled
However, I continue to try and I continue, indefatigably, to reach out. There’s no way I can single-handedly save the world or, perhaps...
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maggiemac
Nov 22, 20152 min read
The Maggie’s Day Parade of Friendship and Thanksgiving
Last year, I attended a Friendsgiving thrown by a guy’s apartment in my building. I was friends in a shallow sense with one of the guys...
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maggiemac
Nov 9, 20152 min read
Dear Person I Have Hurt
I believe it’s important to go through a season of humility, to confront yourself with the grimy, uncomfortable realities of human...
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maggiemac
Oct 29, 20151 min read
For You, Dear Friend
You know when you’re a college student, and you have no money, and you also have no time to plan anything beyond your essays and...
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