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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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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...
maggiemac
Aug 18, 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...
maggiemac
Aug 14, 20163 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...
maggiemac
Aug 8, 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...
maggiemac
Jul 18, 20164 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...
maggiemac
Jul 12, 20163 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...
maggiemac
Jun 29, 20161 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...
maggiemac
Jun 17, 20168 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...
maggiemac
May 17, 20164 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...
maggiemac
May 9, 20165 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...
maggiemac
Apr 11, 20167 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...
maggiemac
Mar 26, 20162 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...
maggiemac
Feb 29, 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...
maggiemac
Feb 12, 20164 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...
maggiemac
Jan 21, 20162 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...
maggiemac
Jan 12, 20161 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...
maggiemac
Dec 1, 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...
maggiemac
Nov 30, 20151 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...
maggiemac
Nov 22, 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...
maggiemac
Nov 9, 20152 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...
maggiemac
Oct 29, 20151 min read
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