Last weekend during my spring break, I was able to take a quick trip to Las Vegas with some of my bridesmaids for my bachelorette party! After a long week of reorienting myself to what's going on in my classes, prepping for a midterm, and praying to make it to the weekend to (hopefully) catch up on ...
Introducing Me
With a new chapter in my life and a renewed conviction to keeping up my blog, I figured this would be the perfect time to re-introduce myself for anyone who's new here! My name is Marissa, and I'm a first-year law student (1L) in the Bay Area. I moved to California in the middle of the pandemic, ...
A New Year
Here we are, 2019. I can hardly believe it—it feels like it wasn't that long ago that I was writing my 2017 recap post. That may have something to do with the fact that I only managed to actually get out two other posts since then... I had every intention of doing more, but instead I just have a ...
24
Last week I officially turned 24! I've never been big on my own birthdays, but something feels a bit different about this one. Maybe it's just that 24 seems like some new level of adulthood at which I thought I would surely have all my ish together. Nw that's not entirely the case, but I did ...
Showing Up
Lately I've been thinking a lot about the idea of showing up. Really it's something I've thought about for the past year, but suddenly I can't stop thinking about it. Mostly because I thought I knew what it meant until I recently realized that no, THIS is it. When I was younger, I thought I had ...
2017
Looking back on 2017, I don't know where to begin. All I know is that 2017 has been more of everything. More smiles. More tears. More memories. More living. As cliché as it may be, I'm not the same person that started 2017, and I feel that to my core in a very tangible way. I've experienced ...
