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When I woke up from my sleep I realized that everything around me was white. My clothes, the bed, the walls, and the floors were all the same bland shade of white. I can’t remember a thing and I feel as though I am empty inside. All I hear is the sound of my own breath and my heart pounding in my chest. I slide my legs off the bed and my bare feet touch the cold, sanitized floors. I attempt to stand up, but my legs feel like spaghetti so I collapse back onto the bed. Instead I surveyed my…

The camp is unpleasant and I seem to continually hear the yells of guards or even the screams of others like me. I hoped to find some relief from this agony in the small amount of sleep I am able to receive, but even in my dreams I am haunted. I am also haunted with the view of the outside, and occasionally I find myself lost in thought staring into the outside. To me, the outside seems to be in another world, as if somehow we were transported into this harsh and cruel world. Stuck here I’m…

“Well, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, right?” “But he’s a guy!” “Didn’t he fight or somethin’?” “Was he asking for it?” “Mr. Pierce? Mr. Pierce?” The brunette hardly moved, staring out the window as people ran to and fro like busy little ants. A perfect baby blue sky cradled the sun, a bright lemon drop with blinding rays. He sighed, making the therapist start in his seat. With light like that, you could just take a magnifying glass and roast all those ants alive. One, two,…

Long ago, in a dark cold misty cave at night, walked a girl named Sally looking for her dog Coco. She kept on walking looking for her dog because she thought he would have wandered in here then she just kept on walking a then she saw something out of the corner of her eye. Sally started to walk closer to whatever it was. Sally was close enough and the roller coaster seemed to be old, dusty and abandoned. The wood was covered in moss and it was covered in dust and dirt. In the moist misty air,…

Jonas could feel it. He did not know what he felt exactly, he just felt it. He knew his feet were cold and numb. He knew he was dirty and disheveled. He definitely knew he was starving, but this. This was new. This was a different type of gnawing. A rougher type. He felt it whenever he wanted to just lie down and sleep forever. Whenever he began to give up. It was a feeling only to be described as a longing. A longing for Elsewhere. A longing for warmth. A longing for what he knew was coming.…

Butterflies. I am not talking about the butterflies that you would go outside with your family and catch with a butterfly net during your childhood. No, I am talking about the butterflies you get in your stomach before you speak in front of a crowd of people. The butterflies I am talking about is the strange feeling in your stomach when you’re about to speak or perform in front of people. You could also get butterflies from a first time experience like the first day of high school or a first…

Why are some people successful and some people not? This question has been thrown around for decades and yet no one could pinpoint the exact reason some people became rich and famous and some were stuck in terrible situations that they could not escape. It all eventually boiled down to one word… Grit. This theory created in 1907 by William James, an American philosopher and psychologist, is now the focal point of many philosophers and scientists thoughts. One psychologist in particular Angela…

“Gobble, gobble,” I heard one! I’m all set up I just made a call and I hear one, but it is so faint and far away I can't get my hopes up. It's my last time to turkey hunt for the season and I have not seen a thing. It's about 6:30am and early spring. What a beautiful day in the woods, I can smell the pine trees and hear the morning birds chirping. I make a call again, trying to mimic a female turkey. I hear the faint gobble again but it's even farther away. My hopes are shrinking. I think I…

Sharp pain pierces my vision leaving me stunned for the first few moments of consciousness. The smell of something sweet and welcoming then fills my senses. I set up slowly, force my eyes open, and glimpse the most vibrant array of forest colors. The numbness in my arms and legs drains as I gape up at the pale purple sky and orange tinted clouds. My eyes drift around my surroundings and take in the new environment. I realize that I don’t know this place. I’ve never seen this forest before! Panic…

Recently I purchased the Starcraft remaster version and I thought I should see if Blizzard has any finance openings. It would be an incredible opportunity to work at a company that has had a huge impact on my life as I have been a fan Blizzard games dating back to the mid 90’s starting with Diablo. I was thrilled to see that a few openings existed in the finance area. Particularly the Senior Manager, Financial Planning, and Analysis because of well it lines up with my past experience and…