A Determined Black Woman

  If there is one Nelson Mandela did not lie about, its education, especially higher education. I advocate for traditional avenues of acquiring knowledge and I passionately believe in academia. It is an amazing learning experience which prompts us to question, challenge and reconstruct knowledge. In today’s age of social media, Institutionalized Education is made to seem completely ‘overrated’ and not lucrative enough. Which is totally up for debate and subjective. In this blog post, I will provide my top 5 benefits of being in a Higher Education Institution and acquiring a degree. Yes, we live in a country that has a 46.3% Youth Unemployment rate which makes Higher Education even more undesirable because graduates are standing in intersections with placards stating their qualifications to be seen by a potential employer and secure a job. However, we cannot all be entrepreneurs, content creators, youtubers and all other ‘nontraditional’ careers. The magic of education is that even ...

  Mid-year check-in blog post. I haven’t done this in a while, mainly because life was happening for me and I needed to prioritize. Between school, work and the blog my plate was life and I couldn’t commit to everything at once. Getting my degree is my number one priority and I had to put all my energy towards that. It is the semester break and I couldn’t wait to get back into blogging. I missed this part of my life.   Today’s blog post is a mid-year check in. Like most people, I sat down and worked on my vision board at the beginning of the year. I had short, medium and long term goals on there. Creating a vision board is all fun but that’s not where the work stops. We actually need to have systems in place to help us achieve these goals. Right before I sat down to pen this blog post, I went through my vision board to see how far I have come regarding my goals in the first 6 months of the year and to be honest, I am happy with my overall progress. I broke down my vi...