Isabel’s Millennialogue: Boost Your Confidence!

Hi, everyone! I feel terrible for not vlogging all summer, but hey, life happens. I’m so glad to be back. This seriously fills a void in my life. But down to business: I got a comment from Bobby Bob on YouTube asking for advice on confidence and social anxiety. Since I’ve got way too much to say about these subjects, I’m splitting this into two series: Part 1 on Confidence and Part 2 on Social Anxiety. Continue reading

Isabel’s Millennialogue: Why I Chose Engineering

In case you didn’t know, I’m a mechanical engineer-in-training (meaning I graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering and I’m doing my 4 years experience before I become a certified Professional Engineer).  I took my National Professional Practice Exam back in January and saw that I was one of the handful of women in a room of hundreds of engineers-in-training!  I completely forgot how male-dominated this profession is. Continue reading

Isabel’s Millennialogue: Embrace the Mess

Millennialogue [mil-len-ee-uh-log] (noun):
A speech written or spoken by a member of the Millennial generation about topics concerning the Millennial generation; first written and posted on the internet via YouTube by Isabel Valoria; seriously, before this post “millennialogue” was not found anywhere by Google 🙂

But seriously, “embrace the mess” (Nora Ephron, 1996) has really put a new and positive perspective in my life. Continue reading