Staci here: your excited, brand new advice columnist.  You may be asking yourself, “who is this girl? Why should I ask her questions about love, life, school, fashion, work, etc.?”  To answer that I’d have to say I’ve been there.  

Cliched, but true.  

I went to N.C. State for my undergraduate degree in psychology and then proceeded to attend graduate school, also at NCSU, for a year.  After about a month I realized graduate school was not where I wanted to be and vowed never to go back to school.  

I then worked full-time for a few years trying out every possible dream of mine, such as wedding planning, working backstage for a theatre company and working in education, before realizing what I wanted most was to be back at college.  

Not exactly go back to school but work on a college campus.  Whenever I would come back to NCSU after graduation, there was always a sense of excitement and energy on campus that — even though I wasn’t in school — I could appreciate and be a part of.  So with this realization, I am now back at NCSU working on a graduate degree in higher education administration.

Along with trying to find the perfect career, I have fought with friends, made new friends, started new relationships, broke up with someone, been dumped, gotten a job, lost a job, traveled and in general, just lived my life.  

These credentials still may not give me the right to tell you what to do, but I love to help people. This will give me an opportunity to show that I am a great listener and I want to help solve people’s problems.

I also recognize the fact that I don’t know everything, but no one does.  If you send me a question and I don’t know the answer to, I promise I’ll do my best to find the answer for you.  I’m not afraid to say I don’t know and ask someone who does.  

I also want to get other’s opinions on your issues. Even if I do feel like I know what I’m talking about, you can get another point of view as well.

In order for this to work, I need you all to send me questions.  I also ask that you give me some details. Simply saying, “my boyfriend cheated on me, what should I do?” doesn’t explain the situation. There’s definitely more to the story than that.

I won’t put your entire story in the paper, but the more information I know, the better advice I can give.  If there’s anything you absolutely don’t want to be published, just tell me in the e-mail.  

You know you have questions and I have the answers or at least I know someone who does.  So get on your computer right now and e-mail me at [email protected]. I’m in graduate school to help students, let me start with you.’t explain the situation. There’s definitely more to the story than that.