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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Hofstra chapter.

After long months of waiting, spring has finally reached Long Island! The cherry blossom trees have bloomed, the trees are beginning to bud, and students lay out on the quad on warm, sunny days.
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Melanie is from Killingworth, Connecticut and graduated from Hofstra University with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism in 2012. She is currently an eCommerce Assistant at Hearst Digital Media in NYC. In her spare time, Melanie blogs, reads, and intensely discusses cinema with anyone who will listen.
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Kaitlin Cubria is a senior Public Relations major at Hofstra University, double minoring in Journalism, and Speech Communications & Rhetorical Studies. Born and raised in Staten Island, NY, Kaitlin always loved going into Manhattan on the weekends. She is a member of the Hofstra chapters of both Ed2010 and Public Relations Student Society of America (PRSSA), the vice president of She's the First Hofstra (non-profit) and acts as a Resident Assistant for Hofstra’s Residential Programs. Outside of her academics, Kaitlin recently finished internships at Hearst Magazines Public Relations, The CW Television Network Affiliate WPIX11 in the Creative Services division AND at New York Magazine. This semester, she has her dream internship at Seventeen magazine in the Web/Features department, where she is the Blog Manager for Seventeen.com's Freshman 15 blog! She is obsessed with pop culture; if you don’t see her reading the newest issue of Seventeen, you’ll probably catch her browsing PerezHilton.com for celebrity gossip. After having a love for both creativity and writing for a majority of her life, Kaitlin is excited to continue her communications/journalism experience at Her Campus! After college, she plans on pursuing a career in either entertainment public relations or magazine journalism.