Oh Pinterest, our relationship is complicated. I love the way you make me want to work out, try to better myself in the kitchen and try a little harder on my appearance and even broaden my style, but then again you leave me reminded I will forever be ugly, fat and poor.

When you sign up for Pinterest they have a few basic boards to start you out with; the only one I have kept is the “My Style” board, where I have pinned the most pins. It is my dream closet filled with designer shoes, bags and of course every piece of clothing anyone could ever think of. Not only can you not afford any of the stuff in this board, but also you cannot find it on any website ever. There is the occasional few that if you click on them a website for a shop will appear, but most of the time a blog will come up; oh thanks I would love to read about how much we both want these shoes, but cannot find them anywhere.

Pinterest, you also remind me that my cooking skills are at an all-time low. Instead of getting home from class and using a meal swipe to get $7.85 worth of delicious treats, I now come home to frozen foods I bought myself at Wal-Mart. It’s like my diet consists of anything frozen and pizza flavored, it’s becoming disgusting. So my first instinct was to go to Pinterest to find new recipes. Yea, I have learned a thing or two, but some of the stuff on there is just telling me to go get my meal swipe back because I will never be able to balance homework, sorority, friends, family, boyfriend and a full course meal all in one day. So does anyone know of a healthy frozen flavored pizza, or no…?

Then, the next board is the motivation board. Oh, don’t you wish you had skipped that fifth piece of Cousin Vinny’s pizza now? Everyone has abs, muscles, beautiful skin and perfect everything, and then there is me, sitting on my computer, eating a whole pizza to myself and pinning things I might do if I ever make it to the rec.

Finally, almost every girl I know has the hair and beauty board. Like oh lets try to grow our hair mermaid long and contour our faces. I see short hair and I want short hair, I see long hair, I want long hair… I will never win. Then, have you ever even tried to contour your face? I did and my mom thought I did not rub my makeup in all the way, but I’m sure that is just me not knowing what I am doing? Please someone tell me this is you too?

All in all, I love Pinterest. It is entertaining and it does make me want to better myself in literally every single way, but let's face it, Pinterest is a made up fantasy world; boys have Fantasy Football and we have Pinterest. So eat that fifth piece of pizza while pinning a work out for tomorrow, buy extensions if you cannot decide what length hair you want and shop at Forever 21 because that is pretty much the closet we will get to our style boards. Pinterest is there for guidance, and it is there to remind us to work hard, because one day after we graduate and get big girl jobs we will be able to buy Louis Vuitton luggage and have abs while eating pizza, because I’m sure healthy low cal. pizza will be a thing by then.