why i started blogging

First and foremost... Welcome to Southern Mell! I'm glad that you took time out of your day to spend here on my blog. This probably should've been my first blog post, but I had so many other ideas that I was really eager to share with you first!

I'm Melecia and I will be starting college in Texas in fall of 2017. I'm a dedicated student and a college athlete so I'm really excited and a little nervous to see how my college life takes off. My goal in creating Southern Mell is that I can use this website as a way to help any of you that are wondering about what it's like to go off to college and the decisions you'll have to make along the way. I hope that in reading my lifestyle blog you will learn something from my college experiences as I transition from a high school senior to a college freshman. I also think that you could learn something about how I workout and my style as well.

I should probably address why I picked the name I did for this blog. I chose to name this blog Southern Mell because I'm a born and raised Texan (hence the southern part) and Mel rhymes with bell so it was only fitting. 

I have always wanted to have an outlet to express my feelings and experiences with everyone and it wasn't until I started reading other blogs that I finally made the decision to start my own. The blog that inspired me to create this blog is Jessica Slaughter's blog. She has a lot of really great content about college and other topics that I really enjoy reading. After, reading through Jessica's blog and some others I really found that starting my own blog would be great for me and I was excited to get started. 

I thank you all for taking the time to read through this post, I'm thrilled to start this journey and I hope you'll stick around!