The Blog for a College Woman by a College Woman

Bristol King is a third-year computer science major at the University of Georgia, who used her coding and writing skills to create an advice blog for other college women to relate with.

“I never knew what I wanted to do with my life… I have a lot of things I like to do but at the end of the day, I picked coding because I wanted something that would give me flexibility in my life… I picked something that would give me the lifestyle I wanted more so than the career I desired,” King confessed.

With the flexibility of a career in coding, King will be able to do one of the things she loves most, which is traveling. Her first trip was to Barcelona when she was 14, and ever since then she has been all over the world, including Russia, Turkey, Prague, Switzerland, Honduras, Mexico, and many other countries.

In high school, King started a travel Instagram called @theroaminggnome, which has over two thousand followers. Once starting college, she wasn’t able to travel as much, so she stopped posting content.

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“I wanted to create a blog as a college student, for college students”

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She explained, “I want to start it now, so that people can relate to what I’m going through and know that they aren’t alone in their struggles too.” Her biggest concern is the internal side of blogging; having to expose her thoughts, beliefs, and experiences to a world of strangers.

King wants to focus her new blog, The Grateful Undergrad, to focus on the realistic experiences and relationships that a college woman may encounter. A unique aspect of her blog is the additional writers she has asked to supply content, like her best friend, Sarah Davis.

Davis and King have been friends since playing lacrosse together in middle school. Their friendship has lasted through the difficulties of high school and the distance between their universities. King attends the University of Georgia while Davis attends Mississippi State University: a 5-hour drive. King asked Davis to write a few stories for her blog to get another perspective from a college woman.

One of Davis’ favorite memories is when King sent her postcards from her travels, it would only be “three sentences long, but it was perfect… she has always been such an eloquent writer.”

Laura King, King’s mother, agrees with Davis, stating that “Bristol has always had interest in the field of writing”; she won awards for her poetry in middle and high school and wrote books that were well thought out for her age.

Davis and Laura King worry about the time commitment of blogging while still being in college, but they believe that the blog will be a good outlet for King and source for other college women.

King hopes to reveal her blog to the public in the next few months. It was originally scheduled for release at the beginning of November; but due to personal reasons, she has pushed the release date back.