Erin Migdol

Bio

Erin Migdol is a freelance writer for Mic. Her writing has been featured on LAStageTimes.com, FabFitFun.com and the Huffington Post, and she is currently an assistant editor at Inside Weddings magazine. She is a UC Davis alum and resides in Los Angeles.

Having a Ton of Instagram Followers Can Make You Absolutely Miserable

Like many girls her age, Hanna Russell, 21, first created an Instagram account when she was in high school, as a way to keep in touch with her friends. But after she landed a modeling contract, her number of followers grew to the low thousands. A…

What It's Like To Be A 20-Something Relationship Virgin

Like most people his age, Marcus, 27, goes on dates every once in a while. He's had a few friends with benefits and he dated one person for less than six months. But has he had a serious, committed, meet-the-parents type relationship? Not yet. "When…

Here's What It's Really Like to Be Sober When You're in Your 20s

After years of struggling with depression, Lucy*, 23, started taking antidepressants. The medication she was on mixed badly with alcohol, so she made the decision to stop drinking around the same time. Almost a year later, Lucy is now totally…

These Introverts and Extroverts Sound Off on the Struggles They Face Dating One Another

Kirstin* and her boyfriend Eric had already had two busy weekends in a row when Eric surprised Kirstin with the news they'd be going to his coworker's home to hang out later that night. On the way, he also revealed that his coworker had two children…

8 Reasons Why the Middle Child Is the Best Child

If there was a "Battle Hymn of the Middle Child," it would undoubtedly be "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!" Those immortal words were of course uttered by The Brady Bunch's middle daughter, Jan, in a moment of frustration that her big sister Marcia always…

Is Silicon Valley the Best Place to Be a Single Woman in America?

On a Friday night in downtown Palo Alto — just a stone's throw from Stanford University, office buildings and the technology hub of San Jose — the college bars and vegan restaurants lining its streets teemed with single men. But at Nola, a…

Camp Love Is Possible — Just Take It From These 9 Couples

Ah, summer camp: when your days are filled with fight songs and Sloppy Joes and lanyards, and your nights are filled with stuffing your bra and making out with one of the junior lifeguards behind your bunk. As the campers and counselors in the…

Meet the Daring Young Women Showing the World How to Stand-Up to Slut-Shaming

When Alexis Frulling was secretly recorded having a threesome in a deserted alley and the clip went viral on Reddit, she could have hid in the shadows, hoping no one would recognize her in the video. But instead, she uploaded a YouTube video calling…

9 No-Bullshit Quotes Sum Up What We're Really Looking For in This Crazy Dating World

It's easy to get stressed out over dating. We pore over dating stories, consult friends on the simplest texts, try to game algorithms and obsess over the signs or checklist items that will tell us when it's "right." But amid all the stress and…

Here Are the Absurd Ways We Learned What Sex Was (That Definitely Weren't Sex Ed)

What do Leonardo DiCaprio, our cool childhood next-door neighbor and Google all have in common? They're the ones who taught many of us about s-e-x. When it comes to the birds and the bees, we grow up piecing together information from a random…