When I was a teenager, I spent my days holed up in my room indulging my most fangirly tendencies. From scouring Twitter for fan photos of Harry Styles’s latest rock-god hair transformation to breaking down the latest viral Pretty Little Liars theory point by point — I was the textbook definition of a fangirl.

Then something crazy happened: I got hired as the entertainment editor at Seventeen.com. Of course, a few things happened before that. I studied communications at UMass Amherst. Then I got my masters in magazine and online journalism at the S.I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University. And there was an internship along the way.

But the main point is that now, as a grown human, I still spend my days indulging my most fangirly tendencies — only it’s literally my job.

These days, I'm the Sr. Editor of TV and Film at POPSUGAR, and my favorite part of my job continues to be actually getting to breathe the same air as my favorite celebs every once in a while.