As soon as I could formulate words, I’ve been writing. Here are snippets of my articles, thoughts, lessons, and anything else that pops up in my mind.
Over four years ago, on August 17th, 2017, I deleted social media. I’m sure you can find a million reasons why; it’s addictive, time-consuming, toxic…But I’m not here to say social media is bad. Social media can be an incredible tool that helps us connect - with people we’ve met and people we may never meet. I deleted it because I wasn’t using it right.
Read MoreWhen I accepted the offer to UW’s Graduate Program in March of 2020, I was extremely hopeful that I’d step foot into a classroom again. By the time September rolled around, unfortunately, that wasn’t the case. Quarter after quarter, I’d hope for a chance to be in-person again and be met with disappointment. The COVID-19 outbreak numbers spoke for themselves, and it just wasn’t safe. We completed the year online, and I never met a single classmate or professor in person.
And that was out of my control. If I learned anything this year, it’s how much I can’t control — and how much I can.
Read MoreWhen I tell someone I’m part of the class of 2020, it’ll be met with looks of pity. They’ll ask me what it was like to graduate in 2020.
They’ll probably expect something like “Oh, it was awful. We didn’t get our senior formals, capstone fairs, graduation…”
“We got fired from jobs we hadn’t even started…”
“We didn’t get to say goodbye”
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