mindfulness
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goodbye 2025!
Hello friends! Hard to believe it’s almost that time again to reflect on all of our choices from the past year and then make a list for all of the choices we intend to make next year (definitely NOT to forget about it within 3 weeks). Just kidding… kind of! Jokes aside, 2025 has definitely…
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a long overdue update :>
To my 6 beloved readers, I apologize for falling off the face of the earth for the entirety of my first semester! I have some jumbled thoughts, they are still quite jumbled, and perhaps over the upcoming weeks of winter break I will reorganize them… for now, I’ll just share them as they are, along…
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it’s what you make it
Sitting at my school’s convocation the other day, I was listening to one of the important people leading the assembly go on about how we will remember this day for the rest of our lives. Big statement, honestly. Sitting there in the crowd, I started to get a bit nervous. Suddenly, I was under the…
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if nothing changes, nothing changes
Hellooo friends:) Here are some quick late-night thoughts on taking action to make change. I’ve been living in the dorm for not even a week now, but with community dinners and everyone getting used to residential life, we’ve recently accumulated a lot of food waste. And by a lot, I mean… a LOT. Probably up…
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be your own biggest influencer
Hello!!! It hasn’t been so long since I wrote last, but it feels like ages!! In the past week, I moved out to San Francisco for school and have been exploring this beautiful city. And of course, with exploring a new place and entering a new chapter comes many new ideas. The subject that I…
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failing, falling behind, and figuring it out
Okay, I’ll be the first to admit: I am a professional procrastinator. This summer, heading into my freshman year at university, we had a few pre-assessments to take in math, programming, and writing which would determine the work we need to complete over the summer. Having no programming background whatsoever, it is no surprise that…
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daring to try
This morning, I went on my very first group cycling ride β something that I’ve been wanting to do for a very long time, but hadn’t ever acted on. As someone fascinated with this sport, but totally lost on how to “enter” the community, I’d been resorting to cycling alone. I love cycling as a…
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learning how to experience life and intentionally taking it slow
How should I choose to spend my time? This is a question that I’ve been asking myself a lot recently. When I returned from my gap year in Taiwan, I knew that this summer, in many ways, would be a unique time in my life. I had just come home for the first time in…
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it’s the long run that counts
Today, I raced a local half marathon and I’d like to share some of my quick post-race thoughts. I’ve been running for a little over a year and a half, and raced my first half marathon a little over a year ago. I mostly run just for fun, and am not super competitive but I…
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is life always better when we’re looking back on it?
Hello hello hello! Unfortunately, this blog has not seen the light of day in much longer than I intended (whoops) but I am back!!! This post’s topic is just as the title says: is life always better when we’re looking back on it? Recently, I’ve been doing a lot of reflecting on my gap year…