January 2011
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Remember:
When a door closes, another opens.
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Baby Steps
1 day, 3 days, 1 week, 2 weeks, 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year.
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not a goodbye, then what is it?
You’re going off to bootcamp! I can’t even believe that right now. You’re leaving from home to Chicago in less than 24 hours. has time really moved that fast? I swear it was just yesterday we were meeting each other in Bio class and you beat me on one stupid test. You’re always there to greet me back when I come home from college, despite me having sucked at keeping in...
I think uncertainty (not knowing if I’m making the right choice, if i’m going to be potentially screwed for a job in the future, if i’m ruining my life…etc.) really screws with my brain. I can’t make a decision that seems “permanent” without thinking about all the other potential options and outcomes. I think it’s why it prevents me from truly being...
20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World →
1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular...
Australia
Today, I started my Penn Abroad application (officially) since I got cleared on the website. Thinking about Australia and all the adventures I’m going to have gives me butterflies in my stomach. When I imagine going abroad in my future—being even farther away from home but with the twist of being in a foreign country, I imagine… well, I don’t know what to imagine actually...
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To achieve things, I think you really need to want it. I’m not talking about the superficial desire of wanting an A on the paper. I mean the drive to obtain the result, against all means.
