Growing up, I’ve had opportunity to try many (I mean MANY) activities, and thus have a wide assortment of skills– from sword fencing and ice skating to poetry and music. While I never truly pursued most of them to become an expert, I became a sort of jack-of all trades. I became this child who […]
I want you to think about a time when you came home after a long week. It’s FINALLY Friday! In your head, you’re already planning a solo movie and snacks night. You’re ready to kick back and enjoy the evening to yourself. Suddenly, you remember that you were invited to an event tonight– late. Anxiety […]
Hey everyone! It’s been a while since I’ve updated on here. College has gotten so incredibly time-consuming. Lately, I’ve noticed my complete focus on school while I turned a blind-eye towards my hobbies such as blogging. I’ve realized it’s times like these where we need to take a moment to slow down and reflect on […]
A while ago I was hanging out with a close friend and our conversation turned to what presents really make us feel “loved”. She told me that the most moving gift she’d ever received were letters from her friends before she moved away from Canada. “I liked reading what they had to say about me. […]
Erik Erikson (quite the name, am I right?) had eight stages of human psychosocial development. It starts with us as infants, looking for security and connection with our caretakers, to ending with a sense of completion and finality. The eighth, final step of human development is ‘Integrity vs Despair’: when we look back on our […]
If we’re being real here, everyone has something they’d change about themselves. Maybe you want to change your personality– like anxiety-levels or pet-peeves. Or a behavior– like negative self-talk or gossiping. Or maybe you simply want to change your bank account balance (don’t we all LOL). When I was reading through other bloggers’ responses about […]
Today I spent most of my day studying and focusing on school work. However, it felt like the more I studied, the less I knew. “If only I had more time,” I thought. Fast forward to dinner today to the conversation I had with my partner for a class project. Jokingly, we were talking about […]
I saw this prompt earlier this morning while I was trying to mentally escape a boring lecture. It worked somewhat because for the rest of class all I could think about was what everyone should know. As my thoughts drifted, my first idea was the obvious, semantic information. This includes knowledge like chemistry, math, physics […]
I’m back with another (short) blog post! Life at university has been hectic, but I miss writing on my blog so I thought I’d share my gratitude list today Things I’m Grateful for today: Hopefully I’ll get to write more in a future blog post, but that’s all I want to share for today. Till […]