Why I Made the Practical Choice: My Internship Program Story | Writing Career Choices

I wrote this blog post in July 2016, the summer before my senior year in university. I never got around to posting it, but I felt that it is still relevant to some people and so I decided to add on to what I previously wrote. I will be making this a series of how …

On the Seventh Day: [Almost] A Week in the World of the Working Adult

In two days, I would have been working for a week. Of those seven days, I worked for four days straight from Tuesday to Friday, from 9AM to 5PM. Here is what I've learned so far: Patience. Commuting to the central business district takes a lot of it. Sometimes, you have to wait for the …

The Life Thereafter: I’ve Graduated, Now What?

The week immediately after my college graduation in May gave me something that I've never had in abundance before - time. I was suddenly free of the classes, papers, exams, org meetings, and research that filled the majority of my time in past four years (fourteen, if we count elementary and high school). I finally …

On Starting New Chapters

The two and a half months of *~funemployment~* are finally ending on Tuesday, August 22, as I begin working for my first job EVER. It's intimidating. It's scary. But it's also very exciting.