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Living Life One Chapter At A Time
Those who know me well know I like to think, to consider things—mostly out loud, but also to myself. I think about lots of things: school work, my interests, goals, family, close friends, and such. Summer brings to me think about my future as I see life changing for myself and those around me. How hard will the fall semester be with 15 hours of graduate classes? Will I still have time to workout? What social media do I need to delete from my phone to help me focus more? When will I get to see people I care about? Sometimes I found myself overthinking these things, which caused me to worry. Futile planning for the distant future in five to ten years also involved similar unanswerable questions.
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7 Isolation Activities (That Have Nothing To Do With Your Degree!)
I’m positive every last one of you have gotten an email from your professor or boss or person-you-report-to listing all the things you can still do to work towards your degree at home. This is completely excellent, and a very effective way to help people through a very uncertain and ever-changing time.
However, if you’re anything like me, you can blow through a list of targeted objectives like that in no time when you are stuck at home. And not only are you left with nothing to do at the end, you feel completely burnt out and the LAST thing you want to think about is work, school, or your project.
Fear not, I have a handy list of seven things you can do that have nothing to do with your degree that will (hopefully) distract you from social distancing and shelter-in-place orders.
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The Chinese Halloween: Hungry Ghost Month
Halloween is one of my favorite celebrations of the year. I’m not sure why, considering that I have only celebrated two Halloweens so far, and both have been relatively uneventful in comparison to the parties I grew up watching through American drama series like Vampire Diaries and Stranger Things. Nonetheless I enjoy the concept of dressing up as monsters once a year and going around households blackmailing families for candy. And in the spirit of Halloween, I’m going to introduce the Hungry Ghost Month celebrated by the Chinese.
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Put a Ring On It: Is the Aggie Ring for Graduate Students?
I had heard about the Aggie Ring since before I was a student at Texas A&M University. During my ‘prospective student’ campus tour, the guide talked about the RING and the symbolisms it held within the Aggie community. I remember thinking that because I hadn’t completed my undergraduate training here, and didn’t really know about the traditions and rich history of the university I probably wouldn’t get an Aggie ring when the time came...