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Earth: Making of a Planet
I’m the sort of person that enjoys watching a good documentary, with a particular softs spot for animals and wildlife. However, my favorite title is easily National Geographic’s 2011 Earth: Making of a Planet, available in full on multiple YouTube accounts: The first time I watched it, I was absolutely…
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Facing Fears
The way life has continued since my last update, the more the chakras from Avatar: The Last Bender have remained saliently in mind. Particularly since current themes relate to the starting one I skipped: Earth/Root—governing survival, impeded by fear. At this moment, I find myself dealing with the uncomfortable reality…
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My Biggest Secret
It’s a time of great upset in my personal life, so many challenges hitting me at once. There’s the stress of the post-undergraduate job seeking in such a hostile and scarce job market, and the anxiety over affording the MBA program I was accepted to in the face of all…
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The Last of the Lews
With graduation from SDSU looming on the horizon less than six months away, there’s a lot on my mind as to what comes next. In the short term, rejoining the workforce with a shiny new bachelor’s degree in hand and finding a way to pursue a master’s degree. In the…
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The Books That Made Me
A rumination that’s crossed my mind multiple times this year has been the first stories that made me: my favorite books as a child, and just how deep their influence ended up running. I started reading before grade school. I’d had exposure to reading basics in pre-school, and more importantly,…
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What a Year
From being a fresh transfer student at the beginning of the year to now coming up on my final semester. Eleven demanding months of academic rigor, 16 units over the regular semester and 10 over the summer session, now fully reflected in my degree audit. To have gotten this much…
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Unburdened
While this year has been spent prioritizing my academic obligations as an SDSU student, all the while I’ve also been following up on the court case against my harasser. Moving the case to the appellate court took so long that it ended up being the Fall final exams that it…
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A Trying Year Completed
I did it. All final exams and presentations done. Opening appellant’s brief finished and filed. Final “group” written report that I ended up self-writing to about 13 pages of copy, 25 pages total with cover page/table of contents/appendices, riding the momentum from all that legal brief preparation. What I feel…
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A Note From the Underground
The SDSU Fall 2025 final exam period has been a capstone gauntlet on a very challenging year. Back in January, I was a fresh transfer student having just completed all of the final requirements for my associate’s degree in the summer of 2024 and applied on a whim during the…
