Blog
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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…
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Re-Graduation Pending
Last week, I had my registration appointment for next semester’s classes.Yesterday, I got an email notification about the graduation application period opening.Today, I got the confirmation. It’s jarring to go from the excitement of becoming a new inbound student at San Diego State University in January and find myself staring…
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Eight Months of Academic Progress
With the start of the Fall semester looming, I keep reminding myself that at the end of this next term I’ll only be 9 units away from major program completion, 12 units from completing all requirements by the end of the Spring 2026 semester.
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An Amazing Media Year
I grew up in a time when the “boy’s don’t cry” attitude was still a prevailing and unchallenged social attitude, and with everything that happened to me in my adolescence, my response was to grow callous and rid myself of the high emotional sensitivity I had in early childhood. It…
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Beware Comparisons to Others
Fear and Anxiety are what drive us to compare ourselves to others because we start deriving our sense of who we are and what our value is based on how we stand next to other people —Merlin Mann, Back to Work Episode 4 These words have stuck with me for…
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Before the Fall
Although the San Diego State University summer session doesn’t officially close until the 15th of this month, I got all my remaining coursework done earlier this week. Another pair of A’s locked in for the transcript, and the start of a very brief respite ahead of the Fall 2025 semester.…
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Change of Tack
Along with my usual introspection, I’ve recently started organizing and revisiting my past journal entries & blog posts spread among different digital archives. In doing so, it’s become very apparent to me just how much I’m still being held back by my old ways—the fears of failure and inadequacy, the…
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Forging Ahead
Life right now feels like it’s in limbo. My quotidian existence for the last 3 years and counting has largely been flattened into three simple aspects: the college student, the dog owner, and the basic self responsible for the lower levels of the Maslow hierarchy of needs who since last…
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Harassment Watch
Last Sunday morning, June 1st at approximately 10AM, my roommate took the dog out with him for morning coffee walk before I got up myself. Leaving the apartment minutes later on my own quest for a latte, I had a couple of regular faces around the neighborhood ask where my…
