I feel like I should be encouraging, but there’s a reason that my answer to, “how do you feel about finishing grad school?”is “scared!”

Ugh, i’m sorry! I’m graduating from grad school in a month, with a masters in public helath, and all the things i’ve heard about academia make me not want to get a doctorate. Hopefully, i can get a job soon.

I was more active on bumble and tinder over the summer, but the dates were kind of meh. I’m also still kind of sad that my favorite comedian swore off dating apps before I could find his bumble profile. :(

I’m a grad student, and my parents are pretty chill, so i’m enthusiastically going to eat with them so I can get a free meal and the easter basket my mom made. I may have to tune out my grandmother if she starts talking about why I should start praying to god and Jesus again.

Right?! Like, he was a nice enough guy, he just needed to start taking up some more hobbies/not being so down on himself and the hobbies he already had.

I went a few dates with a guy in finance who kept saying how boring his life was, and at first I thought he was just being self-deprecating, then I realized he was right. =/

“I’m busy worrying about people other than myself.” (He’s in the same public health program as me and a hardcore communist, so I think it was his way of saying that spending so much time thinking about his own life by dating would be selfish)

I read an article that said that it’s probably not completely random. Like, maybe they randomly decide based on all of the people in economy class, but the people who have some sort of United membership or bought a ticket for a more expensive seat probably were exempt from the chance at getting kicked off the plane.…

Can there be cats too? I’m currently working on trying to lure a friendly stray cat into my apartment so I can take it to the vet, and then make it my fur baby.

I didn’t have much time to watch TV this week, but i watched an episode of Insecure earlier this week, just watched the last episode of New Girl and am now catching up on Scandal.

A couple of my friends do this thing called the Pomodoro technique where you work for 25 minutes without stopping then take a 5 minute break, then repeat that, and take a longer break (15-20 minutes) after every fourth 25 minute working session.

Congrats!!! My brag is that i’ve spent at least one hour a day social dancing for the past five days even though i’m kind of shy. Also, today i was at a salsa social in Central Park, and apparently Tony Goldwyn was watching part of it and he took a video and put it on his instagram.

Haha, you should get a Twitter and see how much the twinja (kinja+Twitter) people ship each other. Also, ughh, dating in NYC is the worst.

Also, when survey-based research is conducted with minors, research participant protection procedures tend to be even more stringent. Conducting survey-based research actually takes a lot of work, and if a school is either being funded by the CDC to conduct the Youth Behavior Risk Survey, or is taking on that research…

Haha, that sounds like the quintessential Hallmark Christmas movie, and I can’t believe I haven’t watched it yet.

I’m sorry about your dad.

I hope you get to go too! =)

I have two essays prepared based on whether or not I leave New York after I get my Masters:

Having experienced summer in both Houston and NYC, I will say that summer in Houston is slightly more manageable, if only because air conditioning is a given, not a maybe, and you can drive to work instead of having to wait on steamy subway platforms. I love living in New York, but I’m sad that central air is not a…

I’ve only lived in New York for two years, but I feel like I can slip into the “rude New Yorker”role all too easily if I want. There was a group of tourists singing “frere jaques” repeatedly and very loudly on the subway yesterday, and I’ve never wanted to commit mass murder more.