With Christmas around the corner, now is the time to take advantage of good deals on presents for friends and family. This year, I got inspired by my circle of friends and wanted to try to curate a list of products that I felt fit a particular friends' personality, and then make a Christmas lis…

When I informed friends and family that I would be doing my masters degree in Europe for the next 2 years, the comment I heard the most was that I'll be doing a lot of travelling and I thought, naively, that I would probably be going to a different country every other weekend.

Unfortunately, it…

Today marks my one month anniversary of arriving in France, so to celebrate I wanted to pen down some things that I think would have been helpful to know ahead of time. These are all things you tend to discover as you go through the visa process in France, but knowing about them when you first star…

Over the past year, I've been working in an office on a small team, where it was only me and one other assistant as a pair. We joined the team around the same time, and being as this was my first corporate job, my older coworker with more experience tried to "show me the ropes". Unfor…

At the beginning of this month, I was at a "high point". I was studying for 3 to 4 hours a day, working full-time, taking on extra classes outside of work, exercising for 30 minutes to an hour a day, and maintaining my social life by doing calls on Discord every free second I got. For a l…