When I was a kid, I used to read books all the time. I had a library card that I would wear out, with my parents taking my sister and I to the local library so often that I had memorized certain sections. I would borrow multiple books at a time, because I would spend all my time going through each …

Welcome back to another edition of my linguistic study progress! As I showed in my previous post, I'm using a Notion template to keep track of my studies. Feel free to check it out here! This month, I updated the template to now include all labels written in Japanese. This is a minor change but…

I've heard many times that some people are not using Memrise because it 'requires you to pay'. This is totally inaccurate, but many people think this because of the sneaky way Memrise presents their own courses. In this post, I want to show you how you can access Memrise for free, forev…

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…

In 2020 I had a lot of fun playing online games with friends, as I'm sure the rest of the world did being stuck at home.  With my circle, it became something of a routine to meet up in-game for holidays or special events. I thought it might be a fun idea to share a few posts about some games I&…