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When I got sick five years ago, my birthday became synonymous with hospitals. One year I had internal bleeding so bad, I was a millimeter’s measurement from urgently needing blood transfusions. Then there was the year I got a spinal tap and it took six jabs to finally get it right. Another year, I got […]
MoreAmidst the hustle and bustle of another manic Monday (that’s an 80’s song by the Bangles, in case you were wondering), take a moment to pause and give this a read. Today’s World Suicide Prevention Day, and while I think mental health and suicide prevention should be talked about more often and more openly, I’m […]
MoreNo one tells you you’re going to lose your mind. Like, literally. Lately, I’ve felt like I’d forget my head if it wasn’t attached, because studying from early morning until almost midnight every night has started to take its toll on me. I have to pencil in time for exercise, food, and sleep, otherwise time […]
MoreThree weeks ago today I was crying unconsolably. I couldn’t accept or even fathom the idea of my five year relationship being over with a man whom I’d pictured forever with. I loved him with every brittle bone in my body. Every unreliable fiber of my being. All I wanted was him – I could’ve […]
MoreFive years. It would have been five years in a matter of weeks. We were in the midst of designing an engagement ring. He had just asked my dad for permission to marry me. And then everything fell apart. I can’t say it’s all his fault, because that’d be a lie. But these are the […]
MoreYesterday afternoon I was walking through my law school’s parking lot and overheard this kid dressed in a suit (probably not really a kid, but he looked like he was around my age, hence kid) getting mad at a parking attendant. I didn’t really know what the commotion was about, so as he caught up […]
MoreFinals, or as many students commonly refer to them as, “Fuck I Never Actually Learned (this) Shit.” I know I’m not the only one when I say that the time between the last day of classes for the semester and the day of an exam is when I actually learn the material I’ve been taught […]
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