This week was one of those weeks where nothing particularly exciting happened. There weren’t any stand-out days where something either really great happened, or something absolutely dismal happened that would put a damper on the entire week. I will say that the calmness of this past week was nice, and given the highs and lows of the past few months, the stagnancy of the week was a nice contrast from the usual chaos. Nonetheless, I’m here to find something to write about in an attempt to make this otherwise unmemorable week a memorable one.

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In the past, I’ve been the type of person to have every step of my life planned out, especially when I was just starting college. Over the past five years, there were several occasions where I had to learn the hard way that you can’t always plan your life out step by step, and because of those moments, I’ve learned to accept things as they come, and not be so caught up with reaching huge milestones, or pressuring myself to reach a certain accomplishment by a certain time. But occasionally I still catch myself making mental lists of things I want to do, or goals I want to accomplish at some point in my life. Although I’m not a huge believer in bucket lists, it’s still fun to fantasize about things I think would be cool to accomplish during my life, especially in my twenties. I’ve compiled my own “30 by 30” list, and while I am okay with not accomplishing a lot of these things, it’s still cool to have something tangible that I can look back on and either realize the amazing things I’ve done, or laugh at how ridiculously ambitious I was. In any case, here are 30 things I’d like to do before I turn 30.

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If you frequent this blog every now and again, the fact that I am introverted is not new information (in fact, I’ve written a post detailing everything that goes on inside my head when I’m put in a social situation). I realized that I never wrote a post about things that I indulge in to feed my inner introvert, even though I’ve been meaning to for quite some time now. Hopefully some of these things resonate with my fellow introverts, or introvert-adjacent folk, out there.

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How Wow Pow Chow is back! Again, I apologize for abandoning this when I took a break from blogging. This series was supposed to get me into the habit of posting regularly, but that obviously fell through the cracks really quickly as soon as school started. But here I am, back with this series (at least for now). Here is how this past week panned out for me.

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For those who don’t know, which is probably most people reading this, I went to Catholic school for about ten years of my life – from Kindergarten all the way through 9th grade. Whenever I do happen to mention this to people, which isn’t really that often to be completely honest, I usually get a similar reaction to when I tell people I’m a math major – utter shock and subtle concern. This is probably because the mere mention of Catholic or private schools in general triggers a stream of preconceived notions that aren’t necessarily true. So I, as a product of the Catholic school system, am here to hopefully provide some insight into the world of Catholic education.

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Sitting in a cafe across the street from campus, I went back and read previous “Fall Quarter In Review” posts with the intention of looking for a way to start this year’s fall retrospective post. But as I went through the previous posts, I ended up looking less at how to begin this post, and more at the growth I’ve experienced over the past two years. Looking back, there was a lot of hurt, but with that hurt came a lot of strength – strength founded on my faith – and it is that strength that has been getting me through the toughest of situations. This past Fall quarter wasn’t necessarily as stressful as it was hectic, but a lot of growing took place nonetheless.

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