Spring Updates

Okay I totally failed keeping a blog this semester. I actually wrote a really long post around Spring Break - and then somehow it didn't save and I lost the whole thing and the couple hours of work that went with it. Then I got discouraged, and then I got busy, so I guess that deterred me from writing another post.

I'm still pretty busy - but after this weekend I should be 100% with all the work I need to do this semester. Then just three weeks until graduation and I will have my masters! It feels pretty unreal.

Until then I will be job searching and preparing for my move to San Francisco May 21st! I couldn't be more thrilled to be back on the correct coast and a lot closer to everyone I love. This east coast stint was fun for a year - but it's time to be back where I belong. #westcoastbestcoast

I'm also focusing a lot lately (probably as a distraction from homework) researching different methods and plans to pay back my student loans. I'm not in panic mode yet - actually pretty excited to aggressively pay them back. I'm taking some cues from No More Harvard Debt - this Harvard MBA paid off $90k in loans in SEVEN MONTHS! .... considering I'll have about a third of his take home pay, maybe I can manage to do the same thing in 21 months? more research to come on that. And maybe I'll start my own blog! 

“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.” - E.B. White

This quote describes my life so perfectly.

Back in business

After telling myself for the past three years (shit is 2014 already?) that I would consistently write in my paper journal, I'm setting aside these absurd aspirations and getting back in the business of blogging. This blog from study abroad 2010-2011 (best year of my life) is too good not to resurrect so I'm gonna just start it up again. Everyone loves a comeback.

While studying abroad was really the best experience I've ever had and choice I have ever made, the past three years have been (okay it's more like two and a half) pretty great too. Shortly after my last blog post I moved back to LA, became a better, more committed feminist, graduated from college, moved back to France, "found myself" somewhere in there, fell in love, moved across the country and started grad school - which has been going quite well. All in all, not too shabby.

Stay tuned for future angsty posts on nonprofit management, charter schools, Philadelphia, looking for a job, moving back across the country.... and anything else exciting that comes up.